Got something urgent to say about crisis, design, or the world we’re walking through?📣

For DDCon 2026 – By Design and By Disaster, we’re looking for 7 people, initiatives or small collaborations to share stories and practices that reclaim the future while co-creating it in the present.

7 minutes. Any format.
Talk. Performance. Song. Live act.
As long as it fits within 7 minutes.

We’re interested in bold, honest, unexpected contributions that can inspire action, strategy and research now.

📩 Send your application to [email protected]

🗓 Apply by March 30

Format:
→ 1 A4 page (text + supporting visuals)
Include: short intro, 3–5 keywords, and a brief abstract connecting your idea to this year’s focus.

This isn’t about polished presentations.
It’s about sharing something real.

#DDCon2026 #7x7Talks #ByDesignAndByDisaster #CallForContributions #DesignResearch #AcademicMastodon

Workshop deadline extended ✨

The call for workshops for By Design and By Disaster 2026 (DDCon) now closes on 7 March 2026.

If you’ve been developing an experimental, critical or practice-based workshop around design & disaster this is your extra time.

Details here:
https://designdisaster.unibz.it/call-for-workshops-by-design-and-by-disaster-2026/

Please share within your networks.

#DDCon #CallForWorkshops #DesignResearch #AcademicMastodon

📣 Important PWiP reminder — one week to go!

⏰ Deadline: 13 February 2026
❗️ Important reminder: This year’s PWiP page limit is 6 pages, including references.
We encourage all authors to review the updated submission guidelines before submitting.
We’re excited to see your work and welcome you to the DIS community! ✨
🔗 Call for PWiP: https://dis.acm.org/2026/provocations-and-works-in-progress/
#DIS2026 #PWiP #HCI #DesignResearch

This work treats typography as a physical artifact rather than a symbolic system.

The letter “A” is constructed from thick soap-glass, where color appears through optical refraction and internal reflection.
Air bubbles are trapped within the material, introducing natural irregularity without decoration.

A study of form, light and material behavior.

#Typography #MaterialStudy #3DTypography #GlassDesign #DesignResearch

The first issue of a sparkly new journal called 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 has been published! It's the journal of the Design Research Society, the academic association for the field of design research. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/DES/current

See e.g. the editorial by senior editor @hrwiltse 'Designing for (alternative) platformed relations' https://doi.org/10.1177/30497671251392180
#design #DesignResearch #platform #FluidAssemblages

B

This study treats typography as a physical body.

The letter is formed as a single cast metal object —
no parts, no joints, no assembly logic.

Material behavior defines the form.
Not styling.
Not symbolism.

#Typography #3DType #MaterialStudy #DesignResearch

C — Inflated typography study.

A capital letter formed by contained air and surface tension.
Creases and deformation expose internal pressure within a strict geometric form.

Typography approached as a physical system, not a graphic sign.

#Typography #3DType #MaterialStudy #DesignResearch #Photorealism