We would like to announce a call for papers for the 11th conference of the European Academy of Design, www.europeanacademyofdesign.org to be held in Paris Descartes University Institute of Psychology on April 17-19th, 2015.

The theme of the conference is the value of design research.

Design today is increasingly being recognized as creating value - whether for cultural and collective intelligence, for embedding new technology into new behaviours, for fostering or acting as a force for change in societies and for companies confronted with complex problems. This value is based on design research within a large variety of settings and scientific backgrounds.

The gestalt of the conference is "the whole is more than just the sum of its parts". Taking this principle to heart, the conference will bring together all stakeholders in design research and design process innovation. University labs, design schools, and R&D departments from industries have been invited.

The conference is organized around 4 meta-themes divided into 26 tracks:

Excellence in design research

1.  Methodology for design research
2.  Epistemology of design
3.  Design research and creativity
4.  The future of design research and publishing in peer-reviewed journals
5.  Design research and design education

Interdisciplinarity in the innovation process

6.  Exploring the partnership between designer and researcher
7.  Design research & innovation in luxury industries
8.  Design research & arts and crafts
9.  Design research in innovation management :emotion, Kansei engineering
10. Design research in innovation management : CK theory
11. Human factors as a source of value for innovative design
12. Design scenarios for innovative product and service strategies
13. Design research, NPD, innovation management & marketing
14. Interdisciplinary perspective on art, lifestyle and scalable business

Towards more human value in society

15. The value of design research for public policy
16. The value of behavioural change through design research
17. Research through design for prospective value
18. Design research in Industry  R&D strategy
19. Design research co-creating value with the consumer
20. The value of humanities for Design research

The value of design research for organizations

21. Can design research help measure design value?
22. Design thinking research and new business model. Design leadership.
23. Design research for making things differently with more dynamic & inclusive approaches
24. Enterprise design, Enterprise architecture, Research for user interface design
25. Design research for sense making, branding evaluation and semiotics
26. Designing "the whole of design research": visualizing and measuring excellence.