The deadline for abstract submissions for our Conference “Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human” has been extended to 19 April 2022. We’re looking forward to receiving your proposals.

The essays collected in this volume explore a broad number of approaches to design research: Historical, critical perspectives on design and design research, overviews of the social conditions of design and the theories and instruments of co-design, investigations of design research practices, examples of concrete projects and developments, and connecting the material and digital worlds.

Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland presents for the first time eleven selected essays on the production, mediation and consumption of graphic design artifacts and processes, as well as their respective discourses by authors from the German, French and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland.