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Join the Cumulus Working Groups meetings at the Cumulus Monterrey 2024 conference!

Design Across Boarders: United in Creativity
Time: October 16-18, 2024, Monterrey, Mexico
On-site: Tec Monterrey and UDEM.
Online: Zoom (free for all interested representatives of Cumulus member institutions), see the links with the groups below.
https://cumulusmonterrey2024.udem.mx/
Conference programme.
All times are local. (GMT-6) Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

CWGs are communities of practice created by and for our members to share expertise and engage on a diversity of topics that matter to our disciplines.

Through an evolving process of knowledge development and sharing, CWGs create a year-round space for virtual and in-person focused sessions to regularly increase engagement and communication on a variety of relevant and timely interests.

Wednesday October 16, 2024
TEC venue

11:30 – 13:00 Business, Industry and Innovation CWG
Chair: Christian Guellerin
Location: A4-119
Online Zoom link
More about the group. Speakers and contents of this meeting, read more here.

11:30 – 13:00 changed to 16:00-17:30 FINDER Future of Industrial Design Research and Education
Chair: Mariia Zolotova
Location: Tec A7-234
Online Zoom link
More about the group.

11:30 – 13:00 Women in Design
Chair: Archana Surana
Location: Library B-214
Online Zoom link
Meeting contents here. More about the group.

16:00 – 17.30 ReVeDa CWG
Chair: Lorenzo Imbesi, Loredana Di Lucchio, Enza Migliore
Location: Library B-215
Online Zoom link
Meeting contents here. More about the group.

16:00 – 17:30 CirroCumulus Student WG
Chair: Natacha Lallemand
Location: B-214
Online Zoom link

Thursday October 17, 2024
TEC Campus in the morning
UDEM Campus in the afternoon

9:00 – 10:30 X-files (International coordinators) CWG
Chairs : Stefan Sonntag, Maria Luisa Rossi, Minqing Ni, Bo Yang
Location: A4-121
Online Zoom link
Presentation of the the Mexican educational system.
More about the group.

16:00 – 17:30 Design Education for Social Change CWG
Chairs: Keena Suh and Eric O’Toole
Location: ESTOA/ Room 5
Online Zoom link Password:935896
Learn more about the group.

17:30 – 19:00 Fashion and Textile CWG
Chair: Natacha Lallemand
Location: ESTOA/ Room 5
Online Zoom link Password: 935896
More about the group.

Friday October 18, 2024
UDEM campus

09:00 – 10:30 Extraterrestial Cumulus Working Group
Chairs: Christian Guellerin, Dr Dolly Daou, Eija Salmi
Location: ESTOA/ Room 5
Online Zoom link Password: 502577

09:00 – 10:30 Intellectual Property CWG
Chair: dr. Gubicz Flóra Anna
Location: ESTOA/ Room 6
Online Zoom link Password: 62368
Theme: Design protection across borders
Meeting contents here.

11:00 – 12:30 Service Design CWG x SDN
Speakers: Mari Suoheimo, Miettinen Satu; Nicola Morelli; Salmi Eija; Judee Bendiola; Amalia De Götzen; Birgit Mager; Melanie Sarantou
Location: ESTOA/ Room 5
Online Zoom link Password: 502577
Service designing for rituals and life events
Service designers design services for different life events such as birth, marriages, death, anniversaries, graduations or even retirement. Many of the events are planned and others often not as in the case of death. In this working group we invite people to share about their research and design of rituals in services in the cases of life events. Rituals take part in the services as in a form of singing happy birthday for a birthday hero, baptism and pouring water in a head, or placing flowers on top of a coffin. We recognize how the rituals are connected in the values of the societies we live in and they are shaping the rituals of the life events. Today climate change is one that is changing the values, but also external impacts such as COVID-19 or natural disasters can induce new rituals. During the working group beyond small talks we will also have a workshop where the participants will be taking part in thinking about how they design for life events and how ritual design can play a role in the design of service systems.
More about the group.

14:00 – 15:30 Food Think Tank CWG
Chairs: Dolly Dou, Yanfang Zhang, Melanie Sarantou, Daniela Estrada
Location: ESTOA/ Room 5
Online Zoom link Password: 502577
Session’s title: Design your food identity with SDG Design international Awards
More about the group.

Other sessions:

Friday October 20, 2024

11:00 – 12:30 Cumulus Kyoto Design Education workshop
Chair: Roberto Iñiguez
Location: CRGS/ CR425 – Sala Polivalente (4th floor)

14:00 – 15:30 The Future of Cumulus workshop
Chairs: Lorenzo Imbesi, Roberto Iñiguez
Location: CRGS/ CR425 – Sala Polivalente (4th floor)

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