Focus on ‘Typographic Dialogues: Local-Global’
28 Feb – 1 March 2020, Beirut, Lebanon
Deadline for abstract submission: December 20, 2019

Typography Day will be organized for the Thirteenth time on 28th, 29th February and 1st March 2020 at Beirut, Lebanon with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.

March 30-April 1, 2020 Pittsburg, USA
Proposals are due December 1, 2019.

For the Spring 2020 AIGA Conference in Pittsburgh (March 30–April 1), the Design Educators Community Steering Committee invites educators, industry professionals, and graduate students to submit proposals to the Design Education Symposium that address the topic of Bridging Digital and Physical Experiences, which is one of the trends defined in AIGA’s Design Futures.

VIA Design, VIA University College
September 10-11, 2020 Herning, Denmark
Abstract submission by November 18, 2019

The theme of the 2020 conference is “The Value of Design & Engineering Education in a Knowledge Age”.

February 7-9, 2020 IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India
in partnership with World University of Design and PSG College of Technology

August 11-14, 2020 Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
CfP deadline: December 9, 2019

The Design Research Society biennial conference DRS2020. The conference theme is Synergy, a powerful force where voices in design research become stronger together.

Application deadline: November 30, 2019

New Date
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Cumulus Roma Conference will be held in early June 2021 (instead of June 2020). The exact dates will be announced by September.

Early June, 2021 Rome, Italy
Hosted by Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Architecture and School of Industrial Design

Design Culture(s) is investigating not simply on the concept of culture as a monolithic expression of a specific knowledge that reflects on itself, but as the product of an investigation that is open to many different “Cultures” which are emerging and revolving around it in society, in the places and in history.

ReVeDA (Research in Design, Art, and Media) Cumulus Working Group
Materials for the next Cumulus Think Tank publication

Deadline for Submission(s): August 26, 2019

Hosted by Universidad de Caldas
Manizales, Colombia June 15-19 2020
Submission Deadline for Full papers + Plurilingual track: September 1, 2019

The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) has a long history in bringing together research concerned with the direct involvement of people in co-design, development, implementation, and appropriation activities around technologies, spaces, artefacts, and services.

Artifact: Journal of Design Practice is an Open Access journal that publishes double-blind peer-reviewed design research examining the nature of, developments in, and understandings of design practices.