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🎓 Introducing our Plenary Speaker, Charlotte Barker.

Charlotte Barker is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Designers in Ireland, the trade association for commercial designers on the island of Ireland. Charlotte sits on the Government Forum for Digital Creative Industries and supports the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to progress the action plan for Designing Better Public Services. She is a member of An Bord for the National College of Art and Design.

After 20 years of agency life Charlotte took the reins of the IDI in 2020, leading the IDI into a new era, embracing new programmes and partnerships to raise the profile and impact of Irish design. This includes instigating the sustainability platform Design Declares in collaboration with the 100 Archive, and leading a programme of work under the Roadmap for Digital Creative Industries.

Charlotte recently led Design 2035, a research project to create a vision of where Irish design will be in 10 years’ time. It provokes how, as a design community, we fully embrace the opportunities that are available to designers and ready ourselves for the future.

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📣 Early registration deadline approaching for 2026 Imagining Creative Worlds. Confirm your place in the online symposium and save with early rates.

🗓️ Early Registration Deadline: 11 August 2026
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🏆 Final reminder: Emerging Scholar applications for 2026 Imagining Creative Worlds are due soon. Early-career researchers, graduate students, and emerging practitioners are encouraged to apply and participate in the symposium community.

🗓️ Final Emerging Scholar Deadline: 11 August 2026
🔗 Apply: https://tinyurl.com/w6kfb5dp

Introducing 2026 Imagining Creative Worlds, part of the Common Ground Imagining Futures Series, taking place 11–12 November 2026 online on the CGScholar Symposium Platform. This annual online symposium creates a focused space for exchange across arts, image culture, design, media, communication, publishing, libraries, museums, curation, and public culture. Save the date and join a global community imagining creative worlds.

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🏆 We invite early-career researchers to apply for the Emerging Scholar Award. Showcase your work at the Twenty-First International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. 🌟 Submit your application by:

🗓️ Deadline: 27 July 2026
🔗 Details: https://tinyurl.com/czrysk8s

📖 Your Research Matters 📖 The Design Principles & Practices Journal Collection is now accepting submissions. We welcome original research and thought-provoking articles. Don't miss the chance to share your work with a global audience.

📅 Submit by: 15 July
🔗 Submit now: https://tinyurl.com/22jn8s7e

The International Award for Excellence for the Design Principles & Practices Journal Collection, is Pelin Celik and Martina Maria Keitsch for the article titled “Social Dreaming in Systemic Design-Oriented Leadership (SDOL): From Mental Models to Futures Thinking”.

You can read more about the article and the journal award here:

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🎓 Introducing our Plenary Speaker, Elizabeth Resnick.

Elizabeth Resnick—a distinguished Professor Emerita and former chair of Graphic Design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston—is a globally recognized design educator, writer, and curator. She has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions, including the current traveling exhibition Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination. Her publications include Women Graphic Designers, Bloomsbury Visual Arts (2025), The Social Design Reader, Bloomsbury Visual Arts (2019), Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons (2003), and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall (1984). These works have further solidified her status as a thought leader in the field. She was awarded the 2025 AIGA Design Medal in recognition for her decades-long career as an educator, curator, and author.

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🤝 We are honored to collaborate with TU Dublin School of Art and Design as our host for the Twenty-First International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. 🌟 Together, we’re creating an inspiring platform for academic exchange, collaboration, and discovery!

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🌐Construyamos una comunidad académica más fuerte y conectada, en español o inglés. Comparta sus ideas, colabore con colegas y crezca profesionalmente.

🌐 Let’s build a stronger, more connected academic community in English or Spanish. Share ideas, collaborate with peers, and grow professionally.

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