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International Conferences related to Business & Design
Below we list conferences about Design, Design Management, Art and Management.
Please let us know if our list is missing a conference on these topics. Contact Mina Dennert: mina.dennert@hdk.gu.se
Art of Management and Organization Conference
4-7 September 2012, York, UK
This year for the tenth anniversary of the series the conference returns to the UK and we will be hosted by The York Management School in one of Britain's most historic cities. York is a mecca for archaeologists, historians and divinity scholars renowned for its exquisite architecture, tangle of quaint cobbled streets and the iconic York Minster. A city of contrasts and exciting discoveries, York is a stylish city where the old encompasses the new and the commonplace meets with the unexpected - a fast developing cutting edge scene with world class museums, some of the country's most talented street entertainers, annual Festival of Ideas and one of the UK's oldest working picture houses (The City Screen) a traditional riverside picture house showing both mainstream and 'art-house' films.
Design!? - 28th EGOS Colloquium 2012
2–7 July 2012, Helsinki, Finland
The theme of the 28th EGOS Colloquium 2012 in Helsinki is Design!? The concept of design has been defined and used in a multitude of ways in a variety of academic fields, ranging from the classics of organizational design to studies on open sourcing and aesthetics. At the Colloquium, we seek not only to problematise and rethink the various meanings of design, but also to promote discussion on new ways to view and to understand organizations and organizing on this basis.
1–4 July 2012 Bangkok, Thailand.
While DRS 2012: Bangkok does not have an exclusive theme, the committee welcomes papers that address notions of ‘Re:Search : uncertainty, contradiction and value’ in contemporary design research, education and/or practice. Issues that might be addressed include: creativity and the institutionalization of design methodologies; design science; design in the academy and the so-called creative economy or creative industry; sustainability versus commodification; criticality and culture; conflicting definitions of design and designer in the contemporary world; design and ethics; individuality, the disciplinary and social contexts; exchange value and surplus value; and absolute values versus relative values.
24-26 May 2012 Helsinki, Finland.
NORTHERN WORLD MANDATE
Towards Open and Participative Cities.
24-26 May 2012 Helsinki Finland hosted by Aalto University School of Art and Design under the umbrella of Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media that is the only global association representing art, design and media education in the world. It was founded in 1990 and has today 176 prominent members from 44 countries.
"Open, participative cities: how design knowledge can support public services in the development of open, participative human environment".
The Cumulus conference, interlinked in the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, is organized in the premises of Aalto University, in the School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland and in the neighboring city of Espoo. The conference program has the opportunity to include pre-conferences and site events.
2011 Tsinghua–DMI International Design Management Symposium, Hong Kong
3-5 December 2011, Hong Kong, China.
As one of the Symposium organizer and Symposium Secretariat, Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC), is an experienced public organization in holding professional international events for the promotion of Hong Kong industry standard as a whole. With its capabilities in design, product development and manufacturing technology, HKPC is a suitable organization to offer professional events which satisfy the requirements of continual professional development for local designers and engineers.
29-30 November 2011, Hong Kong, China
In 2011, the DesignEd Asia Conference is already in its seventh year. It provides a practical platform to bring international design educators and professionals together to share views, knowledge and experiences. Every year, it draws hundreds of international design educators, design researchers, trend analysts, practicing designers, design students, and design-related executives. There will be a 2-day programme featuring presentations, panel discussions, and paper presentations. Attendees will meet with and learn from the best in the design education, and build networks with international design professionals.
14-15 September 2011, Lund, Sweden
Innovation in Mind is an annual event aimed at people who are curious about the future and want to see new connections and opportunities. The point of departure is that all innovation begins in human consciousness, and often through cross-boundary meetings between different areas of knowledge, between resources and needs, between questions and answers. The aim of Innovation in Mind is to be an arena for such meetings — to encourage new perspectives and new ways of thinking, and to contribute to a better climate for innovation. Lund University and Region Skåne arrange innovation in Mind in cooperation with VINNOVA (The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems), the City of Lund and partners.
The first Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference (CADMC) New thinking in design management.
7-8 September 2011, Cambridge, UK
Recently design has become fashionable as a strategic tool, and as a way to address new challenges facing firms. Governments are also increasingly concerned about national design capabilities. This conference provides an opportunity for academics to present their research on the changing landscape of design management.
The conference aims to support quality research and facilitate critical discussion in an open and friendly atmosphere, in line with the ethos of Cambridge, a city that has thrived on academic debate for over 800 years. Participants will also be able to appreciate the ‘Cambridge’ experience by residing in a University College and attending a traditional Cambridge College dinner.
