DRS 2026, the Design Research Society’s biannual conference, takes place from June 8-12 in Edinburgh, Scotland. This edition is the first since CAMD co-hosted the conference in 2024. This year, members of the Center for Design contributed to five theme tracks, seven papers and one conversation in the conference’s program. Congratulations to all!

Discover the full list of contributions from CAMD and Northeastern University in the button below:

Northeastern contributions aT DRS 2026

The Center for Design at DRS 2026:

Members of the Center for Design are indicated with an asterisk (*) next to their names.

Theme tracks:

1.5 Restaging Doing and Undoing Post-Anthropocentric Design

Corresponding Chairs: Tau Lenskjold, Li Jönsson
Co-Chairs: Alex Wilkie, Pablo Hermansen, Martin Carlos Tironi, Sissel Olander, Laura Forlano*

4.2 Reframing Practice: Architectural Design Research and the Expanding Role of the Architect in Multidisciplinary Collaboration

Corresponding Chairs: Manuela Triggianese, Juan Sádaba
Co-Chairs: Lee Moreau, Paolo Ciuccarelli*, Kees Kaan, Georg Vrachliotis, María Risueño

5.2 More-than-Human Design in the Real World: Resistance, Regeneration, and Radical Solidarity

Corresponding Chairs: Cristina Zaga, Iohanna Nicenboim
Co-Chairs: Elisa Giaccardi, Joseph Lindley, Arne Berger, Claudia Garduño García, Laura Forlano*

7.2 Toward LongevityTech Cities: Designing Age-Inclusive Urban Futures

Corresponding Chairs: Sheung-Hung Lee, Sofie Hodara*
Co-Chairs: Satu Miettinen, Bruce Hanington, Carla Sedini, Andreas Sicklinger, Miso Kim*, Joseph F. Coughlin

8.1 Public Design Education: Plural Practices and Situated Teaching and Learning

Corresponding Chairs: Luis García, Lara Salinas Alejandre
Co-Chairs: Sofía Bosch Gómez*, Geert Brinkman, Francesco Leoni, Estefania Ciliotta*

Papers:

Care-ful reorientations in design

Irem Tekogul, Laura Forlano*, Carlos Teixeira

Design education in multicultural contexts: Student perceptions of cultural inclusivity in the classroom

Jasmine Yiming Sun*, Najla Mouchrek*

Occupying the sensors: Underwater sound in an urban river

Sebastian Gonzalez Quintero, Dietmar Offenhuber*

Designing with care for the end of life: a reflective co-design workshop using material facilitation

Chenfei Yu*, Michael Arnold Mages*

Mediating Borders Through Sound: Sonic Boundary Objects in Infrastructural Listening

Paula Martin Rivero, Dietmar Offenhuber*

A Design Continuum for Autographic Sonification

Kajetan Enge, Dietmar Offenhuber*, Sara Lenzi*

Sustained Memory for Public Design in Latin America

Sofia Bosch Gomez*, Luca Gaspari, Tina Rosado

Conversations:

Exploring Temporalities for Transformative Futures

Dan Lockton, Femke Coops, Chris Speed, Laurene Vaughan, Kristina Lindström, Ann Light, Laura Forlano*, Colin M. Gray, Sarah Teasley