Participation in Insight 2018

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Steffen and Bettina Minder joined the Insight 2018 International Design Research Symposium at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India. Insight 2018 is an international design research symposium for design educators, practitioners, design researchers and advocates of design. It brings together, on a common platform, design educators, practitioners, design researchers and advocates of design to reflect upon, discuss and debate what constitutes design research and design epistemology, its multi-faceted nature and forms, research ethics, issues in contemporary design research and its implications for design education and practice.

Prof. Dr. Steffen presented paper titled Transdisciplinarity: A Key Factor in Applied (Design) Research and Bettina Minder presented the research Embedding Design Strategies in Craft-Based Social Innovation Project: A Challenge of Different Understanding of Craft, a study conducted with Dr. Sabine Junginger and Elian Grüter.