Congress on October 16 – 20, 2017
Proposals by August 6, 2017

The Call is open to scholars, practitioners and concerned parties from all spectrums of the design disciplines, including: architecture, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning and interstitial or hybrid practices.

FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel, Switzerland
March 8 – 10, 2018
Deadline for applications: August 15, 2017

The Second SDN Design Research Winter Summit 2018, hosted by the FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel/Switzerland, is calling for contributions that address the outlined topics and covering the full field of both practice-led and theoretical-historical design research. Particularly desirable are small-scale projects targeting real-world impact, which are committed to the conference themes and whose authors are willing to reflect critically on these projects during the conference.

Hosted by Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru, India
November 20 – 23, 2017
Submission deadline EXTENDED: July 20, 2017

In accordance with the general theme “Letters to the Future” we would like to offer three tracks for the letters that can be submitted for this conference.

Aalto ARTS, Finland
November 29 – 30, 2017
Deadline for full papers: June 15, 2017

The theme of the conference addresses the agency of the artist-researcher as a catalyst that challenges established ideas and produces new thinking through artistic and practice-led research.

September 21 – 22, 2017, Plymouth, UK
Abstracts by May 22, 2017

Making Futures is a research platform exploring contemporary craft and maker movements as ‘change agents’ within 21st century society. Making Futures invites proposals for papers and presentations that address the main conference topic, thematic fields and workshops

DRS Conference Limerick, Ireland
June 25 – 28, 2018

DRS2018: Catalyst builds on the future-focused thinking orientation of DRS2016. The overarching theme is Design as a Catalyst for Change and within that we explore themes relating to the intersections of design research, practice and policy.

Swinburne University of Technology and Sheffield-Hallam University
December 4 – 7, 2017, Melbourne, Australia
Abstract submission by June 30, 2017

The Program Committee invites abstract submissions for consideration in the Design4Health 2017 Conference program. The conference themes are: Technology and Health, Future Self, Environment and Self, Innovations in Practice, Processes and Systems, Education/Methods.

May 18 – 20, 2017 Dusseldorf, Germany
Hosted by Hochschule Düsseldorf

The conference will explore the consequences of the return to realism for the practice and theories of design and designers. Is design primarily realistic or antirealistic? Is it the subjective opposite, which has been added to the objective reality?

University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, USA
Submission deadline extended till March 18, 2017
Conference dates: October 31 – November 3, 2017

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) invites educators and practitioners to attend and participate in the 2017 International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) Conference to discuss the array of possibilities for design and design research in the century ahead.

Workshop proposal deadline: March 1, 2017
Hong Kong, China, June 7 – 9, 2017

The DMA conference 2017 will be hosted by the School of Design School at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.