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News

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What the Academy is doing, where it has been and what it is reading.

EHV Innovation Cafe

RSD15-São Paulo by Systemic Design Association.

Meeting Tsinghua Professor Sai Ma to Discuss Design, AI and Ethics

Four Weeks Teaching the Design Framework at Henan University

Examples

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Projects, places and practices that show the Framework at work, drawn from the book and its sources.

A woman in a work jacket with a round chest patch holding up a square metal mold with a pink hexagonal piece inside.

Precious Plastic

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The Craftsman (Richard Sennett)

A row of pink and white multi-story homes along a narrow street, with residents and children outside.

Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore

India

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) "Seventh Generation" Principle

Books and references

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The books, reports and platforms the Academy recommends, with where to find each one.

Design for How People Learn

Julie Dirksen · 2011

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Design, When Everybody Designs

Ezio Manzini · 2015

An illustrated shelf of retro objects — a vintage computer, camera, red telephone, red pitcher — on pale blue.

Industrial Design A-Z

Charlotte, Peter Fiell · 2016

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Product Design

Alex Milton, Paul Rodgers · 2011

Ethics instruments

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Treaties, declarations and codes that set out what design owes to people and to the planet, article by article.

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Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region (Noumea Convention / SPREP Convention)

Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) · 1986

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Icograda Design Education Manifesto (2011)

Icograda, International Council of Graphic Design Associations, later the International Council of Design (ico-D); presented at the Icograda General Assembly, Taipei · 2011

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ILO Core Labour Conventions (Nos. 87, 98, 29, 105, 138, 182, 100, 111, 155, 187) — combined core-principles summary

International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN specialized agency · 1930

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European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) — core principles summary

Council of Europe · 1950

Opportunities

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Calls, funding, jobs and gatherings worth knowing about, gathered by the Academy and its community.

Postdoctoral researcher and design educator 100% I Project duration 3 years from LUCA School of Arts

job

Research Associate in Regenerative Design Research, Becoming Regenerative

job · London, United Kingdom

Environmental Program Coordinator (Temporary), Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation

job

European Week of Regions and Cities 2026: Strong Regions, Strong Europe

congress · Brussels, Belgium

Academic papers

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The papers, chapters, reports and pages the Academy is fond of.

Socially responsible design: thinking beyond the triple bottom line to socially responsive and sustainable product design

G. Melles, I. de Vere, V. Misic · 2011

A systems theory perspective on the relationship between practice and research in the making disciplines

K. Riis · 2013

On the history of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “General Systemology”, and on its relationship to cybernetics – part III: convergences and divergences

M. Drack, D. Pouvreau · 2015

Rethinking Design Thinking: Part I

L. Kimbell · 2011

Journals

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The journals and magazines the Academy follows, with what each one publishes and where to find it.

Sciences du Design

Presses Universitaires de France (Humensis), in partnership with Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and École de Design Nantes Atlantique · France