9th Integrated Product Development Workshop (Sept 2012, Magdeburg Germany)

Dates: 5-7 September 2012
Location: Magdeberg, Germany
Website: http://www.ipd-workshop.de/
Deadline for abstracts submission: 7 July 2012

The topics of the 9th IPD Workshop are:

Fundamentals of Product Development: Common understanding of IPD / IDE
Teaching IPD/IDE:  Education and Training, Idea Engineering, Didactics and Principles
Internationalisation of IPD/IDE:  Opportunities and Challenges, Student Projects
Research:  Process View and Management, Product Lifecycle Management

As in previous workshops, we keep on focussing mainly on presentations as well as content-related discussions. We especially want to encourage young scholars to present their research results. If you are interested in presenting or in chairing a discussion on a selected topic, please contact us.

Important: We have extended the deadlines for abstract July 7th and full paper submissions to August 3th, 2012.

For more information please contact Ms. Karoline Lötzsch (karoline.loetzsch@ovgu.de) or Mr. Andreas Wünsch (andreas.wuensch@ovgu.de) or visit http://www.ipd-workshop.de/.

4th Intl Conf on Research into Design (ICoRD’13): Global Product Development (Jan 2013, Madras India)

Dates: 7-9 January 2013
Location: IIT Madras, Chennai, India
Contact:  icord2013@pallava.iitm.ac.in
Deadline for submission of abstracts: UPDATED² 6 June 2012
Website: http://www.icord13.iitm.ac.in/ 

ICoRD’13 is the fourth in a series of conferences intended to be held every two years in India to bring together the international community from diverse areas of design practice, teaching and research, to: showcase cutting edge research about design to the stakeholders; aid the ogoing process of developing and extending the collective vision through emerging research challenges and questions; and provide a platform for interaction, collaboration and development of the community in order for it to take up the challenges to realize the vision. The conference is intended for all stakeholders of design, and in particular for its practitioners, researchers, teachers and students. The theme for ICoRD’13 is Global Product Development.

NordDesign 2012 (Aug 2012, Aalborg Denmark)

Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Dates: August 22-24, 2012
Website: http://www.norddesign2012.aau.dk/
Deadline for abstracts submissions: 1 Feb 2012

The conference is organized in cooperation with the Design Society and complies to the Design Society quality standards with respect to review process, publication etc. The conference venue will be the newly renovated powerplant “Nordkraft”.  Nordkraft is an exceptional initiative combining various cultural offerings. Keynotes will be given by LEGO, Bang & Olufsen, and Siemens Wind Power.

The conference topic is design in a wide context:

• Integrated Product Development,
• Engineering Design,
• Industrial Design and Conceptualisation.

2nd Intl Workshop on Science Fiction Prototyping for Technology Innovation (July 2011, Nottingham/UK)

Dates: 25-26 July, 2011
Location: Nottingham, UK
Deadline for Papers: March 28, 2011
Website: http://www.creative-science.org/

This workshop will explore the use of science fiction as a means to motivate and direct research into new technologies and consumer products. It does this by creating science fiction stories grounded in current science and engineering research that are written for the explicit purpose of acting as prototypes for people to explore a wide variety of futures.

We we are inviting short imaginative fictional stories (prototypes) of no more than 12 pages (and presentations of 20 minutes).

The workshop is running in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE’11.

CIPED 2011: An agenda for design (Oct 2011, Lisbon)

Dates: 10-12 October 2011
Location: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal
Website: http://www.ciped6.fa.utl.pt/
Submission Deadline: 15 April 2011

After five successful editions in Brazil, the 6th CIPED gains a new dimension with its first edition on European soil, being sponsored / organized by CIAUD – Center for Research in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design of the FA-UTL.

The congress will take place from 10 to 12 October 2011 in Lisbon, in the auditorium of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, with the motto “An Agenda for Design”, seeking to assert itself as an international landmark in the dissemination of research in the main areas of Design (Communication, Product and fashion) but also Ergonomic Design, Inclusive Design and Urbanity.

