The Nineteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices covers topics such as:
- Design in Society
- Health and Safety - public welfare in design practice
- Design in Social Policy - planning and politics
- Human Systems and Cultural Processes - globalization and the design professions
- Design as Business - Markets for design and designing for markets
- Design for Diversity - culture, gender, and sexual orientation
- Design Without Designers - everyday, amateur, organic and living designs
- The ends of Design - pragmatic, aesthetic, and emancipatory
- Design Politics - making technologies, spaces and institutions more responsive to human needs
- Values, Culture and Knowledge Systems - the role of perspective, subjectivity, and identity
- The Humanistic and Technological -tensions and synergies
- Niche Markets - working with diverse clients and users
- Cross-cultural Encounters - working on diverse and global design teams
- Design Education
- Problem Solving - recognition procedures, hypothesis development, reasoning processes, solution testing
- Design Thinking - cognitive modes and learning styles
- Innovation and Creativity - meanings in theory and practice
- Residues - learning from our historical and contemporary design experiences
- Professional Stances - acquiring the designer`s skills, capacities and attitudes
- Cases - empirical studies of design practices
- High and Low Theory - every day and theorizing the empirical
- Methods of Observation - frames of interpretation and criteria for assessment of design
- Design Pedagogies - teaching and learning in the design professions
- Conceiving Design - complexity, heterogeneity and holism
- Points of Comparison - precedent, analogy and metaphor in the design process
- Educational Designs -teacher as an instructional designer
- Visual Design
- Viewpoint, Perspective, Interest - designer as agent or advocate
- Media and Mediation - singular and universal visual grammars
- Forms for Communicating Design - photography, film, animation, graphic design, and typography
- Negotiating Authenticity and Authority - power of continuity and change
- Modeling and Representation - graphic, symbolic, logical, and mathematical
- New Media and Digital Aesthetics - the evolving avant-garde
- Fine Arts - illustration, photography, film and video
- Synesthesia or Crossing Representational Modes - language, image, space, and medium
- Information Systems and Architectures - interface design, digital, software, and social media design
- Visual Economies - advertising, marketing and logos
- Copyright, Patents, and Intellectual Property - proprietary and the commons, commercial and in the public domain
- Public and Professional Understandings - the role of the designer as communicator
- Designed Objects
- Design Narratives - stories and sense making in the design process
- People and Artifacts - exploring uses and usability
- Embodied and Disembodied - ethnographies of design
- Cultural Studies - difference, diversity, and multiculturalism in design
- Function and From - the politics of Industrial design
- Material and Immaterial - mediating ideas and materials
- Science and Technology in Design - critical analysis of techno-determinism
- Sociology of Design - decorative arts, folk movements, and communities of practice
- Co-designed Process and Objects - designing with users and communities
- Media Ecologies and Object Orientation - designed artifacts and processes as learning experiences
- Universal Design and Access - measuring participatory design systems
- Close to Customers - design as dialogue
- Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
- Life Cycles - designing products and services for the longer term
- Common Spaces - ecological footprints, atmospheres, biospheres, eco-spheres
- Standards and Regulations - implicit, explicit and social certifications
- Relations of human and Ecological Value - static or dynamic
- Nature Designed - parks, wilderness, and elementary ecologies
- Planning the Urban - cross-disciplinary perspectives on cities of the future
- On Sustainability and Eco-Design - design in an environmental, economic, social, and cultural setting
- Understanding Human Impacts - natural resource use and environmental footprints
- Scenario Planning - designing for alternative futures
- Interdisciplinary Ecological Practices - working with scientists, social scientists, and economists
- Documenting Sustainable Design Process - methodologies, heuristics, and routines
- Making and Breaking Codes - regulation in the design industries
- Design Management and Professional Practice
- Common Knowledges - sharing insights, research, theories, and designs in communities of practice
- Designing Design - from conceptualization to specification
- Professionalism and its Trajectories - narrowing specialisms and/or multiskilling
- Multidisciplinary and Cross-Professional - approaches to design
- Business of Speed - the economics and pragmatics of rapid delivery and design alongside construction
- Working with Research - design practitioners as researchers or users of research
- Democratization of Design and Public Accountability - consultation and consensus building
- Logics of Collaboration - interactivity, responsiveness, and reflexivity in communities of practice
- Expertise as facilitation - designers who know what they might not know
- Evolutionary Design - collaborations over time
- User-Centered or Client-Centered Project Management - the changing role of the designer as advocate
- Designing Projects - planning, management, and project afterlife
The Nineteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices will be held in Singapore as well as online on 24-27 Feb 2025.