27th EGOS Colloquium, Reassembling Organizations
6–9 July 2011, Gothenburg, Sweden
Knowledge about assembling and reassembling organizations is now more important than ever. In the light of the current economic crisis, globalization, sustainable futures, financial regulation and social welfare are issues of immense importance for the second decade of this century. There will be a demand for organizational and institutional innovations to deal with these problems and this will have implications for both management practice and our understanding of organizations.
Note: Sub-theme 14: Art, Design and Organization
by Mary Jo Hatch, Gothenburg University, Sweden,
Stefan Meisiek, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
and Ulla Johansson, Gothenburg University, Sweden
What can art, design and organization studies learn from one another? And where are their boundaries, when a growing number of organization scholars draw on design thinking and artistic theories to explain contemporary organizational phenomena? To answer such questions, this track will look for convergences between art, design and organization and hopes to attract those interested in their intersecting lines of flight.
EIASPM, 18TH International Product Development Management Conference - Innovate Through Design
June 5-7 2011, Delft, The Netherlands.
The special theme for our conference will be “Innovate through Design”. This means that we welcome papers on the topics of design thinking and design management along with the more common innovation management and new product development themes for the IPDM Conference. We plan to hold a special exhibition highlighting innovative product designs that have been developed at the faculty in the hall in which we will take refreshments. Special key notes will be delivered by famous designers and by high profile academics.
EAD 2011: 9th Intl Conf of the European Academy of Design
4-7 May 2011, Porto, Portugal.
There is a sense of vertigo permeating contemporary culture as a whole, and design in particular. So much so, that we often find ourselves wondering if design as we have known it still matters. Design seems to have lost its universe of focus, branching exponentially into a multitude of concerns and activities formerly situated well beyond its scope. Likewise, design seems to be the new interest of so many professionals situated outside its area of expertise; not long ago it seemed like design was being courted, and maybe even actively cultivating, a territorial ambiguity that has kept its professionals worried, to say the least.
This dissipation of a discernible territory of practice could seem like a loss at first, until we gradually came to understand that Design is, after all and despite the contextual noise, a deeply human activity, and, as such, any circumscription of its potential would, in itself, be an artifice, an operational and transitory device; and that, rather than being devalued by this apparent dilution of its area of expert operation, Design suddenly has the opportunity to expand and mature as far as its context, content and purpose are concerned.
ServDes - Service Design and Innovation Confererence 2010
1-3 December, 2010, Linköping, Sweden.
The first Nordic Service Design and Service Innovation Conference investigated the legacy brought from other design disciplines as well as exploring new fields. This year's theme is ‘ExChanging Knowledge’. ServDes invites contributions from researchers and practitioners that wish to contribute to the growing knowledge base of service design.
7th International Design & Emotions Conference
4-7 October, 2010, Chicago, Institute of Design, IIT and Design & Emotions Society.
"Technologies are now able to achieve emotional qualities and design examples using these technologies abound. While we have made significant progress in research and practice relevant to emotional factors in design, many fundamental questions remain unanswered and new issues have been raised as we experience major changes in technological, social, cultural and economic environments. We are at the stage for another leap forward in the development of new understanding and vision of emotional factors in design through our critical reflection, innovative exploration and collaborative endeavor. This conference calls for your contribution to this exciting international forum of research and practice representing academic, professional and business communities."
CUMULUS Shanghai Conference 2010
7-10 September, 2010, Shanghai, China
"The conference will explore where and how a young generation of designers, through their talent and responsibility, to improve our environment and life in a creatively way."
The Resilience of the Global Service Economy
30/9 - 2/10, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden
The RESER conference 2010 in Gothenburg marks the 20th anniversary as the annual platform and meeting place for European researchers and policy makers working on services. RESER is an interdisciplinary European network of social scientists linked by a common interest in service industries and their territorial expression. The annual RESER research conference provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of ideas concerning the cutting edge of service research and is open to all researchers interested in these topics.
DRS, Design Research Society 2010 Conference
7-9 July, 2010, Montreal, Canada
"DRS 2010 is open to the whole range of design disciplines and contemporary inquiries in design. The theme of Design & Complexity should be understood as a springboard for sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design research. We propose to the community of design researchers to think and report on complexity as it is encountered in a variety of the designed product, experience or service."
