Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS 2012)

Date: 18th - 19th April 2012
Place: School of Design, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Directions: Directions can be found on the right of this page

“Articulating Design Thinking”
On the 18th and 19th April 2012, the School of Design, Northumbria University will host the Design Thinking Research Symposium 2012 (DTRS 2012).  The symposium entitled, “Articulating Design Thinking”, will be run along similar (but different) lines to the workshop-based events that we have seen in past DTRS and related events such as the “Delft Protocols” in 1994, the DTRS7 event “Analysing Design Meetings” in London in 2007, and the “Studying Professional Software Designers” workshop held at the University of California, Irvine in 2010 wherein a number of invited workshop delegates were asked to respond to a given common set of data (i.e. video recordings and transcripts).

This time DTRS 2012 researchers were asked to set up their own formal studies and were asked for their responses to a common design brief. The aim here in this novel approach is to get a diverse set of different perspectives on the analysis of design thinking and action that would be complementary to previous analyses. That is, we are interested in articulating not only different analyses of sets of data, but in the different approaches to design activity via the set common design brief. In other words, we were interested in using a generic design brief to generate a variety of data sets and their subsequent analyses.

BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW!
To book your place to attend DTRS 2012 please register using the button above.  All details on costs etc can be found on the registration page and if you need any travel or hotel information you can use the downloadable PDF guides on the right of this page or email paulandrew.taylor@northumbria.ac.uk

DTRS 2012 Programme
The full programme* for DTRS 2012 is now live and available for you to view and download!  All 13 paper authors and titles are revealed as well as a full run down on registration and timings for the event. 

*Programme is correct at time of publishing but may change.

Additional Information
More information on past DTRS events can be found here: http://design.open.ac.uk/cross/DesignThinkingResearchSymposia.htm

For any queries on DTRS 2012 contact Professor Paul Rodgers Paul.Rodgers@Northumbria.ac.uk

For queries regarding the DTRS 2012 conference proceedings please contact Paul Taylor Paulandrew.Taylor@northumbria.ac.uk

DTRS 2012 Review Board
Chair – Paul Rodgers, Northumbria University, School of Design
Linden Ball, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
John Clarkson, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Nathan Crilly, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
Nigel Cross, The Design Group, The Open University
Ken Friedman, Swinburne University of Technology, Faculty of Design
Gabi Goldschmidt, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Ann Heylighen, Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Peter Lloyd, The Design Group, The Open University
Rachael Luck, School of Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading
Ben Matthews, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Janet McDonnell, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Nick Spencer, Northumbria University, School of Design
John Stevens, Northumbria University, School of Design
Cameron Tonkinwise, Parsons The New School for Design, School of Design Strategies
Bob Young, Northumbria University, School of Design
Norbert Roozenburg, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Graham Green, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Glasgow
Robin Adams, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University
Rivka Oxman, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology.