Conferences
The SDN is supporting workshops and symposia organized by junior design researchers and PhD applicants.
Swiss Design Network Symposium 2024 Design Research / Designforschung / Recherche-création / Ricerca-Design
Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human
Swiss Design Network Research Summit
27 & 28 October 2022
Zurich University of the Arts
Design as Common Good
In light of social, economic, technological and environmental challenges, design researchers, practitioners as well as communities constantly critically address and question the contribution of design to the common good...
Beyond Change 2018
Questioning the Role of design in times of global transformations
Unfrozen
First SDN Design Research Winter Summit 28-31 January 2016, at Grandhotel Giessbach, Switzerland
Disruptive Interaction
8th Swiss Design Network Symposium 9 November 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland
Practicing Theory (or: Did Practice Kill Theory?)
7th Swiss Design Network Symposium One-day Symposium 2011 – HEAD Geneva
Negotiating futures. Design fiction
6th Swiss Design Network Symposium 28-30 October 2010 in Basel, Switzerland
Multiple Ways to Design Research
The job of a designer is increasingly like the polyglot role of a director, the cunning strategist, the innovative technologist and the far-sighted planner.
FOCUSED
Current Design Research Projects and Methods
Drawing New Territories
3rd Swiss Design Network Symposium 17-18 November 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland
Research Landscapes
Forschungslandschaften im Umfeld des Designs / La recherche en relation avec l'environnement du design