The IASDR 2025 conference website has been launched.

We are happy to announce that IASDR 2025: Design Next will be held on December 02-05, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference website has been launched at https://iasdr2025.org/

Important Dates:

• March 1, 2025, Submission portal open
• May 1, 2025, Main submission deadline
• August 31, 2025, Announcement of acceptance
• Dec. 2 -5, 2025, IASDR 2025: Design Next, Taipei, Taiwan

The IASDR 2023 conference website has been launched.

We are extremely happy to announce that IASDR 2023 will be held on Oct 09-13, 2023 at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Itlay. The conference website has been launched at https://www.iasdr2023.polimi.it/

Important Dates:

• 28th March 2023 - Submission deadline for Full Papers
• 28th April 2023 - Submission deadline for Ph.D. Consortium, Short Papers (includes Posters for the camera-ready submission) Pictorials, Panels, and Workshops
• 03rd July 2023 - Notification to authors and feedback
• 07th August 2023 - Camera-ready submissions deadline for accepted submissions
• 9th - 13th October 2023, IASDR Congress 2023

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The IASDR 2021 conference website has been launched.

IASDR 2021, Dec. 05-09, 2021, Hong Kong

The conference website has been launched at https://www.iasdr2021.org/.

Key Dates:

• 1 March 2021, Submission portal open
• 1 May 2021, Main submission deadline
• 30 July 2021, Announcement of acceptance
• 5 to 9 December 2021, Main conference (5-day programme)
• 5 December, Workshops;

Pre-conference ex-curricular activities in connection to the events of Business of Design Week 2021 (BoDW 2021). 

• 6 - 8 December,  Main Conference Programme
• 9 December, Graduate Consortium

The IASDR 2019 conference website has been launched

Update: IASDR 2019, Sept. 02-05, 2019, Manchester,  UK

The conference website has been launched at https://iasdr2019.org/.

Key Dates:

• 15 October 2018 - Call for Papers
• 15 November 2018 - Full paper submission opens
• 15 February 2019 - Final deadline for full paper submission
• 01 April 2019 - Delegate registration opens
• 30 April 2019 - Announcement of paper decisions
• 31 May 2019 - Early bird registration closes
• 15 June 2019 - Camera ready paper submission
• 15 August 2019 - Late registration closes
• 02 - 05 September 2019 - Conference

IASDR new website

Over the past few months, the IASDR board has considered the design of a new website. The intention is to offer member societies a more up to date site with better internal editing facilities and room for future growth. We are now able to announce that the first iteration of the new site is online, and we will be adding further content and facilities over the coming months. Further announcements will be made as facilities become available.

As a significant part of this fresh approach, we also took the difficult decision to relinquish the old domain name in favour of the new website link iasdr.net to better reflect the nature of IASDR in networking between member societies and in networking globally for the benefit of the design research community in general. 

Please disseminate this information as widely as possible.

IASDR Congress 2019, September 2-5, 2019

We are pleased to announce that the 2019 IASDR biennial Congress will be hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK from 2nd to 5th September 2019. The lead organiser is Professor Martyn Evans, Head of the Manchester School of Art Research Centre.

Previous IASDR Congresses have been held in various locations worldwide, including Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Netherlands and Australia, and most recently in USA. These conferences attract a large global audience, and proceedings are published online.

Further details including a link to the dedicated conference website will be announced shortly.

IASDR 2021

An announcement will shortly be made here about the bidding process for hosting the IASDR2021 Congress.  The biennial IASDR Congress is the most important shared event for member societies to disseminate the research of their members. Therefore the conference covers a wide a range of topics in line with member societies’ interests. Congresses are held every two years, in the ‘odd-numbered’ years – i.e. 2015, 2017, etc., and usually in the second half of the year (autumn/fall in the northern hemisphere). Proceedings are made available online after the event to gold open access standard. A full prospectus will be made available to prospective bidders together with means of application.

New IASDR Board Members

The organising board for IASDR comprises two representatives from each of the member societies who are elected to the board for a fixed duration of time. The names and affiliations of all board members may be found elsewhere on this site.

We would like to welcome two recently appointed board members:

Dr. Byung-Keun Oh, Korea Society for the Science of Design

Professor Martyn Evans, Design Research Society