Whether local or global, professional or amateur, online or physical — community and the dynamics it favors are increasingly at work in design and the marketplace it inhabits; changing the nature of what and how we design as it simultaneously reorients consumer behavior.
Over the four days of IDSA’s International Conference, COMMUNITY: YOU.ME.WE., we’ll explore the importance of community across multiple layers of design, exploring emerging social issues, the decentralizing influence of online resources in manufacturing and distribution, the interplay between local and global participants, and many others.
The Conference, will track along three subthemes:
- Attitudes and Behaviors: How societal factors such as 24/7 connectivity, social media and sustainability are changing the consumer; what they want, need and ultimately what it means to consume. We will be looking for presentations that explore shifting consumer behaviors.
- Methods and Means: The effects of community on how we think, work and execute in design. We are seeking presentations and talks that explore the new tools, venues and models with which design is conceived, developed, executed and ultimately distributed.
- Community as Context: How the needs of the individual, groups and the environment are impacting the design brief. In this category presentations examining social entrepreneurship, community initiated solutions, service design and in-the-field consumer research will be debated and explored.
Save the date and make plans now to join us for a conference that is guaranteed to make you think—not just about the profession, but also about the world in which you practice. Early registration opens in early June!