Call for papers - Design Research Society 2018

Limerick, Ireland, 25-28 June 2018\

Designing is increasingly taking place in shifting territorial, economic, and policy contexts. DRS2018 will explore emergent themes at the intersections of design research, design practice, design education and design policy. We ask what are the ways in which design research can catalyse progressive change in this emerging world?

As well as DRS2018 Call for Papers, we also seek submissions for the PhD by Design event, Workshop sessions and Conversation sessions. Please see the website for the Call for Conversations, Call for Workshops, and PhD by Design.

DRS2018 invites new and challenging paper submissions from any area or discipline of design research.  We embrace research looking at and using design in the widest possible sense with interdisciplinary work and work responding to the conference themes particularly encouraged.

Theme tracks for DRS2018

In addition to an open call for papers, there are a number of theme tracks to which authors are encouraged to submit their research papers. The Open Track is an open call for papers

in the broader context of the DRS2018 conference theme 'Catalyst: Design as a Catalyst for Change’.

DRS2018 Themes

Data, Technology and Society

• Designing with Data, Democratisation through Data
• Design, Technology and Society

Ethics and Values

• Ethics, Values and Designer Responsibility
• Philosophical tools in Design Research: From empirical turn to practical turn

Multiple Voices

• Design, Research and Feminism(s)
• Not just from the centre - multiple voices in design
• Designing social innovation in cultural diversity and sensitivity

Design for Change

• Designing for Transitions
• Deepening Systemics and Complexity in Design Research

Tools and Practices in Design

• Tools of Design
• Physical and Digital Materials in Creative Design Practice
• The (Act of) Drawing in Design (Research)

DRS Special Interest Groups

• Experiential Knowledge (EKSig)
• Objects, Practices, Experiences and Networks (OPEN Sig): Material-Enabled Changes in Design Research and Practice​
• Inclusive Design (Inclusive Sig)
• Sustainable Design (Sustainability Sig)
• Design for Behaviour Change (Behaviour Change Sig)
• Design for Tangible, Embedded and Networked Technologies (TENTSig)

Design Research for Wellbeing, Health and Happiness (SIGWELL)

• Design for Subjective Wellbeing
• Health and Wellbeing by Design

Design Pedagogy (PedSIG)

• Design Education for the General Public
• Design Education: Catalysing Design Capability

Design Innovation Management (DIMSIG)

• How Organisations Employ Design as Vehicle for Change
• The Role of Design in Open Innovation

Submission

Your paper will need to be between 5000 and 6000 words (maximum) in length excluding abstract and references using formatting applied in this template. Full papers must be submitted by midnight 6 November 2017.

More information at the DRS2018 website.