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Learn how to apply creative thinking & strategic design thinking principles to the future of work, enabling you to address hybrid & flexible working with new frameworks, delivered live online. Led by Jeremy Myerson, RCA Professor Emeritus & WORKTECH Academy’s director, this masterclass will equip you with the tools to navigate change right across all […]
Successful international cooperation is crucial for solving global problems, achieving the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals and other challenges. We need the knowledge and skills of many who think and create together. Different cultural backgrounds and perspectives that feed into solutions and ideas are the strength of such projects.The German Design Museum Foundation therefore invites […]
The 13th IXDC2022 International Experience Design Conference, the world's leading user experience innovation event, will be held in Guangzhou Baiyun International Conference Center from November 21 to 27, 2022. The theme of this event is "Sustainability: Digital, Diversity, Safety", will be used to explore the sustainable development of interconnectedness and coexistence of goodwill. Website WDO […]
The conference "Shaping Society! Social Sustainability through Design" focuses on hitherto neglected contexts of social sustainability and spans a wide range of topics such as anti-racism and decolonisation, gender justice and inclusion. All presentations are based on the question "Where is the German design industry today in processes of social sustainability? A one-day conference will […]
This event brings together Christian Bason, Danish Design Center CEO, a political scientist & co-author of a new book called Expand, in conversation with two academics who have pioneered social change through design research – Mariana Amatullo of The New School at Parsons School of Design and Jeremy Myerson of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for […]
This IN SESSION talk will cover intriguing cutting-edge automotive and transport innovation topics around Intelligent Mobility (IM) including how IM differs to traditional automotive approaches, state of the art IM design and research projects and key IM innovation methods and design principles. Through conversation with Intelligent Mobility design academic Dr Jiayu Wu, vehicle and automotive […]
A gathering to share the tools and skills for designing more equitably, and celebrate the contributions, talents, successes, and initiatives of women, nonbinary folks, and allies in the industrial design industry. Now in its 7th consecutive year, the IDSA Women in Design Deep Dive empowers the design community to push towards reaching parity for all gender […]
Explore key human-centred design principles and how to apply practical tools that place the human experience and people at the centre of transport decision-making, led by the RCA’s Intelligent Mobility Design Centre live online. The course will expose you to current and emerging mobility trends and changing user behaviours in key markets through real world […]
Tigullio Design District - TDD is the first international event, dedicated to design and specifically to major themes related to the sea, nautic, outdoor and obviously lifestyle, being developed in the splendid scenery of Gulf of Tigullio, between Genoa and the 5 lands in Liguria, Italy. A glamorous event to make yourself known and to […]
Lasers, Optics and Photonics, Integrated Optoelectronics, Space Photonics, Quantised Light-Matter Interaction, Fibre Optics and Integrated Optics, Laser spectroscopy, Imaging and Holography, Optics and Photonics: Impact on Defence Systems Website
Design is an important driver of innovation, creation, production, consumption and transformation towards a sustainable world. Organized by Hong Kong Design Institute, this event will take place from 3 to 5 May 2023 and bring together sustainability experts from Hong Kong and Switzerland to explore the future of sustainable design through a series of hybrid lectures […]
On the occasion of Berlin Design Week and the 2023 iF Design Awards, WDO and iF Design hosted a panel discussion exploring the topic of Creative Responsibility: Why we still need designers in the age of AI. The event brought together designers and design theorists for a conversation around the possibilities of AI and what this […]
Andreu World will be hosting Works Magazine at their London showroom on Tuesday, 23 May starting at 5pm for a discussion on Designing well-being at work. The panel will be moderated by editor Mick Jordan with the goal to lift the lid on strategies used to foster well-being, productivity, and employee satisfaction in the workplace. […]
POLI.design invites you to participate to its Phygital Open Days: online and in-person appointments that will give participants the opportunity to learn about our educational programmes, the faculty and the facilities on Campus. The presentation days are divided according to the the thematic areas of design. 13 June: Communication and Digital Interaction 27 June: Business […]
Greenhouse is a unique capacity building programme in service and policy design methodologies and tools. It has been created by PDR based on years of research and experience delivering design-driven innovation projects in the public sector. Greenhouse combines a live project, with design tools and techniques training. From 21-23 June 2023, participants will get to […]
In celebration of World Industrial Design Day 2023, meet the design representatives, creators, communicators, practitioners and thinkers at the Studio of Young Designers Association!
“Industry” has changed and is changing; design has also changed and must continue changing. The whole society should have a single focus and that is to avoid dangerous climate change and biodiversity loss – how can design play a role in this current, historical, important times? Help us celebrate #TheFutureWeWant and join the online conversation […]
We are honored to invite you to attend the special interview with Arch Ammar Khammash on an open dialogue about his beginning, practice and his design philosophy & school. Ammar Khammash (born 8 October 1960) is a Jordanian architect, designer and artist. His work is based on the integration of building designs with nature and […]
ServDes, the Service Design and Innovation conference, is the premier research conference for exchanging knowledge within Service Design and service innovation studies. Born as a yearly Nordic conference, ServDes has now become a bi-annual international event with the aim of bringing researchers and practitioners together to discuss, share and evolve the emerging discipline of Service […]
The International Experience Design Conference (IXDC) 2023 will be held in Beijing in August! IXDC 2023 will share cutting-edge experience trends, theories, methods, cases, and practices from around the world in design, technology, and business, leading the development of the experience design industry. The five-day conference plans to invite over 150 global design leaders, technology […]
