The Design Principles & Practices Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum to explore the meaning and purpose of design. In professional and disciplinary terms, the network traverses a broad sweep to construct a trans-disciplinary dialogue, which encompasses a wide array of design paradigms and practices. We move between theoretical reflection on the nature of design and case studies of design practice, and from research-based perspectives to the experience-based perspectives of design insiders. Our aim is to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices features research addressing the following annual themes:
The Fifteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices will feature plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Global Design Senior Director, Whirlpool Corporation
President, Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca, President, Apoyo al Desarrollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de México, and Director, Biblioteca Francisco de Burgoa of UABJO, Mexico
Full-time Professor, Graphic Design Department, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Dean, School of Architecture, Art and Design, Technologio de Monterrey
Professor, Processes Design, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Italy
Associate Professor, Director of First Cycle Degree in Industrial Design and the Second Cycle Degree in Advanced DesignDepartment of Architecture (DA), University of Bologna, Italy
Architect; Researcher; Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Architect; Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Dean, School of Art and Design, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Professor, School of Art and Design, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Monterrey, Mexico
Monterrey, Mexico
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