Application Deadline Extended: April 19, 2024

Open PhD Position at the University of Lausanne. 

This international research exchange day explores the shift from graphic design as a service to industry to “cultural graphic design”.

How can one as a graphic designer, shift and relearn understandings of visual knowledge towards the social political context each of us is living in? And can this eventually lead to a more inclusive, co-existing, community-based and social-political reflective praxis?

Call for Papers for the DGTF conference in Luzern 

The critical topics of this year's edition are «Immersive Journalism», «Design Realities», «Future Technologies», «Worldbuilding», and «New Ecologies».

Open paid PhD position at the Zurich University of the Arts. 

A creative and critical Exchange

At ECAL, Lausanne on 26 April 2023.

What is ECOMADE? In a collaborative process, Joel Hügli has developed three sustainable partial solutions for different phases in the life cycle with ECOMADE: 1. ten design principles for sustainable mattresses, 2. new generation of a comfortable and sustainable mattress, 3. closed-loop recycling of mattress textiles.

Publishing Grant Recipient

Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography is a critical essay and an operative handbook that paved the way to modern graphic design.

Swiss Design Network Research Summit
27 & 28 October 2022
Zurich University of the Arts

The SDN Grant 2022 is now accepting submissions until December 1. 2022. Have a look at this year's Guidelines and Requirements. We're looking forward to seeing your proposals.

The SDN Publication Grant 2022 is now accepting submissions until September 15. 2022. Have a look at this year's Guidelines and Requirements. We're looking forward to seeing your proposals.

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.

Open Call for paper for next year's Commons in Design conference at the Academy of Art and Design in Basel. The Application Deadline is 31.05.2022!

The MAKE/SENSE PhD Programme is accepting applications until March 31, 2022. Apply Now!

Submissions for the Swiss Design Network Winter Research Summit are now open. Have a look at this year's conference topic.

www.counterparts.ch

A position for an assistant in the field of Open Science for Arts Design and Music.

«When language begins to break down a little bit, it becomes exciting and communicates in nearly the simplest way that it can function: you are forced to be aware of the sounds and the poetic parts of words».

The HSLU - D&K will start the doctoral program "Eco-Social Innovation by Design" in cooperation with the the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India. The program is part of the department's development, in which sustainability is strengthened as a key qualification in teaching and research in the Bachelor, Master and Doctorate.

The SDN Grant 2021 is now accepting submissions until November 1. 2021. Have a look at this years Guidelines and Requirements. We're looking forward to see your proposals. 

FUTURESS’ new study program exposing coded inequalities and reimagining technologies for better, brighter, and more just futures!

Meet the Editor: futuress.org's Nina Paim and our very own coordinator Mayar El Bakry discuss our latest Publication Design Struggles at this year's Memory Full 2021 - online DHS conference. Registrations are still open! Hurry up!

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...

The podcast that explores design as planetary praxis. In each episode Michaela Büsse speaks to artists, filmmakers, designer, architects or researchers whose practice explores entanglements between society, technology and environment. Together they discuss how histories, geographies and politics shape practices and how, in return, these practices shape our being in the world.

Deadline for Abstract Submission to our conference «Design as Common Good 2021» has been extended to 31 July 2020. Looking forward to receiving your papers.

New complex challenges and ideological shifts are shaking the very foundations of our society. Despite living in a highly informed and hyperconnected world, alienation and polarisation are evident in society. Digital media and communication tools are mostly perceived as progressive but they contribute to communication becoming increasingly abstract.

Questioning the Role of design in times of global transformations

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.

8th Swiss Design Network Symposium 9 November 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland

The SDN supports the dissemination and publication of research and other efforts by up and coming researchers and PhD candidates at Swiss Art and Design Universities. This can be done through workshops and various public formats.