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Many a night we've lain awake thinking "Why can't someone throw a conference based on design vis-a-vis the semantics of form and movement?"

Well, our prayers have been answered!

Design & Semantics of Form & Movement conference
December 12th and 13th
Northumbria University

Our focus is on the meanings of products and how designers communicate information, functions and ideas to enable these to be perceived and understood by people in their everyday lives.

We have 4 keynote speakers across the two days and 22 break-out sessions. In the break-out sessions researchers from around the world, including the USA, Australia and Indonesia, will be presenting the latest research in this exciting field of design. Our keynote speakers are:

Bernhard Buerdek, Academy of Art and Design, Offenbach am Main
Geoff Hollington, Hollington UK
Peter Higgins, Land Design Studio
Kevin McCullagh, Plan

Our facetiousness aside, this is actually the 3rd annual DeSForM conference. This one is co-sponsored by Philips and Faculteit Industrial Design, more info available here.