Design has long been a practice of smoothing away the rough edges of the world. Designers continue to play a role in streamlining products, optimizing processes, improving efficiency within organizations, automating user experiences, making interfaces more “user friendly” or making services and systems more seamless. But, in the present moment, the world is kicking back.

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Northeastern University is a private R1 research institution in Boston, United States. Established in 1898, the university currently serves a total of 22,314 undergraduate students and 19,528 graduate students on its main campus as well as its domestic satellite campuses in Charlotte, North Carolina; Seattle, Washington; San Jose, California; Oakland, California; Portland, Maine; and its international satellite campuses London, England and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada.

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The Design Research Society is a multi-disciplinary learned society for the design research community worldwide. The DRS was founded in 1966, and since then has established a record of significant achievements in contributing to design knowledge.

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Harvard University Graduate School of Design
MIT Morningside Academy for Design
Design Museum Foundation
City of Boston Mayor‘s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Participation for DRS2024 will include a wide variety of formats: theme tracks, research papers, conversation sessions, workshops, labs, PhD consortium.

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