The 6th CIPED will feature distinguished speakers for each of the six scientific areas, fields for which are also accepted oral and poster, approved by the Scientific Committee on the system of Double-blind-review. The communications will be accepted and published in the Abstract book and, the best ones, will be published in full length as Proceedings.

1st Intl Conf on Smart Design (Nov 2011, Nottingham UK)

Dates: 22nd to 24th November 2011
Deadline for abstracts submission: UPDATED: 29 April 2011

Conference Website: www.ntu.ac.uk/smartdesign <http://www.ntu.ac.uk/smartdesign>
Conference e-mail address: smartconference@ntu.ac.uk
Conference venue: www.nottinghamconferencecentre.com
Conference Fax: +44 (0)115 8486140

The 1st International Conference on Smart Design will take place in Nottingham, UK, from the 22nd to 24th November 2011. All papers included in the conference will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer, the conference papers will also be available as an e-book.

MAKE/DO Design Inquiry (Jun 2011, Maine USA)

DesignInquiry 2011: MAKE/DO, Vinalhaven, ME.
For an application, email info@designinquiry.net

DesignInquiry 2011: MAKE/DO, will investigate the idea that all design in some sense requires improvisation, and that no design is really the work of a single author, even if it seems that way. It will celebrate designs that produce something out of nothing, and design as setting the rules of a game in which time-budget-material-context-user are partners and playmates. We will ask whether we can design in such a way that encourages people to make do–to make our thing do something new.

Hacking, Tinkering, Crafts & Inventive Leisure Practices (March 2011, China)

Hacking, Tinkering, Crafts & Inventive Leisure Practices
A workshop at CSCW 2011, Hangzhou, China, March 19-23 2011.
http://hackingworkshop.com
Deadline for submission: 19 December 2010

Hacking, tinkering, crafts and Inventive Leisure Practices (ILP) are a growing source of innovation and creativity, and are increasingly important sites of technological collaboration.  These practices take many forms: hacking commoditized products, building electronics, knitting, crafting, carpentry, writing open-source software and much, much more.

18th Intl Product Development Management Conf (Jun 2011, Delft)

Deadline for 500 word abstracts: 5 November 2010
Website: http://www.eiasm.org/frontoffice/event_announcement.asp?event_id=670

The 18th International Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) will be held from June 5-7, 2011 at the Delft University of Technology in the historic town of Delft in The Netherlands. For the first time in the history of this conference, it will move to a Design School; the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. This faculty is the largest university-based design school in the world with more than 2,000 students enrolled in the bachelor degree or in one of the three masters programs that the faculty offers

The special theme for our conference will be “Innovate through Design”. This means that we welcome papers on the topics of design thinking and design management along with the more common innovation management and new product development themes for the IPDM Conference. We plan to hold a special exhibition highlighting innovative product designs that have been developed at the faculty in the hall in which we will take refreshments. Special key notes will be delivered by famous designers and by high profile academics.

Full details available at the website.

Conference leaflet available on :
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3144742/IPDM%20conference%20booklet%20final.pdf

DPPI-11: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (Jun 2011, Milano)

22 – 25 June 2011
How Can Design Research serve Industry?
Design visions, tools and knowledge for industry
Deadline for submission: 30 January 2011

In these days a mantra for companies and institutions seems to be, almost mandatorily, the need to become design-oriented, in order to increase their capability to build value, generate innovation and increase market shares as well as profits. This mantra, more often than not, comes with another one: design innovation is putting the user at the center of the project. Research on pleasurable products and interfaces is playing an important role in this debate elaborating and formalizing new knowledge on people (end users, value co-producers, etc.) and their needs, expectations, beliefs, values, desires; and suggesting the possibility to exploit user centered design in sectors and markets that are not commonly thought as being inherent its field of research. This has produced a significant amount of knowledge, mainly through vast experimentation, whereas less has been said on how to integrate this knowledge in industry. Apparently there is a disconnection between research on user centered design and pleasurability, and design practices inside industry, especially in SMEs contexts. Given these premises, it would be very interesting to investigate how this research can be integrated into industry, and to discuss it in relation to other approaches to design innovation.