Conference Agenda

The new journal [with the working title Designing] builds on the legacy and expands on the vision of Design Studies, using the break with Elsevier to revitalise and rethink the journal to embrace a wider range of subjects, approaches, and disciplines whilst remaining focused on the process of design. Designing will cover all aspects of studying the activity of design including design practices, design methods, design in disciplines, design thinking, design theory, technologies for design, histories of designing and design research, research through design, pedagogies of design, collaborative design, and diversities relating to design. Designing will also embrace emerging fields of design activity, including financial design, prompt design, circular design, bio design, feminist design, decolonial design, and more-than-human design. Studies will tend to be empirical- and evidence-based, though well-argued theoretical, critical, and philosophical papers will be welcomed. All submissions will need to demonstrate rigour in approach and research methodology, but above all papers must make an original contribution to the study of design processes. 

*see the context for this here: https://www.designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-future-of-design-studies-update