Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Eleventh International Conference on Design Principles & Practices.
Countries represented.
The world of design is facing new challenges in the 21st century. The emergence of ‘Global Village,’ facilitated by the advance of electronic media and new technology, has changed the way people live, work, interact, and communicate with each other. Designers and practitioners from diverse cultural, social, and professional backgrounds are working together to understand the different implications of global systems and co-design the infrastructure, systems, and services of our future living.
This highly participatory and collaborative environment, connected through a worldwide electronic network and guided by the rules of a globalized marketplace, raises critical questions about the role of design and designers in shaping the personal and collective objects and spaces that we use and share in our everyday lives.
The Eleventh International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, in partnership with the Institute without Boundaries at George Brown College, welcomes designers, educators, thinkers, students, and scholars to participate in this year’s event that is taking place in Toronto, Canada. This conference creates an opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss projects that are tackling the different impacts of designing within a global context.
Architect, PhD, Researcher Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
Dean of Centre for Arts, Design and Information Technology, George Brown College
Architect, PhD, Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
The Eleventh International Conference on Design Principles & Practices featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Documentary Film-maker; Artistic Director, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Boston, USA and Toronto, Canada
"Open City, Open Web: How Documentary Storytelling Equates the Urban with the Virtual"
Co-President of KerrSmith Design; Professor, Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation Program, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
“Tomorrow’s Global Cities”
Professor, Dean of the Design School, Politecnico di Milano; President of Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, Milan, Italy
"Design for the Global Village: Designing Physical Exhibitions in a Global, Web-connected World"
Architect; Co-founder and curator of Hello Wood, Budapest, Hungary
"To Be in a Village"
Founder of Cibic & Partners; Founder of Cibicworkshop
"Active Involvement in a Design Process: The Basics of Rethinking Happiness"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2017 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
Design Manager, Toronto, Canada
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
George Brown College, Toronto, Canada
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
Toronto, Canada
Helsinki, Finland
UK
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
Lightning Talks are 5-minute "flash" video presentations. Visit our YouTube channel through the button below to view the lightning talks.