The Design Society is an international non-governmental, non-profit organisation whose members share a common interest in design.The Design Society is a charitable body, registered in Scotland under the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, number SC 031694. The DesignSociety strives to contribute to a broad understanding of all aspects of design and to promote the use of results and knowledge for the good of humanity. The Design Society's flagship event is the biennial International Conference in Engineering Design (ICED).
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History
The Design Society was founded in 2000 building on the previous activities of the Workshop Design Konstruktion (WDK) group, especially the organisation of the ICED series of conferences held since 1981. The WDK group was an informally constituted international association based on a common interest in engineering design and founded in the early 1980s on the inspiration of Professors Vladimir Hubka, Mogens Myrup Andreasen, and Umberto Pighini.
The Design Society took over activities and responsibilities of WDK in 2001. The Design Society was constituted as a Charity under Scottish law and was incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee and Not Having a Share Capital under UK law (Companies Act, 2006).
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Organization
Membership in The Design Society is open to persons with recognised design qualifications and experience in the fields of design research, design practice, design management, and design education. The Society is governed by a Board of Management which is responsible for managing all business of the Society. The Board of Management comprises five members of the Society elected democratically by the Society's members at General Meetings, and officers include including the President, Vice President and Secretary.
The Design Society also has an Advisory Board that advises, guides and supports the Board of Management (BM) in developing and furthering the objectives of the Society. The Advisory Boards' members are elected democratically by the Society's Members at General Meetings, which take place every two years during the ICED conferences.
The current serving officers (2017-2019) are Panos Y. Papalambros (President), Timothy McAloone (Vice-President), Claudia Eckert (Secretary), Georges Fadel (BM Member), Gaetano Cascini (BM Member), and Yukari Nagai (Advisory Board Chair).
Activities
Conferences
ICED: International Conference on Engineering Design
Biennial Flagship event of The Design Society
E&PDE: Engineering and Product Design Education
Organized by The Design Society Special Interest Group(DESCI) and Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and a host university(listed in table below by year)
The conference is a forum to discuss current educational issues and the nature of design education.
International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC)
Promoted by the Design Creativity Special Interest group of the Design Society to discuss latest findings in the nature and potential of design creativity.
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Design for X (DFX)
Dependency and Structure Modeling (DSM)
International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD)
International Conference on Advanced Design Research and Education (ICADRE)
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Journal
The Design Society, in collaboration with Cambridge University Press, publishes the journal Design Science. The journal welcomes possible collaboration. The published articles are on the topics listed below and open access (published under a Creative Commons licence)
Topics
The Design Society's members are actively engaged in a wide range of design topics, as reflected in its Special Interests Groups (SIGs) and its conference publications. These include the topics below (highlighted for ICED 2019 in Delft, Netherlands):
Design for healthcare
- Design of medical devices
- Design for mental health and wellbeing
- Design for patient-centred care
- Designing e-health systems
- Design-driven innovations in healthcare
- User-centered design in healthcare
Design for sustainability
- Design for a circular economy
- Design for product lifetime optimization
- Design for sustainable life/ consumption
- Eco-design
- Design for the environment
- Design for cleaner production
- Environmental and sustainability assessment
Data-driven design
- Data collection and knowledge management for big data
- Designing with sensory data
- Design statistics
- Big data mining
- Modelling consumer preferences/ behaviour
- Machine learning
- Semantic data processing
- Engineering ontologies
Next generation systems
- Industry 4.0
- Designing of Cyber-Physical Systems
- Embedded Systems Design
- Design for the Internet of Everything
- Systems Engineering, Complex Systems Design
- Engineering of Robotics and Mechatronic Systems
- Design for Autonomous Agents
- Artificial Intelligence and Awareness
- Smart Engineering, Smart/self-adapting Systems
- Intelligent materials
Design and mobility
- Design for E-mobility
- Lightweight design and efficiency
- Infrastructure and support system design
Design methodology
- Researching of designs and design methods
- Design theories and approaches
- Theory-driven design
- Experiments in design
Design processes
- Product development models and strategies
- Design process modelling and management
- Product innovation engineering
- Industrial design
Design Management
- Organisational understanding of product development
- Design of organizational processes
- Design of workspaces to manage product development
- Market and business implications
- Innovation strategies and innovation management
- Design practice: Best practice, industry practice (cases)
System Design
- Product and system modelling
- Product architectures, structural complexity
- Platform design, modularization, product family design
- Robust Design, Tolerance Management
- Design for Interfaces, Human-Machine Interfaces
- System of Systems Design
Service Design
- Product-service systems design
- Planning for service co-production
- Design services in innovation networks
- Design for service delivery
- Design tools and -techniques for service design
Design methods and tools
- Design for X, design to X (quality, sustainability, costs, ...)
- Design tactics and methods
- Requirement management, user orientation, user integration
- Evaluation methods
- Modelling and simulation methods
- Usage and integration of supportive technologies
- Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality
- Digital Engineering
- Additive Manufacturing, 3D/4D Printing
Human behavior in design
- Designers' thinking and skills
- Teamwork in design
- Collaborative and participatory design
- Design communication
- Representation of design information
- Design for emotion and experience
- Decision Making
- Emotional Engineering
Design creativity
- Creative design processes
- Cognitive processes in design creativity
- Supporting design creativity
- Assessing creativity
Design education and lifelong learning
- Teaching examples and experiments
- Education experiences, plans, and visions
- Training in design (academic and industrial)
- Awareness of societal consequences
References
External links
- The Design Society
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