In light of social, economic, technological and environmental challenges, design researchers, practitioners as well as communities constantly critically address and question the contribution of design to the common good...

Deadline for Abstract Submission to our conference «Design as Common Good 2021» has been extended to 31 July 2020. Looking forward to receiving your papers.

New complex challenges and ideological shifts are shaking the very foundations of our society. Despite living in a highly informed and hyperconnected world, alienation and polarisation are evident in society. Digital media and communication tools are mostly perceived as progressive but they contribute to communication becoming increasingly abstract.

Questioning the Role of design in times of global transformations

Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland presents for the first time eleven selected essays on the production, mediation and consumption of graphic design artifacts and processes, as well as their respective discourses by authors from the German, French and Italian-speaking areas of Switzerland.

8th Swiss Design Network Symposium 9 November 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland