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    TYPO Berlin 2017
    Date
    25-27 May 2017
    Description

    With a theme of ‘Wonderlust’, this years TYPO event will concentrate on creativity-enhancing career transitions and challenge those who attend to leave their comfort zones.

    ‘Many people still haven’t embraced the joy of change. TYPO Berlin 2017 will tackle methodological agility, and aims to facilitate a rethinking. How do I get out of my comfort zone? At which points can I permit fluid structures? How do I develop new potential for innovation? Those are the questions typical of traditional organisational models, which won’t help us make headway in the future.’

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    What Design Can Do
    Date
    23-24 May 2017
    Description

    What Design Can Do is pushing back boundaries in 2017. WDCD Live Amsterdam, on 23 & 24 May 2017 at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, will focus almost entirely on climate change and how designers can address this urgent issue. The topic is also the subject of the new WDCD Climate Action Challenge.

    Their new dynamic conference format is all about active participation. The event includes masterclasses, lively workshops, hackathons, roundtable discussions, lectures by leading experts, talks by outstanding designers and much more besides.

  • Title
    By Design Conference
    Date
    20 May 2017
    Description

    By Design is a conference for Designers, Entrepreneurs and Creative Minds

  • Title
    EAD Conference: Design For Next
    Date
    12-14 April 2017
    Location
    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
    Description

    Contemporary shifts in society, technology and production are re-framing design processes, approaches and tools. While professionals, educators and researchers are questioning the next stage of innovation, design is evolving as a wide open field with many applications and meanings. More than ever it is important to investigate through design research and practice in order to tackle the societal, technological and industrial shifts of the future.

    The 12th EAD Conference is hosted by Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, and it will foster discussion among designers, academics and experts about the articulated scenario of contemporary design and its perspectives, with intent to nurture diversity and interdisciplinarity.

    ‘Design for Next …’ is the title and topic of the Conference: ‘Next’ implies the concept of proximity as well as of destination, related to time and to physical space. The conference seeks to discover future fields of investigation in design, as well to discover and to connect the space and the people who share common interests in design research.

    They invite contributions from professionals, academics and students to address the following questions with their own research, projects and experiences: What is Design for the Next? And what is the ‘Next’ focus of Design?

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    Dibi
    Date
    30-31 March 2017
    Location
    Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
    Description

    Design It; Build It is an international conference for those shaping the future of the web.

    Speakers include Molly Nix the Senior Product Designer for Uber, Chris Hammond the Design Research lead for IBM Design, Christian Vasile the Seinor UX Designer for KPMG, Bram Stein the Web Developer for Adobe Typekit and many many more.

    Click HERE for more information.

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    TEI 2017
    Date
    20-23 March 2017
    Description

    TEI 2017 is the 11th annual conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. It will be held 20th to 23th March 2017 hosted at Keio University in Yokohama, Japan

    It addresses issues of human-computer interaction, novel tools and technologies, interactive art, and user experience. The work presented at TEI has a strong focus on how computing can bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, hands-on studios, posters, art installations and performances.

     

  • Title
    Textile Forum – The Fashion Fabric Show
    Date
    15-16 March 2017
    Location
    One Marylebone
    1 Marylebone Road
    London
    NW1 4AQ
    Description

    The Textile Forum is a luxury fashion fabric event for designers looking to source top quality fabrics and trimmings for womenswear, menswear, childrenswear, bridalwear, lingerie and accessories and want to be inspired.

    Top British wools and tweeds meet laces and silks, fine cottons and leathers with a sprinkling of buttons, linings and labels at the spring Textile Forum, which will present stock and forward order fabrics over two floors at its central London venue

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    Design Indaba Conference
    Date
    1-3 March 2017
    Description

    Independently curated with a focus on case studies and ingenious problem solving, rather than simply eye-catching portfolios, conference alumni are contemporary industry pacesetters. The Conference’s scope has broadened over the years to include all the creative sectors.

    The annual Design Indaba Conference is held in Cape Town, South Africa. It is also broadcast via live simulcast to multiple cities at a lower price point to broaden the access to the event.

     

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    FITC Amsterdam Festival
    Date
    20-21 February 2017
    Description

    FITC Amsterdam returns for the 10th year to host the groundbreaking design and tech event on the future of innovation & design.

    This event includes 40+ speakers from around the globe, game-changing conversations on the Future, Innovative, Technology, and Creativity & two full days of conference talks and learning as well as two night time networking parties and optional full day workshops on Sunday Feb 19.

    For more information click HERE

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    3rd International Conference on Food Design
    Date
    17-18 February 2017
    Description

    The 3rd International Conference on Food Design is the first 100% Virtual conference on Food Design.

    The 3rd International Conference on Food Design is supporting a new conference format for academics and professionals. A conference made of LIVE presentations, live chats, virtual roundtables, and virtual exhibitions. And because this conference is 100% virtual, it is 100% free. Free to participate, free to attend.

    All themes are open to designers and researchers from any background, including, but not limited to: Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Food Science, Food Technology, Food Product Design, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Food Packaging Design, Interior Design, Architecture, Sustainable Design, Eating Design, Food Service Design, Food System Design, Critical Food Design, Conceptual Food Design, Design History, Food History, Design Studies, Food Studies.