30 June - 3 July, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
Sub-Theme 32: Design-Driven Innovation: Linguistic, Semantic and Symbolic Innovations vs. Technological and Functional Innovations:
By focusing on product form design (Rindova and Petkova, 2007) and the linguistic, semantic and symbolic innovation that can be brought about by the redefinition of product form (Ravasi and Rindova, 2008; Dell'Era and Verganti, 2009), we aim to stimulate an intensification of research in the management of innovation, in which technological and functional innovations is not the only focus. By addressing the design activity through the identity and the fast recognition of the objects rather than their form or functions, Hatchuel (2006) suggest an inspiring and fruitful framework.
9th Annual Frontiers in Service Conference 2010
10-13 June, 2010, Karlstad, Sweden
The Frontiers in Service Conference was founded in 1992 by Roland Rust, and is considered by many to be the world's leading annual conference on service research. The conference has a very global nature, and generally draws attendees from 35 countries or more from around the world. It is sponsored annually by the Center for Excellence in Service at the University of Maryland.
The Frontiers in Service Conference features a unique international mix of business people and academics, and a cross-functional list of topics, including service science, service marketing, service operations, service human resources, service information technology, e-service, service innovation, and customer relationship management. Speakers at the conference include many of the leading service experts, including high-ranking executives and prominent academics from around the world.
EMAC 2010, European Marketing Academy Conference
1-4 June, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen Business School is very pleased to host the 39th EMAC Conference and looks forward to welcoming you in June 2010! The Department of Marketing has chosen “The Six Senses – The Essentials of Marketing” as motto for the conference in 2010.
EURAM - European Academy of Management Conference 2010
19-22 May, 2010, Rome, Italy
"Following on the heels of several corporate scandals, the current financial crisis has destroyed public confidence in management theories and practices. It has shown the failure of rules, systems and processes to effectively control and guide public and private organizations, leaving space for managers’ opportunistic behavior. It is important to analyze in depth what happened in practice, advance high quality theoretical and empirical research, opening a new season for the international scientific debate. The new findings must improve managerial practices with respect to the interests of stakeholders and society at large."
4th International Conference on Design Principles & Practices
13-15 February, 2010, Chicago
The Design Conference explores the meaning, purpose and future of 'design', including design processes and the use of objects produced. The conference is an inclusive forum that welcomes a breadth of perspectives on design from practitioners, teachers and researchers from many professions and academic disciplines. This inclusive approach provides opportunities for conversations that interrogate ossified assumptions and suggest new possibilities informed by a multiplicity of theoretical, pedagogical and practical concerns.
European Forum for Design Management Research - !!
10-11 December 2009, Gothenburg, Sweden
There is a growing interest for design among management researchers and managers in practice. This is a great opportunity for design management as discipline but it will also challenge the development of the design research as such. Concepts like service design and design thinking might - or might not - trigger management researchers and consultants to look more into design management research. Implications, consequences and opportunities will be discussed at the 2nd European Design Management Forum in Gothenburg 10-11 December 2009.There is a growing interest for design among management researchers and managers in practice. This is a great opportunity for design management as discipline but it will also challenge the development of the design research as such. Concepts like service design and design thinking might - or might not - trigger management researchers and consultants to look more into design management research. Implications, consequences and opportunities will be discussed at the 2nd European Design Management Forum in Gothenburg 10-11 December 2009.
24 - 26 November, AOH, Oslo, Norway
"We strongly believe that Service Design can improve the competitive ability of the Nordic service sector, and have established this conference to show how this can be done. The Nordic countries have contributed in a major way to the recent development of Service Design, and there are several consultancies, courses and projects that are already established in the area. We feel that it is time to bring together key people, to showcase results and establish a dialogue, so that we can accelerate its growth. We see the potential to create a Nordic Service Design network, that brings together business, marketing, design and technology expertise with a common goal to create better services and service experiences. This conference takes the first steps towards this."
Sustainable Innovation 09 - Towards a Low Carbon Innovation Revolution
26 - 27 October, Farnham Castle, Farnham, UK
"Sustainable Innovation 09 will provide a platform to discuss the future opportunities and challenges related to the design, development and commercialisation of low carbon innovation, technologies, products and services. Sustainable Innovation 09 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, technology providers, designers, sustainability, environment and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) managers as well as other business functions. The event will be a unique learning experience, networking space and an opportunity to think. Delegates will come globally from large companies, entrepreneurs, as well as academia, government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The conference is supported by an international Advisory Board."
