Creative Competencies
We identify and publish new creative competencies that designers and art students need to adapt to prepare...
Cumulus Working Groups
Meet and collaborate with our Cumulus Working Groups, communities of practice created by and for our members to share expertise and engage on a diversity of topics that matter to our disciplines.
Design Education for Social Change
This working group aims at investigating the key aspects and innovative approaches of education on design for...
Designing response-able futures
This working group is dedicated to exploring and advancing the growing intersection of design and futures....
FINDER – Future of Industrial Design Education and Research
Through surveys, the group aims at mapping the research streams of the Cumulus member institutions with the...
Design for Placemaking
The CWG Design for Placemaking aims at investigating on a possible specific design perspective about the...
New Spaces/New Interiors
New Spaces/New Interiors Contemporary approaches to methods and cultural scenarios for learning and didactic...
Art and Design Teacher Education and Pedagogy (AADTE)
Art and Design Teacher Education and Pedagogy is a CWG that aims to aggregate expertise in art and design...
Leadership & Strategy
Design schools, media schools, and art schools have the unique chance to assert themselves as leading...
X-files (International Affairs)
With more than twenty years’ history, X‐files is the oldest CWG in the history of the association. It is...
BioDesign
Biodesign is an emerging discipline that harnesses biotechnology and living systems. Practitioners in the...
Business, Industry & Innovation
Business, Industry & Innovation is a CWG that explores the relationship between design schools and...
Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art is a CWG that aims to be a forum for international networking, a vehicle for the cultivation...
Design 4 Sustainability
Design 4 Sustainability is a CWG that addresses the following objectives: To identify appropriate...
Digital Culture
Cumulus Digital Culture is a CWG dedicated to Interaction Design & Digital Media. Activities, projects,...
Fashion and Textile
Fashion and Textiles Working Group (FTWG) is a CWG that focuses on education and research within the field of...
DEsign for Health, wellbeing and Aging (DEHA)
Healthcare represents one of the most critical sectors for the development of the well-being of society. It...
Food Think Tank
Food Think Tank investigates a number of critical questions for designers: how can design influence our new...
ReVeDA: Research Vectors in Design and Art
ReVeDA stands for “Research Vectors through Design and Arts,” and started as a Working group in 2014 born...
Service Design
Service Design focuses on education, teaching and learning in the area of service design. As more designers...
Women in Design
Women in Design is a CWG that presents a platform for exchange, inspiration, and mentorship. The aim of this...
About Cumulus Working Groups
Cumulus creates a space for members to gather in unique communities of practice that convene on a regular basis.
