Design Research Society

DRS Council Elections 2013 – VOTE NOW!

Are you a paid-up member of the DRS?

This is your opportunity to influence the leadership of your society, by voting in new members to the DRS council. Each year a number of places become available on the council, and this year there are 8 places available.

10 DRS members have put themselves forward to be council members. The elections are held by email, and you can vote now, until 12 noon GMT on Monday 10^th June 2013. The results will be announced at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 17^th June 2013 at Loughborough University, UK (see http://www.designresearchsociety.org/doc-events/2013/drs-agm-2013.pdf).

DRS AGM & Symposium 2013

agm-symp-logo You are warmly invited to attend the DRS 2013 AGM and Symposium at Loughborough Design School, UK on Monday 17th June 2013. The agenda is available HERE. This year's symposium theme is 'Value of Design Research'. We are fortunate to have secured three prominent design researchers to address this year's symposium theme.

Symposium: ‘Good Things and Bad Things’ Nottingham June 2013

Symposium: ‘Good Things and Bad Things’ will be held in Nottingham on 10th/ 11th June 2013.
The good/ bad things in question include guns, things in questionable taste, immaterial things, sportified things, criminal things… among others.

Design4Health 2013 European conference

Exclusive Discount for DRS members. The 2nd European Conference on Design4Health takes places at Sheffield Hallam University, UK on Wed 3rd – Fri 5th July 2013. This year, DRS members can take advantage of an exclusive discounted rate, saving almost 25%. The conference will explore creative approaches and perspectives to enhance understanding, experience and improve efficiency of health and wellbeing services and products.

Verena Ziegler DRS Student Bursary Report 2012/13

DRS student member Vera Ziegler received a DRS Student Bursary to support her research into Auckland University of Technology (AUT) titled “Hybrid Knowledge Production through Epistemic Objects – towards Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries”. The report on this project is available here.

About DRS

The Design Research Society is a multi-disciplinary learned society for the design research community worldwide.The DRS was founded in 1966 and facilitates an international design research network in around 40 countries.
Read the Welcome message from the President of the Design Research Society, Professor Nigel Cross.
DRS is a founder member of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).

DRS 2014 Conference

Design Research Society Conference 2014
June 16-19, 2014 Umeå, Sweden

Välkommen! We welcome you to join us for the Design Research Society 2014 conference in Umeå, Sweden.

100 AND GROWING: The DRS Student Membership

Just a few years ago, we launched a Student Membership grade alongside ordinary and Fellowship levels. It’s proved a great success with numbers growing at a faster rate than any other level of membership – numbers of student members have now reached 100, accounting for more than 1 in 10 of the total DRS membership.

Our aim was simple: to support and encourage the growing number of postgraduate research students interested in design worldwide.

EKSIG conference July 2013

International Conference EKSIG 2013: Knowing Inside Out - experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship organised by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July 2013 at Loughborough University, UK

Andreas Peter DRS Student Bursary Report 2012/13

DRS student member Andreas Peter received a DRS Student Bursary to fund a series of controlled experiments conducted at Central Saint Martin‘s College of Art and Design in London to better understand correlations between prototyping materials and design discussions. The report is available here.

Design Studies Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Design Studies Award, for the best paper published in the journal. The award is to be made to Shraddha Sangelkar, Nicholas Cowen and Daniel McAdams (Texas A&M University, USA) for their paper User activity – product function association based design rules for universal products, published in Vol. 33, Number 1 (January 2012) Pages 85–110; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2011.06.002

See the article here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X11000408

IASDR 2013: TOKYO

The 5^th World Conference on Design Research, organised by IASDR (the International Association of Societies of Design Research), of which the DRS is a founding member organisation, will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on August 26 - 30, 2013.
www.iasdr2013.jp/

Doctoral Colloquium
A new category of paper submission has been set. Submission to the Doctoral Colloquium is independent from IASDR2013. Doctoral candidates can submit a paper to this in addition to the regular/invited session. http://www.iasdr2013.jp/doctoral.html

New DRS Fellow

We are pleased to announce the election of a new DRS Fellow: Professor Tracy Bhamra, Professor of Sustainable Design, Loughborough University, UK.

Conferment of the title of Fellow of the Design Research Society acknowledges an established record of achievement in design research, and attainment of peer recognition as a researcher of professional standing and competence. Members of DRS can apply for election to Fellow; see 'Becoming a DRS Fellow' in the members menu item on the left.

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