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The ServDes conference committee welcomes proposals to host the Service Design and Service Innovation conference, ServDes.2023. This will be the 8th edition of the biannual ServDes conference, following Oslo (2009), Linköping (2010), Helsinki (2012), Lancaster (2014), Copenhagen (2016), Milan (2018) and Melbourne (2021). ServDes is the premier research conference for exchanging knowledge within Service Design and […]

RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia NEW Conference dates: 2nd-5th February 2021 As the field of service design matures, questions of the impact of its practices, including a robust evaluation of its methodological gaps, potentials, limitations and claims, become necessary. Being held for the first time outside Europe and in the Asia-Pacific, ServDes.2020 invites you to focus […]

ServDes.2020: Tensions / Paradoxes / Plurality RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia NEW: Conference dates: 2nd-5th February 2021 Conference dates: 6-9th July 2020 Service Design Melbourne Slack: https://sdmelb.slack.com #servdes2020 Please go to www.servdes2020.org for more information ServDes.2020 will be hosted by the School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. RMIT is a global university of technology, design and […]

Forming a Cumulus Working group for Service Design, November 3 This is an open invite to a meet-up to form a Cumulus working group for education, teaching and learning in the area of service design. Date: 3rd november 2018 Location: Wuxi, Cumulus conference As more designers work in areas where a service perspective is dominant, […]

Proceedings are published ServDes.2018 proceedings are now published on the Linköping University Electronic Press. You may find the full document or single papers on both our website and on LiU E-press. If you are an author, we kindly ask you to check your paper and send an email to info@servdes.org if you find a problem. […]

Workshop Descriptions We are glad to announce the full list of workshops that will be conducted during the next ServDes 2018 Conference in Milan. In the following, you can find a brief abstract about each of the eight proposals. Participants to the conference will be free to choose where they want to join the conversation. […]

Our conference programme is ready and full of transversal content, experienced participants and wonderful locations around Milan. We are looking forward to joining the discussions. WHAT IS HAPPENING ON DAY 1? Monday, June 18 For those participants who are arriving early: you are invited to join the Complimentary Pre-Conference Workshop “Gamification for Service Design and […]

Global call for ServDes.2020 The ServDes conference committee welcomes proposals to host the Service Design and Service Innovation conference 2020, ServDes.2020. This will be the 7th edition of the biannual ServDes conference, following Oslo in 2009, Linköping in 2010, Helsinki in 2012, Lancaster in 2014, Copenhagen in 2016 and Milan in 2018. ServDes is the […]

Call for workshops Service Design has now become a mature field for academic research that, in a constantly dynamic evolution, touches upon economy and society, private and public sectors, human and technological perspectives. ServDes.2018 invites design researchers to explore the most recent and exciting evolutions of this research area also beyond academic papers. We are […]

ServDes.2018 Service Design Proof of Concept Politecnico di Milano, Milano, June 18-20, 2018 Dear colleagues, Due to many requests, we are pleased to announce the call for academic workshops for the conference ServDes.2018 available at: LINK Service Design has now become a mature field for academic research that, in a constantly dynamic evolution, touches upon […]

Politecnico di Milano, Milano June, 18th 2018 We are pleased to announce that the call for applications for the “PhD Special Seminar” is open. “PhD Special Seminar: unfolding a proof of concept” is a seminar dedicated to PhD candidates and Early Career Researchers within the ServDes Conference. Are you applying to the ServDes 2018 Conference […]

The call for papers for is now closed! We are excited about the 111 papers submitted. In the coming weeks, we will be managing the blind review process and will start to organize the other activities connected to the conference, such as PhD special seminar, workshops, meetings and, of course, the program. Thank you all!