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Dear PhD Design List members, For all those who are interested. Best regards Arthur Chan www.lboro.ac.uk/lds -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 19th DMI: Academic Design Management Conference Design Management in an Era of Disruption Hosted by the London College of Fashion September 2–4, 2014 London, United Kingdom The Design Management Institute has issued a call for papers for the 19th Academic Design Management Conference to be held in London, UK September 2–4, 2014. We welcome early-career researchers and PhD candidates with work in progress. We are also seeking those interested in conducting workshops. The theme of the conference is Design Management in an Era of Disruption. The management of design has arguably never played such an important role as it does today. Changes to the business and social environment are making consumers more knowledgeable and discerning. Innovations and developments in new technologies make it possible to respond to these demands in the form of mass-niche, mass-customized, or micro-niche product strategies, leading to changes in business models and the location of manufacturing as consumers increasingly participate in the product design and development process. These are all indicative of major disruptions to the ways that products and services are designed, made, and distributed. The role of the designer is in many contexts transformed. The purpose of this conference is to explore how design management is changing in this era of disruption. The conference is organized around 7 meta themes divided into 16 tracks: 1. Design in the creation of meaning 1a) Designers as cultural intermediaries in an era of flux 1b) Contemporary brand design 1c) Design management and artistic interventions 2. Transformational design management 2a) User-centred design (UCD): A disruptive business enabler for sustainable consumption? 2b) Exploring collaboration in product development: the good, the bad and the ugly 2c) Managing consumer involvement in product development 2d) Enterprise eco system design 3. Contextualised designing 3a) Co-creating shared value in service design 3b) Design in the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) in an era of disruption 3c) Social and sustainable design management Design management futures 4a) New modes of design management 4b) Design management: future perspectives 4c) The role of designers in the shift towards product service systems Design thinking, leadership and impact 5a) Design Leadership 5b) Public policy and services informed by a design approach 5c) Measuring the impact of design - and design thinking - in an era of disruption 5d) Design(ers) thinking and disruptive business model innovation: creating mental models or tangible models? Educating Design Managers For Strategic Roles 6) Design Management Education Open Track 7) Open track Abstracts submission deadline: January 15th, 2014 Full papers submission deadline: 16th May 2014 Full details of submission processes and timelines available from: http://www.dmi.org/academic2014 Any questions please contact the conference via this email address: [log in to unmask] Conference Patron: Michael Westcott, President, DMI, Boston USA; Conference Chairs: Dr. Erik Bohemia, Loughborough University, UK; Professor Rachel Cooper, Lancaster University, UK; Professor Jeanne Liedtka, University of Virginia - Darden Business School, USA; Professor Alison Rieple, University of Westminster, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------