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Dear All, You are _not_ required to submit a full paper to Wonderground. We welcome working papers. A working paper is what some conferences label an "extended abstract." We call this a working paper to clarify our intentions and to make life easier for those who have the kinds of funding rules that Nicola mentions. A working paper is work in progress. It is not finished. We allow up to 2,000 words for working papers. A good working paper, like a good extended abstract, should: 1) State the theme of the paper. 2) Promise a contribution. 3) Provide evidence for the argument that the author will present to reach the conclusion. 4) State the structure of the argument and showing how the author will develop it. 5) Show how the evidence and the argument will lead to a contribution. Evidence may include summaries of the author's empirical work as well as discussion from the literature. 6) Provide a selected reference list to support the working paper in the same way that a full reference list will later support the full paper. We invite THREE kinds of presentations: 1) Working papers - up to 2,000 words 2) Full papers - up to 6,000 words 3) Research exhibition projects - flexible criteria All three kinds of proposals will go through double-blind review. This is DRS policy at this time. Two independent referees from different nations will review each contribution. A referee with appropriate subject field expertise will review each proposal. There is also no need to worry about being rejected because your research methods do not appeal to the referee. An expert in structural equation modeling or an anthropologist specializing in HCI will not review research projects by historians and critics. For the same reason, we will not be asking a specialist in symbolic interactionism to review a paper using multivariate regression to study economic issues or a design critic to review a design methods contribution. Referees are more than gatekeepers. They are editors and coaches. The job of the referee is not to keep authors out of Wonderground. It is to bring them in and help them to deliver a good working paper, full paper, or research exhibition project. We may therefore ask reviewers with multiple kinds of expertise to review across disciplines when it serves our goal of helping authors to advance their work. Wonderground is an anthology conference. We are inviting the entire field of design research to Lisbon. Specialists will meet and share ideas. Many of us will talk across the boundaries of our specialties. All of us will find sessions that interest us. Each of us will avoid sessions that do not. We are free to talk participatory design or value engineering and we are free to avoid them in favor of design management or what-have-you. We plan a conference where each of us can help to create an environment where we can learn from each other and grow. The wonderful crew at Wonderground welcomes you all to Lisbon! Ken -- Ken Friedman Wonderground Co-chair Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language Norwegian School of Management Design Research Center Denmark's Design School email: [log in to unmask]