Nordes calls for perspectives on ‘Making Design Matter’. In the 2011 Nordic Design Research Conference, you are invited to present and discuss how design matters today. Conference will take place in School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland between 29th - 31st of May, 2011.

• Book of Abstracts is downloadable from this link. It includes also the detailed program of the conference, venue maps and event information.
• Nordes 2011 Proceedings is downloadable from this link (12mb), including full, exploratory and design case papers.
• Final program published on conference website.
• All the papers are downloadable also as separate PDF's here, in OCS system.

Nordes 2011 in Helsinki is the 4th in a series of biannual conferences, which has included conferences in Copenhagen in 2005, Stockholm in 2007 and Oslo in 2009. Organized by Nordes – an open network of people interested in design research in the Nordic countries – the conference is attended by about 200 people and has rapidly been established as an important venue for design research. It serves several constituencies in design, ranging from design studies, history and management to professional design and practice-based research in art, crafts and design.

Participation is also open to people from outside the Nordic countries.