Service Design Conference 2009 - Service Design Network
26-27 October 2009, Madeira, Portugal
"Having explored the basics of Service Design in many interesting presentations and workshops at last year’s sdn conference, it is now time to dig deeper into the field. We will present a vivid mix of different presentations, workshops and papers in order to provide you with academic and practical expertise from renowned international players in the Service Design field. Don’t miss this chance to socialise, gain knowledge and exchange experiences with Service Designers and service-oriented companies worldwide!"
IASDR, International Association of Societies of Design Research conference
18-22 October 2009, Seoul, Korea
"The theme of IASDR 2009 is Rigor and Relevance in Design. Design has been evolved into a unique but highly influencing discipline in this rapidly changing society. But it has also struggled to find its own rigor and relevance as a disciplined field as its own. In this conference, we invite various perspectives and research outcomes that may address the issues of establishing our own rigor and relevance of design research and practice in the field of Design, as well as discussions and research activities related to all the important design subjects ..."
2-3 November 2009, Borås, Sweden
"The Design of Prosperity initiative aims to be a lighthouse for all agents taking part in the construction of a new understanding of prosperity. Especially in times of radical change, our initiatives offer a gamut of new knowledge platforms that give completely new points of orientation for decision makers in business, politics and culture."
6-9 September,Gothenburg, Sweden
"For the fifth time, CIP FORUM will gather the world’s most preeminent knowledge-based business community in Göteborg. The theme of CIP FORUM 2009 is "The Future of Innovation" and focuses on how modern innovation processes in the knowledge economy are built upon the management of intellectual assets, property, and capital."
30 August -1 September 2009, Oslo, Norway
"Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in which we understand and do design. The conference invites contributions from researchers in universities, design schools and industry who share an interest in understanding and developing design as a trans-disciplinary practice that is always in the making. The scope of the conference reaches beyond the traditional design disciplines and includes other research areas with mutual interest in design research and engaging artefacts. NORDES Œ09 directs its interest towards the diversity, challenges and emerging practices and understandings of design. The conference theme reflects a range of issues that characterize design and design research today."
SCOS 2009 - Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism
8th - 11th July, Copenhagen and Malmoe, Denmark and Sweden
Organizations themselves – of whatever sort - are of course based on connectivity and separation, on the inter and the intra, and their diametric opposites. And organizational scholars, both ‘mainstream’ and ‘critical’, have reflected on a wide variety of issues which pertain to these themes. Thus there are well developed and longstanding literatures on culture, conflict, teamwork, competition, identity, diversity, inter-organizational partnerships (of whatever kind) and so on. For SCOS 27 we therefore encourage innovative and novel perspectives on such topics which do simply not rehearse established wisdom. Bridging is, moreover, absolutely central to the SCOS ethos of encouraging interdisciplinarity in an international environment. So we are, as ever, interested in papers about any aspect of organizations and organizing which connect together different knowledges and realities, different disciplines, different geographies, different cultures, academe and practice, ‘mainstream’ and ‘critical’ and so on. But the number of associations attached to bridges and bridging are limitless...
The Art & Science of Service Conference 2009
17-19 June, 2009. Waltham, MA, US
"Service innovation takes many forms, including organizational and entrepreneurial. As a result, for many, service innovation is considered to be more of an art form than a science. However, significant progress has been made recently in developing technical tools and techniques that facilitate the development of innovative services through a more structured approach. Thus it can be considered both an art and a science. The focus of this year's meeting, therefore, is to better define and understand service innovation and its challenges going forward."
Design PhD Conference 2009 - Sustainability, Innovation and Design
15-16/6, Lancaster University, UK
"This year the PhD conference will be a forum for new ideas and new directions in design research related to the complex interrelationships between innovation, sustainability and design.
The changing nature of our activities - reflecting changes in society, technology, the environment and business - demands the development of new creative directions, new kinds of material culture, services, and organisations, and new kinds of designers and creative professionals."
EURAM - European Academy of Management Conference 2009
11-14/5, Liverpool, UK
Economies, cities and organizations rise and fall. The successful enjoy processes of renewal and renaissance. The EURAM 2009 annual conference, with its focus on how such processes occur, will take place in Liverpool, a city enjoying its own renewal and renaissance.
