the 4th International Conference for Design Education researchers
The DRS/CUMULUS/DESIGN-ED conference
June 27th – June 30th 2017 London UK
Abstracts by February 24, 2017

Learn X Design 2017 will explore the “the allure of the digital and beyond”, drawing academics from around the globe to London for a four-day discussion on themes including research in design education, E learning and design, wearables and VR.

Hosted by Design School Kolding, Denmark
May 30 – June 2, 2017

How do we REDO our design education, our design practice, and our design research so that our knowledge comes to have an actual effect on how we live, from the micro level of the domestic to the macro level of politics? How do we train our students to become DOers and to confront the challenges that face the world in terms of social inclusion, climate/environment, and economic growth? How do we impact our disciplines and beyond?

Open Design for E-very-thing
Date: 21-24 November 2016
Hosted by Hong Kong Design Institute

Cumulus Hong Kong 2016 is an international conference for designers, researchers, students and citizens to be a part of a series of events concerning Open Design. Events include international design conference, round table Cumulus working group meetings, design movie festival, exhibitions, design tours and more.

October 17 – 18, 2015 Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Organized by KSDS, ADADA and Cumulus

The goal of this event is to create a forum to explore meaningful changes in design profiles and convergence of design disciplines.

June 3 – 7, 2015 Milan, Italy
Hosted by Politecnico di Milano

The conference aims to investigate how design comes out of the interaction between a practice, which seeks to change the state of things, and culture, which makes sense of this change.

June 28 – 30, 2015 Chicago, IL, USA
Hosted by School of the Art Institute of Chicago SAIC

The 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Organized by the DESIGN-ED Coalition in partnership with Design Research Society and Cumulus.

October 23 – 24, 2014 Cracow, Poland
Hosted by Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow

International Conference under the umbrella of Cumulus to celebrate the 50 years of the Faculty of Industrial Design.

September 22 – 24, 2014 Johannesburg, South Africa
Hosted by Greenside Design Center (GDC) & Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA), University of Johannesburg

The Cumulus Conference to be hosted by GDC and FADA seeks to bring discussions around the role art and design can and should play in sustainable social advancement, particularly in the context of the African Continent.

May 8 – 10, 2014 Aveiro, Portugal

Hosted by the University of Aveiro

The conference sought to bring designers, artists, musicians, theory-based researchers and educators together, in order to develop interdisciplinary discussions.

November 7 – 9, 2013 Dublin, Ireland
Hosted by the National College of Art and Design

We propose that in the deepest recession since the great depression of the 1930s we need to turn the modernist mantra ‘less is more’ on its head as the reduced budgets of governments, business and people demand ‘more for less’, and develop a ‘New Deal’ for design.