13th Intl Design Conf (May 2014, Dubrovnik Croatia)

Dates: 19-22 May 2014
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Website: www.designconference.org
Deadline for submissions: 9 December 2013

The forthcoming DESIGN 2014 Conference will continue to be a great event founded on tradition and excellence. We live in a networked world communicating and exchanging ideas by emails, virtual meetings and social networks. Opportunity to meet colleagues face-to-face, to exchange and share new ideas in implausible discussions, to build a personal network in a direct contact is the invaluable opportunity of DESIGN conference. We invite high-quality submissions for DESIGN 2014 covering substantial, original and previously unpublished research. Applied, theoretical and results-oriented papers from both academia and industry, based on thorough analysis or argumentation, will be considered for the conference programme. Submissions should fit into one of proposed conference topics. Submission instructions will be available from June 15th 2013 on the DESIGN conference web portal: www.designconference.org.

TOPICS:
* DESIGN THEORY AND RESEARCH
* DESIGN ORANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
* DESIGN PROCESSES
* DESIGN METHODS
* DESIGN SUPPORT TOOLS
* DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE
* HUMAN BEHAVIOUR AND DESIGN
* DESIGN INNOVATION
* ENGINEERING DESIGN PRACTICE
* SYSTEM ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
* SOCIOTECHNICAL ISSUES IN DESIGN
* INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Important Dates:
* Online submission will open on July 15, 2013.
* Full paper submission deadline: December 09, 2013
* Final acceptance of papers: February 28, 2014
* Publish ready papers: March 21, 2014
* Final conference program: April 2014

Further information available on DESIGN 2014 web site: http://www.designconference.org

PROGRAMME CHAIRS

Steve Culley, University of Bath, United Kingdom;
Udo Lindemann, Technical University Munich, Germany;
Tim McAloone, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;
Christian Weber, Technical University Ilmenau, Germany;
Dorian Marjanovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia

ORGANISATION

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb
The Design Society

Organising Secretariat Address
DESIGN 2014 Secretariat
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture
10000 Zagreb, I. Lucica 5, CROATIA
Tel: (+385 1) 61 68 432, Fax: (+385 1) 61 68 284

E-mail: design2014@fsb.hr
Internet: www.designconference.org

About Fil Salustri
I'm a design methodologist and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada. Adjectives that describe me include: secular humanist, meritocrat, and long-winded. Some people call me a positivist too, as if that were a bad thing. Go figure. My real home page is http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil.

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