The 2027 Crafting Design Practices international conference events will be co-hosted by universities located in these three cities:
- Bergen, Norway | 23–24 September 2027
- İstanbul, Türkiye | 29–30 September and 1 October 2027
- Nanjing, China | 27–29 October 2027
Each hosting university has prepared a focused event to address their intended communities of scholars’ specific current and future development needs. This led to the development of three interconnected focused sub-themes, each furthering the 2027 international conference general theme.
The Western Norway University of Applied Sciences in Bergen, Norway, is planning to host a two-day workshop exploring the Crafting Design Education theory for Teachers Education.
Özyeğin University in İstanbul, Türkiye is planning to host a three-day conference event on the theme of Crafting Design Literacy in Action.
Nanjing University of the Arts in Nanjing, China, is also developing a three day conference on the theme of Crafting Innovative Design Education and Practices.
To acknowledge the diversity of the Design Education Research field, Özyeğin University and Nanjing University of the Arts invited a wide group of diverse scholars to guide the development of their events. In addition, Nanjing University of the Arts, the organisers, invited members from various design societies and interest groups such as the Design Society’s Special Interest Groups on Design Education (DS DESIG) and Design Sketching (DS DSSIG), the Design Research Society’s Special Interest Group on Design Innovation Management (DRS DIMSIG) and DRS Sketching Research Studio, the Academy for Design Innovation Management, and the Design Literacy International Network to steer the conference’s academic international development and to achieve a high academic rigour.
To achieve this objective, Track organisers from diverse backgrounds have been invited to overview the existing pathways, and to determine new ones for research, and set up the communities around specific interests by proposing specific subject matter themes.
By defining the subject matter and the extent to which the topics are explored the Tracks’ organisers will define the conference scope and provide the backbone of a conference call for submissions.
With the aim of making the process of defining a theme and organising a discussion around the selected theme seems beneficial beyond experienced researchers, and therefore, it was decided to give an opportunity to early career researchers in chairing a track for this conference.
Fishing for the Big Idea initiative is to incorporate early researchers into this conference.