Dates: 20-22 April 2021
Location: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Website: DTRS13
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 20 April 2020
We are very pleased to announce the 13th symposium in the DTRS (Design Thinking Research Symposium) series, which will take place on April 20-22, 2021, at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. The theme of the symposium will be:
Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse?
The DTRS series of meetings was launched at TUDelft in 1992. It aims to research design thinking on the base of real world evidence. Each of the past 12 meetings has dealt with a specific topic and in the next 13th symposium we will look at the expansion of what is understood as design (and design thinking), whereby many activities by professionals from different disciplines are seen as included in the term ‘design’. Participants in these undertakings consist of those who were educated in core design fields and others, including managers, marketing professionals and all sorts of other experts. The terms ‘Specialist Designer’ and ‘Generalist Designer’ have been coined to try to distinguish between those trained in traditional design disciplines and other participants in design initiatives. Various modes of team and group work are involved, such as collaboration, cooperation, consultation and more.
The move from design thinking as the way in which designers think to Design Thinking as a method embraced by the business world has brought many new actors to the table, and it is no longer clear what exactly design means and how well it is served by the expansion of its boundaries. In DTRS13 we would like to investigate precisely these questions. What are the new frontiers design is demarcating? Do they have the capacity to sustain the missions of design? What do we gain from this expansion of frontiers? What do we lose, if something is lost? Can we find a new signification for the designer, which will be wider than the traditional one but narrower than “everybody is a designer”? We invite design thinking researchers to explore issues related to these questions, based on evidence.
The key dates are:
Please contact us by email at: dtrs13@technion.ac.il if you have questions, suggestions, or any other concerns regarding DTRS13.
See the website for further details.
Location: Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Website: DTRS13
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 20 April 2020
Expanding the frontiers of design: A blessing or a curse?
The DTRS series of meetings was launched at TUDelft in 1992. It aims to research design thinking on the base of real world evidence. Each of the past 12 meetings has dealt with a specific topic and in the next 13th symposium we will look at the expansion of what is understood as design (and design thinking), whereby many activities by professionals from different disciplines are seen as included in the term ‘design’. Participants in these undertakings consist of those who were educated in core design fields and others, including managers, marketing professionals and all sorts of other experts. The terms ‘Specialist Designer’ and ‘Generalist Designer’ have been coined to try to distinguish between those trained in traditional design disciplines and other participants in design initiatives. Various modes of team and group work are involved, such as collaboration, cooperation, consultation and more.
The move from design thinking as the way in which designers think to Design Thinking as a method embraced by the business world has brought many new actors to the table, and it is no longer clear what exactly design means and how well it is served by the expansion of its boundaries. In DTRS13 we would like to investigate precisely these questions. What are the new frontiers design is demarcating? Do they have the capacity to sustain the missions of design? What do we gain from this expansion of frontiers? What do we lose, if something is lost? Can we find a new signification for the designer, which will be wider than the traditional one but narrower than “everybody is a designer”? We invite design thinking researchers to explore issues related to these questions, based on evidence.
The key dates are:
- Submission of extended abstract April 20, 2020
- Feedback on abstract June 20, 2020
- Interim full paper submission September 15, 2020
- Reviewers decision November 30, 2020
- Final full paper submission February 20, 2021
Please contact us by email at: dtrs13@technion.ac.il if you have questions, suggestions, or any other concerns regarding DTRS13.
See the website for further details.
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