Call for Papers

DESIGNA 2024 + CITIZENSHIP
International Conference on Design Research
October 24-25, 2024
University of Beira Interior (UBI)
Covilhã, Portugal
https://designa.ubi.pt/en/2024

Deadline for extended abstract submission: June 1, 2024

In a time characterized by the ecological emergency, the effects of economic neoliberalism and the constant threat to fundamental human rights, Design has been embracing causes that, although departing from its project matrix, break with disciplinary circumscription and many academic and professional conventions that have characterized it. However, many areas of traditional Design activity persist and coexist with progressive procedural hybridization, opening themselves up to contamination, but also nurturing other areas of cultural and economic action that are fundamental to contemporary urban life.

Design relates to multiple aspects of life in common, mediating relationships and projecting responses to pressing Citizenship issues, sometimes assuming a great ideological and political focus. Hence, the practice of Design in contemporary society demands a permanent and constant critical capacity in the face of the present, whether in professional responses or in its clear and recognized performance in formulating and articulating changes in social habits, imposed by the adoption of new values, motivated by the effects of austerity, climate change, pandemics or migration, among others.… read more. “Call: DESIGNA 2024 + CITIZENSHIP – International Conference on Design Research”