D2B2 - Tsinghua International Design Management Symposium: Beijing 2009
23-26/4, 2009, Beijing, China
D2B2 - Tsinghua International Design Management Symposium: Beijing 2009 will provide an opportunity for international delegates from business, academic and public organizations to find inspiration and answers to multi-faceted and complex questions facing the design and management community through extended, in-depth discussions at seminars and interaction in workshops. The central theme "Innovation, Design, Management" will be supported by several key sub-themes within the conference that discusses:
- Design for Service and Manufacture
- Design as a Source of Strategy , and Innovation , and Brand Building
- New Paradigms in Design Management: The Changing Faces Of Supply And Demand
EAD - Design Connexity, 8th International Conference of the European Academy of Design
1st-3rd April, 2009 in Aberdeen, Scotland
The European Academy of Design and Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, invite you to the Eighth International Design Conference. The conference offers a forum for design academics, researchers, practitioners and industry representatives to meet, exchange ideas and share new knowledge and insights across the field of design.
15-17/2 2009, University of Arts, Berlin, Germany
"This conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The conference is a cross- disciplinary forum which brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism."
Service Design Conference 2008 in Amsterdam
24-26/11 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands
From 24th - 26th November, the first Service Design Conference will take place in Amsterdam. This is the first Europe based, international Service Design Conference. The Conference is of particular relevance to businesses, industries and the public sector relating to the Service Design field. Come to the Service Design Conference, and discover the latest developments in the area of Service Design, exchange ideas, and be a part of establishing this fast expanding field.
ICOVACS 2008 “Integrating Design, Logistics and Branding for Sustainable Value Creation”
12-14/11 2008 Izmir, Turkiet
ICOVACS 2008 (International Conference on Value Chain Sustainability) is the first of conference series that aim to bring academia, professionals, decision-makers and practitioners together, who work in various fields of business and strive for creating and maintaining sustainable value chains.
6th Design & Emotion Conference - Dare to Desire!
6-9 October 2008, School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
The Conference on Design & Emotion is a forum where practitioners, researchers and industry meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion. The conference programme will include keynote speeches, paper presentations, case studies from the industries presentations, poster exhibition and workshops. This year the main theme is 'Dare to Desire' - dare to surrender to the multifaceted behavioural, mental, expressive, and physical phenomena we call emotion. Good design is desirable design, and design for emotion is not about products and services that feel good, but about products and services that make us feel great.
ELIA - Biennal Conference 2009 (European League of Institutes of the Arts)
29 October - 1 November, Gothenburg, Sweden
Each of the previous nine ELIA conferences had a specific title. While the 10th ELIA Conference has no title as such, we have chosen the image of a stuffed polar bear as a visual signifier — not just for the conference itself, but also as a reminder of the more fragile aspects of our world. As a metaphor, it is a potent reminder of our responsibilities and how we need to orient ourselves and our actions toward the future.
27-28/10 2008 i Malmö, Sverige
Sustainable Innovation 08 will provide a platform to discuss in the future opportunities and challenges related to sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. Sustainable Innovation 08 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, technology providers, designers, sustainability, environment and Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) managers as well as other business functions.
4th Art of Magement Conference
9-12/9 2006 i Banff, Alberta, Canada
September 2002 saw the beginning of the Art of Management and Organization Conference in London. Our aim was, and continues to be, the exploration and promotion of the arts (in the most inclusive sense) as a means of understanding management and organization(al) life.
Changing the Change - Design visions, proposals and tools
10-12/7 2008 i Turin, Italien
The conference seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place.
28-30/5 2008 i Lund, Sverige
The Nordic network for research on communicative product design (Nordcode) is initiated by research colleagues of the department of Industrial Design Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology (in Gothenburg, Sweden) and of the “Meaning of Form” research group at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH), Finland.
19-22/5 2008 i Dubrovnik, Kroatien
A precondition for international competitiveness is the companies' capacity to develop products at optimum quality, cost and time. Market pressure forces companies to provide products of increased complexity matching individual desires. New customer demands and turbulent world of changes are continuously reshaping the product development process. How this influences engineering design methodologies and tools in practice? How to improve design projects and processes? How to improve the development of products and services? Which competencies, information and communication technologies are needed? What is the impact on the everyday design work? What social and legal issues should be considered? What are the new advances in design theory and research?
16-16/4 2008 i Paris Frankrike
This year, DMI’s European conference will explore the evolution of design thinking and strategy to the next level. An international roster of forward-thinking experts will provoke, educate, and share. Come to Paris for three days of immersion in cultural exchange, and knowledge-building. Learn to make more holistic and meaningful contributions to the organization.
Design Thinking: New Challenges for Designers, Managers and Organization
14-14/4 2008 i Paris, Frankrike
This conference will be a forum for the exchange of ideas, academic research models and best practices among academics and practitioners from across the world. Proceedings of the conference will help participants better understand ways to manage the design management and innovation process in the global and digital era.