The Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices.

This Conference is a place discussion which 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.

Submission Deadline: Thursday 13 September - To submit your proposal, please visit the Submit Proposal link on the Conference website: http://design-conference.com
When: Wednesday 9 - Friday 11 January 2008
Where: University of Miami Conference Centre, Florida, USA
Further Information: Visit the conference website: http://design-conference.com

Participatory Design Congerence 08

http://www.pdc2008.org/
To be held at Indiana University, Bloomington SEPTEMBER 30 - OCTOBER 4, 2008.
The conference theme for this Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2008, is Experiences and Challenges. Join us to celebrate two decades of biennial PDCs. We invite you to reflect on past experiences and review the important lessons we have learned so as to better meet the new challenges of the future. What are the important trends, phenomena, developments, and views on participation and design etc., which in so many different ways challenge our traditions, our experiences and/or the current ‘wisdom’ within the field?

Submissions (all contribution types): March 15, 2008
Acceptance notification: May 1, 2008
Final camera-ready version of contribution: June 15, 2008

CHANGING THE CHANGE: Design Visions, Proposals and Tools

www.changingthechange.org
The conference will be held in Torino 10th, 11th, 12th July 2008 in the framework of World Design Capital Torino 2008.
It 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. At the heart of the conference, design researchers will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be complemented by invited keynote speaker presentations that will help paint a clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take off. More about conference themes and aims has been uploaded in the
website.

October 22: publication of specifications for abstracts

November 19: publication of specifications for visualisations

January 21: deadline for abstracts and visualisations

March 3: notification to accepted abstracts and visualisations

May 26: deadline for full papers

Undisciplined, Design Research Society Conference 08

http://drs2008.designinquiry.wikispaces.net/
16-19 July 2008 in Sheffield, England. DRS is open to the whole range of designing disciplines and any scholar interested in the matter of designing. A conference like this is a very wide ranging survey of contemporary inquiry and should not have a narrow theme, but it is good to have some shared ideas to reflect on when we meet. We ask you to think about two important issues and, if they are relevant, weave them into the story of your research. We have chosen the title "Undisciplined!" to reflect these issues; first the question of new and hybrid disciplines, Secondly, a different kind of "discipline".

Early September 2007	Call for Papers
5 November 2007	Abstract Submission starts
1 December 2007	Deadline for Abstracts
Dec 2007-Feb 2008	Abstracts accepted
1 April 2008	Deadline for Full Papers
April/May 2008	Papers accepted/revised
16 July 2008	Conference starts