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CALL FOR PAPERS | SID ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2027 – DESIGN INTERSECTIONS

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CALL FOR PAPERS | SID ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2027 – DESIGN INTERSECTIONS

CALL FOR PAPERS | SID ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2027 – DESIGN INTERSECTIONS

CALL FOR PAPERS | SID ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2027 – DESIGN INTERSECTIONS

Published on 16 October 2026 in

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The Italian Society of Design (SID) is pleased to announce the opening of the Call for Papers for the 2027 Annual Conference “Design Intersections,” to be held in Bologna from June 30 to July 2, 2027, at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna.

The conference invites the Italian and international academic community to reflect on the relational dimension of design research, considering networks as the cultural, organizational, and design infrastructure of the discipline. The intersection identifies the generative space in which design connects knowledge, actors, and contexts: between disciplinary and application fields, institutions, territories, communities, and design cultures, between human and non-human actors, and between local and international dimensions.

The call is organized into three tracks: Connections. Shaping processes; Nodes. Materializing outcomes; Constellations. Visualizing networks. Research projects (full papers) and research ideas – emerging research stories (posters and short papers) are accepted, in Italian or English, and will be evaluated via double-blind peer review.

Venue: Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

Conference dates: June 30 – July 1-2, 2027

Submission of contributions: from September 30, 2026, to January 15, 2027

Notification of results: by April 8, 2027

Submission of revised contributions in English: April 30, 2027

ConfTool: link to be published soon on the SID website

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Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna

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