As the problems and opportunities facing our organisations are becoming more open,
complex, dynamic and networked, professionals are turning towards the designing …

In September 2019 Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University was
honoured to host the bi-annual conference of the International Association of Societies of …

The third DRS conference tentSIG section builds on at least two of themes explored in 2018,
and in many ways extends the theme of this year's conference, Synergy, beyond any simple …

This collection stems from the International Association of Societies of Design Research
(IASDR) congress in 2021, promoting the research of design in its many fields of application …

During the last decades design has been expanded as a discipline and conquered new
territories. This expansion has been the cause and also the consequence of an evolution in …

Abstract Design academics have advocated the need for design to re-orient towards more
sustainable outcomes and for a change in the role of design in society since the start of the …

This paper builds upon the existing concept of an everyday designer as a non-expert
designer who carries out design activities using available resources in a given environment …

In Hong Kong of the year 2017, a new academic community convened to attend to pressing
issues regarding design as source of innovation. The inaugural Academy for Design …

BMW Group is a sustainability leader in the automotive world and has been consistently
named at the top of the S&P Dow Jones Sustainable Index rankings for over two decades …

After almost three years since the Covid outbreak, the structural damages the pandemic
wreaked are finally becoming more evident than the death toll. A growing crisis that affects …