The goals of the Society are:

• improving the design and development process
• building a design community
• increasing our impact on educational practice

The members are:

designers and project leaders with outstanding records, together with some representatives from government agencies and foundations that fund such work.

The 2008 conference is on:

Linking design research to professional educational design

June 29 - July 2, Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands

This conference is being hosted by the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education.

This conference will bring together outstanding designers and design project leaders from a number of countries around the world, including the US, the UK, Australia, Japan and the Netherlands, together with a few people from the agencies which commission or support such work. We wish to include designers from developing countries and welcome help in identifying such people.

For more details, see the conferfence website at www.fi.uu.nl/isdde.

Who can attend?

The Society is still in its development stage. For the first three conferences membership and / or attendance were by invitation at the discretion of the Chair. The members are designers and project leaders with outstanding records, as well as a number of representatives from government agencies and foundations that fund such work

ISDDE 2008 will be open for all designers/researchers who feel affinity with the goals of the society. The number of participants, however, will be limited to 100.

The 2009 conference:

The ISDDE 2009 conference will take place on Monday 28 September– Thursday 1st October, 2009 in Cairns, Australia. Click here for more details.

For further information:

contact the Chair: Hugh.Burkhardt@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel. +44 115 951 4411