Call for participants, Nordes summerschool 2024
Socio-ecologically Just Design after Progress
A PhD summerschool hosted by
Design after progress and Just Transitions
Norrköping, Sweden
17 june & 26-29 August, 2024
Designers and
design researchers are
part of making worlds. In times of
severe socio-ecological challenges,
this summer school invites
PhD-students to explore how to
make and know worlds differently.
As designers and design
researchers we use skills,
competencies, capabilities and
concepts that are haunted by
modernist ways of making worlds
that have been guided by
anthropocentrism, growth and
progress. It is however increasingly
recognised that this orientation
within design and beyond is highly
implicated in multiple unfolding
socio-ecological crises, including
climate change, pollution, and mass
species extinction. As designers and
design researchers we are also
making, breaking and maintaining
ideas and ideals about equality,
participation, justice, with
consequences on relationships,
governance and exclusion.
Current key dates and deadlines
- Application closes: 1 Apr 2024
- Notification: 3 May 2024
Program and application
Nordes – Nordic Design Research – is a network of people interested in design research and participating in the Nordes conferences, the Nordes Summer schools or other Nordes activities. Nordes is an open network that started with the first Nordic Design Research Conference in Copenhagen 2005. In addition to organising the bi-annual Nordes conferences and Summer schools Nordes promotes the publication and dissemination of design research through the Nordes Digital Archive.
The Nordes board is responsible for the program of the upcoming conference and also for all activities between conferences. The board consists of people from all Nordic countries, elected at each Nordes conference.