Activities

ADi is engaged in a number of projects and activities ranging from individual projects to larger collaborative activities focused on the advancement of design knowledge and application. All activities are based on the purpose of ADi as it is stated in the Mission Statement.

If you or your organization are interested in collaborating with ADi - please contact us. Contact person: Harold Nelson.

Research & Development

ADi works in collaboration with academic research departments to expand scholarly and pragmatic theories of design.

Ongoing activities are formed around the folowing themes:
• "Organizational Design Competence"
• "The Philosophy and Methodology of Design Disciplines"
• "Designing the Design Engineer"
• "Creating a Design Culture"

Design Learning

ADi promotes design education, mentoring and skill development through conferences, workshops, seminars and coaching both on individual, group and organizational levels. Examples of presentations and seminars:

• "After the engineer -- comes the designer"
• "A Systems Approach to Systems Thinking"
• "Design of IT-artifacts"
• "Design of Fire"

Design Consulting

ADi is engaged in helping individuals and organizations to become designers, design clients, and/or design customers. ADi offers its clients a close collaboration with the intent to develop design thinking and practice in organizations and by individuals. Contact person: Harold Nelson.

Promotion of Advanced Design

ADi's mission is to increase public awareness and acceptance of design ideas and applications. This is done in many ways.

• Advancing Design

A periodical from ADi with articles, editorials, comments, book reviews, etc. Contact person: Bob Sandusky.

• ADi Web Site

This is the site you are at just now. The site is a way for ADi to promote ideas and information on design to a larger audience. Contact person: Erik Stolterman.