DeSH Lab

ICDHS14 New Delhi, the 14th International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, invites scholars and practitioners from around the world to join an exciting conversation on the diverse narratives that shape design cultures. The conference structure supports multiple strands—keynote speeches, podium presentations, and poster sessions—that foster an inclusive dialogue among the varied perspectives of Design History and Design Studies.

This edition’s central theme, Cultures of Design, will delve into the elaborations on positions, projects and pedagogies, around the cultural aspects of design around the following themes:

1. Visual Cultures of Design

2. Typographic Cultures of Design

3. Traditional Cultures of Design

4. Counter Cultures of Design

5. Sustainable Cultures of Design

6. Systemic Cultures of Design.

7. An Open Track is also available for submissions that do not fit neatly into these categories, encouraging a broader engagement with design’s cultural context.

The submission process involves an abstract (400-500 words), followed by a full paper for selected entries. Abstracts are due by November 1, 2024, and should address the motivations, methodologies, and contributions of the research within the conference’s central theme.

Join us in New Delhi for this critical exploration of design’s cultural dimensions. The submission portal opens on September 30, 2024. 

More on Web:  www.icdhs14.org | Instagram: @icdhs14 | X: @ICDHS14

Call for Participation [Deadline: 28 December 2024]

SiDE Symposium @IIT Delhi

Sustainability in Design Education

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A two-day Design Symposium

organised by IIT Delhi and TU Delft

at 22-23 January 2025, IIT Delhi, India

Design Education has witnessed several shifts and expansions in its post-Ulm evolution. The SiDE Symposium aims to explore various positions, pedagogies, and projects in postcolonial discourse that have addressed sustainability in its environmental, cultural, social, and economic dimensions over the past five decades.

We invite design educators, researchers, and practitioners to contribute accounts on

- How has sustainability emerged as a central theme in Design Education?

- How is sustainability explored at various levels and stages of a Design process in Design Education?

- How can sustainability be integrated into Visioning in Design Education?

The proposal may cover positional, pedagogical, or project accounts that are institutional, auto-ethnographic, thematic, or synoptic.

We seek 1200-word extended abstracts describing points such as:

• Operational context (such as a studio project, research experiment, visioning exercise etc.)

• Form of design (industrial design, communication design, architecture, etc.)

• Methodology

• Suggested Framework (models, visions, and speculations etc.)

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