April 27 – May 1, 2016, Nottingham, UK
Hosted by Nottingham Trent University

In this Place addresses how the importance of ‘place’ impacts the way in which we generate ideas, create and design. It looks at how we transmit and circulate ideas, ideologies and knowledge between geographical locations, historical moments, objects, images, actions and cultural contexts.

November 21 – 24, 2016 Hong Kong, China
Hosted by the Hong Kong Design Institute

Cumulus Hong Kong 2016 seeks to explore the openness of design, namely the opening up of design process and design for openness. Six different tracks are also set to explore the new purposes of design.