Please could you post this CALL FOR PAPERS, with the usual apologies for cross posting
Many thanks
Dr Alison Rieple
Professor of Strategic Management and Director of IDEaS - the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy Research Group
Westminster Business School
University of Westminster London, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
Design Management in an Era of Disruption
19th DMI: Academic Design Management Conference. Organized by DMI – The Design Management Institute (http://www.dmi.org)
To be held at the London College of Fashion: 2-4 September 2014, London, United Kingdom
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th January 2014
Deadline for submission of full papers: 16th May 2014
Full details of submission processes and timelines available from http://www.dmi.org/dmi/html/conference/academic14/academic.htm
CONFERENCE TRACKS
The conference is organised around 7 meta themes and 19 tracks:
1. Design in the creation of meaning
1a) Designers as cultural intermediaries in an era of flux
1b) Contemporary brand design
1c) Design management and artistic interventions
2. Transformational design management
2a) User-centred design (UCD): A disruptive business enabler for sustainable consumption?
2b) Exploring collaboration in product development: the good, the bad and the ugly
2c) Managing consumer involvement in product development
2d) Enterprise eco system design
3. Contextualised designing
3a) Co-creating shared value in service design
3b) Design in the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) in an era of disruption
3c) Social and sustainable design management
Design management futures
4a) New modes of design management
4b) Design management: future perspectives
4c) The role of designers in the shift towards product service systems
Design thinking, leadership and impact
5a) Design Leadership
5b) Public policy and services informed by a design approach
5c) Measuring the impact of design - and design thinking - in an era of disruption
5d) Design(ers) thinking and disruptive business model innovation: creating mental models or tangible models?
Educating Design Managers For Strategic Roles
6) Design Management Education
Open Track
7) Open track
Conference Organisers
Conference Patron: Michael Westcott, President, DMI, Boston USA; Conference Chairs: Dr. Erik Bohemia, Loughborough University, UK; Professor Rachel Cooper, Lancaster University, UK; Professor Jeanne Liedtka, University of Virginia - Darden Business School, USA; Professor Alison Rieple, University of Westminster, UK