Co-located at the Design Education Summit 2025
The 1st International Workshop on Design Education, Research & Practice
Co-located at the Design Education Summit 2025
Call for Submissions
Reframing Design Education: Futures, Practices & Pedagogies
We invite scholars, educators, designers, and practitioners to contribute to an edited volume that explores the evolving landscape of design education. This book aims to gather diverse perspectives, critical reflections, and innovative case studies that challenge, expand, and reimagine how design is taught and learned in the 21st century.
Scope & Themes
Please situate your work within—or critically against—key scholarship. Seminal texts are provided as orientation (you may cite others as appropriate).
- Future-Facing Pedagogies – speculative, participatory, decolonial, or post-disciplinary curricula (Freire 1970; hooks 1994; Dunne & Raby 2013)
- Design in Context – sustainability, social innovation, equity, technological change (Papanek 1971; Manzini 2015)
- Pedagogical Experiments – studio reform, assessment innovations, embracing failure as learning (Schön 1983; Cross 2006)
- Institutional Change – leadership, policy, curriculum reform, alternative learning spaces (Dewey 1938; Buchanan 1992)
- Global Voices & Local Wisdoms – under-represented geographies, Indigenous knowledge, Southern theory (Freire 1970; hooks 1994)
- Design Literacies – critical making, systems thinking, visual communication, creative confidence (Krippendorff 2006; Nelson & Stolterman 2012)
- Case Studies & Projects – reflections on specific courses, programs, tools, or community partnerships
Participation Requirements
Selected authors are required to register for the Design Education Summit 2025, indicating their participation in the 1st International Workshop on Design Education Research & Practice upon registration. Authors are expected to present their book chapter proposals at the workshop, with more information provided soon.
Who Should Submit
- Design educators and curriculum leaders
- Design researchers and theorists
- Practitioners in design-led learning, policy and governance environments
- Graduate students and early-career scholars
- Cross-disciplinary collaborators (education, technology, humanities, etc.)
Submission Guidelines
- Extended Abstracts deadline: September 15th, 2025 @ 23:59 GMT +8
- Abstract length: 300–500 words
- Notification of acceptance: September 26th, 2025
- Digital poster submission deadline: Oct 21st 2025 @ 23:59 GMT +8
- Workshop & poster presentations*: November 6th, 2025
- Full chapter deadline: February 1st, 2026 @ 23:59 GMT +8 (including signed publisher release forms)
- Chapter length: 4,000–6,000 words (including references)
- Submission format: Springer Template, .docx or .pdf format
Please email your 300-500 word abstract, a 100-150 word bio, and any questions to: CriticalDesign@proton.me.
Working title and format subject to change depending on publisher guidelines.
*(at least one [1] author must register for Design Education Summit 2025 and attend the workshop and present their A0-printed poster to publish a chapter in the subsequent book)
References
Cross, N. (2006). Designerly Ways of Knowing. Springer.
Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and Education. Macmillan.
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. MIT Press.
Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum.
hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge.
Krippendorff, K. (2006). The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design. CRC Press.
Manzini, E. (2015). Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation. MIT Press.
Nelson, H., & Stolterman, E. (2012). The Design Way: Intentional Change in an Unpredictable World (2nd ed.). MIT Press.
Papanek, V. (1971). Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change. Pantheon.
Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Basic Books.
The Editorial Team
Nadya Shaznay Patel
Nadya Shaznay Patel
Nadya Shaznay Patel
Assistant Professor
Singapore Institute of Technology
Karin Aue
Nadya Shaznay Patel
Nadya Shaznay Patel
Senior Lecturer
National University of Singapore
Tamsin Greulich-Smith
Jeffrey T.K. Valino Koh
Jeffrey T.K. Valino Koh
Director, Design Practice
DesignSingapore Council
Jeffrey T.K. Valino Koh
Jeffrey T.K. Valino Koh
Jeffrey T.K. Valino Koh
Associate Professor
Singapore Institute of Technology
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