Center for Industrial Production, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and Department of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University, invites you to participate in the NordDesign 2012 conference

An International Conference
This ninth biannual conference serves as a Nordic complement to the large European and American conferences within the field of Engineering Design and Product Development, but participants from other countries are also cordially welcomed.
The conference is organised in cooperation with the Design Society and complies to the Design Society’s rules and quality standards with respect to review process, publication etc.
A Nordic Approach
Our Nordic approach to product development in industry, research and education is based on cooperation between industry and academia. The cooperation is close and informal. Industrial companies allow researchers and students access to carry out empirical studies in practice, and companies offer student projects based on actual and important product development tasks. Students are expected to work responsibly and to synthesise results on operational as well as strategic levels. Nordic design education is based on contemporary research results.

Topics
The conference topic is design in a wide context: Integrated Product Development, Engineering Design, Industrial Design and Conceptualisation.
Suggested topics for paper submission are:
• Product Development:
Integrated, Multidisciplinary, Product life
oriented and Distributed.
Multi-product Development.
Innovation and Business Models.
Engineering Design and Industrial Design.
Conceptualisation and Innovative thinking.
• Research approaches and topics:
Human Behaviour and Cognition.
Cooperation and Multidisciplinary Design.
Staging and Management of Design.
Communication in Design.
• Design education and teaching:
Programmes and Syllabuses.
New Courses.

Integrated and Multi-disciplinary.
Researchers, practitioners and students are invited to submit papers to the conference within the above-mentioned topics, in a broad and general perspective. Especially, we encourage Ph.D-students to submit papers to the conference.

Important Dates
01. Feb 2012 Abstracts due
02. Mar 2012 Notification of acceptance
11. May 2012 Full papers due

Contact Address
Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen
Center for Industrial Production
Aalborg University
Fibigerstraede 16
9220 Aalborg, Denmark
Mail: kyvs@production.aau.dk