Conference Agenda

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10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
Appleton Tower, LT1
Appleton Tower, LT2
Appleton Tower, LT4
Appleton Tower, LT5
50 George Square, G.03
50 George Square, G.04
40 George Square, LG.09
40 George Square, LG.11
McEwan Hall Auditorium
50 George Square, G.06 (Room C1)
Appleton Tower, 2.12 (Room C2)
Appleton Tower, 2.14 (Room C3)
50 George Square, G.05 (Room E1)
50 George Square, G.02 (Room E4)
50 George Square, G.01 (Room E5)
Edinburgh Futures Institute, 1.35
Edinburgh College of Art, Evolution House, Room 4.17
PAPERS: The Expanding Role of the Architect in Multidisciplinary Collaboration
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Architectural Design Research: Present & Future Methods
11:00am - 12:30pm
Meetup: Rural Research Happy Half Hour
12:45pm - 1:45pm
PAPERS: Play design I: Exploring worlds
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Play Design II: Exploring practices
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Knowing with Care: Means and Politics
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Practicing with Care: Context and Specificality
11:00am - 12:30pm
PAPERS: Co-designing with Care: Methods and Materiality
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Making with Care: Artefacts and Practices
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 1)
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Design Philosophy: Amplifying the Unheard (Session 2)
11:00am - 12:30pm
Meetup: Public Design Studio
12:45pm - 1:45pm
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles I
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles II
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Designing for and with taboo
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Design and Infrastructure, Part I
11:00am - 12:30pm
PAPERS: Design and Infrastructure, Part II
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: AI and New Technologies
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Opening up Design Impact: Session 1
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Opening up Design Impact: Session 2
11:00am - 12:30pm
PAPERS: Designing Strategic Change: Business Capabilities and Roles
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Designing Strategic Change: Sustainability and Automation
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Culture and Knowledge
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Curriculum and pedagogies in design
11:00am - 12:30pm
PAPERS: Relational and Situated Design Practices
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Material, Mind, and Machine
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Sketching for thinking, expression, and information
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Visualizing Narratives
11:00am - 12:30pm
PAPERS: Sketching and generative AI
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Relationality as Reconciliation: Designing for Equiponderance
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: Design and Sustainability: Values, Behaviour Change and Direct Action
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: Design and Sustainability: Co-creation, Participation and Relationality
11:00am - 12:30pm
PHD HUB: How Do We Work Together? From Experience to Critical Understanding of Agency, Power, and the Conditions of Collaboration and Participation
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: Discourses in Design Research: Critiques, Black-Boxes, and Translations
4:00pm - 5:30pm
PAPERS: More-than-human data practices 1
9:00am - 10:30am
PAPERS: More-than-human data practices 2
11:00am - 12:30pm
PAPERS: More than Human Climate Futures: Affect and Relational Practices
2:00pm - 3:30pm
PAPERS: More than Human Climate Learning: Systems, Translation and Regeneration
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Design for Scotland
6:00pm - 8:00pm
CONVERSATION: Design Potluck: Shaping Metaphors for Better Practice
9:00am - 10:30am
EXPLORATION: Sensing the Future: Embodied and Dance Explorations of Seeing and Being Seen Through Public Digital Twins
11:00am - 12:30pm
CONVERSATION: Unsettling the Human in Design Research, Without Comfort: A Conversation on Antispeciesism as a Destabilizing Lens
2:00pm - 3:30pm
CONVERSATION: Researching Design in Policy and Governance: A Collective Reflection Through 60-Years of the Design Research Society Conference
4:00pm - 5:30pm
CONVERSATION: Changing Topographies of Transdisciplinarity Within Design
9:00am - 10:30am
CONVERSATION: Does Scotland Do It Differently? Exploring the Role of Design Within Participatory Governance
11:00am - 12:30pm
CONVERSATION: Unlearning Design: Through Relational Practice, Critical Sustainability, and Material Ecology
2:00pm - 3:30pm
CONVERSATION: Epistemic Systems in the Age of Embedded or Agentic AI
4:00pm - 5:30pm
CONVERSATION: Empathy in the Age of Artificial Simulation
9:00am - 10:30am
CONVERSATION: Designing for Future Heritage: Reframing Sustainability Through Cultural and Temporal Value
11:00am - 12:30pm
CONVERSATION: Roughing Up the Edges: Why Intentional Incompleteness Might Create Better Designs
2:00pm - 3:30pm
CONVERSATION: Rebalancing the Design Canon: Intersectionality, Invisibility and the Politics of Design History
4:00pm - 5:30pm
EXPLORATION: This Is Not Airport Noise – Analogue Field Sound Lab
9:00am - 10:30am
EXPLORATION: Queering Interdisciplinarity: A Workshop With Riso Printed Materials
11:00am - 12:30pm
EXPLORATION: Listening in Repair: A Mending Circle for Relational Care
2:00pm - 3:30pm
EXPLORATION: Designing Through Plural Lenses: Reflection on Making Intersectionality Actionable
9:00am - 10:30am
EXPLORATION: Evaluating the Quality of Transformation: Exploring Key Transformation & Thriving Indicators
11:00am - 12:30pm
EXPLORATION: Tangible Computation: Working With Biodegradable Materials As Interfaces
2:00pm - 3:30pm
EXPLORATION: Weathering With Microclimates: An Embodied Design Exploration of Extreme Heat Through Movement, Sensing, and More-Than-Human Relations
4:00pm - 5:30pm
EXPLORATION: Fairer Fashion by Design: Visioning Sustainability With Lego® Serious Play®
11:00am - 12:30pm
EXPLORATION: What Does a Qubit Feel Like? An Exploration Into Making Quantum Computing Tangible
2:00pm - 3:30pm
EXPLORATION: Co-intelligence: AI as a Persona or a Tool? Agency and Accountability in Human–AI Co-creation
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Meetup: DRS Design Philosophy Studio
12:45pm - 1:45pm
EXPLORATION: Co-crafting Through Rural Craft: Exploring Material Engagement As Knowledge Production Through Willow Weaving, Natural Plant Dyeing, and Textile Weaving
9:00am - 10:30am