Design Research Society

SIGWELL

Special Interest Group on Wellbeing and Happiness (SIGWELL)

Welcome to the Special Interest Group on Wellbeing and Happiness!

The SIG is led by Prof Richard Coles, and focuses on bringing together designers, design researchers, landscape architects and others who aim to improve personal and societal wellbeing through design in the broadest sense.

Please send all correspondence to Prof Richard Coles via e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

This website is under construction. New content will be added to these pages soon.

AGM & Symposium

You are invited to the 2013 DRS AGM & Symposium at Loughborough Design School, 17th June 2013. This year's theme is 'Value of Design Research' with presentations from three prominent design researchers.

DRS Elections!

Time to nominate for DRS Council! Deadline for nomination forms is 12noon GMT 22 May 2013 to Rebecca Cain at R.Cain.1@warwick.ac.uk

IASDR Doctoral Colloquium

Doctoral Colloquium at IASDR 2013, Tokyo

The Doctoral Colloquium at IASDR 2013 is a special forum where doctoral students and candidates meet with other doctoral students and internationally leading design researchers to discuss and obtain feedback on their work-in-progress dissertation research.

Short paper and supporting document submission: extended to May 20

Notification of acceptance: May 31
Submission of final paper: June 28
Doctoral colloquium: 9:00 - 17:00 August 26

http://www.iasdr2013.jp/doctoral.html

DRS 2012 PROCEEDINGS

DRS 2012 Proceedings
AVAILABLE! Click Proceedings in left menu.

EKSIG 2013 conference

Knowing Inside Out - experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseur-ship International Conference 4-5 July 2013, Loughborough University, UK.

DRS 2014 Conference

DRS 2014Conference
June 16-19, 2014 Umeå, Sweden