Call for Contributions
NORDES 2025 - RELATIONAL DESIGN
11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference
We are pleased to invite contributions to the NORDES 2025 Conference on the theme RELATIONAL DESIGN
Dates: 6-9 August 2025
Venue: OsloMet University, Oslo Norway
NORDES 2025 symbolises a collective arrival for our design research community at the completion of the first quarter of the 21st century. The conference offers a range of shared spaces and formats for reconsidering what we intended and may have achieved so far in design inquiry. Please consider joining in this celebration and opportunity to further shape the community!
This event also invites us to reconsider designing and related practices, pedagogies and research as we look towards the mid-21st century. We do so in the contexts of pervasive, difficult and emergent challenges, compound crises, and deepening complexities and uncertainties about how to achieve and secure substantive and durative transformation in a world undergoing rapid ecological and systemic demands and changes.
NORDES 2025 takes up the open theme Relational Design to offer perspectives and means through which we may together investigate and discuss complex dilemmas and current responses, along with design’s futures and futures designing.
Below please find the First Call for Contributions to a range of types that we hope will encourage your participation.
A Second Call will follow in a month that will contain details of submission types and links to templates and further practical information.
Looking forward to your contributions.
Please do feel free to circulate this call to your design research colleagues and doctoral students, institution, linked organisations and design research networks.
Conference co-chairs:
Prof Alma Culén (University of Oslo), Prof Laurence Habib (OsloMet) & Prof Andrew Morrison (AHO)
Current key dates and deadlines
Submissions open: 15 January 2025
Deadline Full and Exploratory papers: 14 February 2025
Deadline Workshops, Exhibitions & Doctoral Consortium: 28 February 2025
Notification to contributors: 31 March 2025
Final revised submissions: 25 April 2025
Final acceptances: 9 May 2025
NOTE: Registration is needed by presenters by 31 May to be included in the programme, archive and proceedings.
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.