Founded in 2007, the Design Principles & Practices Research Network launched with its first conference at Imperial College London in partnership with leading UK design associations. Since then, the conference has traveled across the globe—to University of Miami (USA), Technical University Berlin (Germany), University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), University of California, Los Angeles (USA), Chiba University (Japan), UBC Robson Square (Canada), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College (Canada), ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (Spain), St. Petersburg University (Russia), Pratt Institute (USA), Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico), University of Newcastle (Australia), Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (Portugal), Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), and LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore).
Throughout its history, the Network has welcomed leading voices shaping design culture and practice. Plenary speakers have included Ezio Manzini, Sol Sender, Christian Guellerin, Banny Banerjee, Lev Manovich, Philip Beesley, Yoichiro Kawaguchi, and Lorraine Justice, among others—each contributing perspectives that situate design as a force for social and technological transformation.
We are thankful for the leadership of the following Research Network Chairs.
Current Chair and Editor
(2008 - )
Current Chair and Editor
(2008 - )
Founding Chair and Editor
(2007-2008)
The International Conference on Design Principles & Practices has a rich history of featuring leading and emerging voices from the field, including:
Engineer, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
(2007)
VSA Parnters, Chicago, USA
(2010)
Executive Director, L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique, Nantes, France
(2011)
Founder, Stanford ChangeLabs, Stanford, USA
(2012)
Professor, City University, New York, USA
(2012)
Professor, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
(2012)
Professor, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
(2013)
Dean of College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester USA
(2014)
Founder, Cibic & Partners and Cibicworkshop, Milan, Italy
(2017)
Dean of Design School, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
(2017)
Head, AR/VR Department, Strelka KB, Moscow, Russia
(2019)