Today 6th of November is taking place in Ljubljana the Final Conference of the ID:WOOD Project: Clustering knowledge, Innovation and Design in the SEE WOOD sector, started two years ago and co-financed by Transnational Cooperation Programme South East Europe. The event has been preceded by the 3rd international scientific conference A.L.I.C.E. on the topic “Bridges between design and management” organized by the Faculty of Design in Ljubljana, aim to raise awareness of design and management. The conference brought together researchers and professionals from academia, arts, design, business and industry to present their innovative work and discuss all aspects and challenges in a stimulating environment.

The aim and purpose of the Conference is to bring into dialogue diverse characteristic of both fields. We are looking for interdisciplinary themes that address problems from multiple theoretical standpoints, from both areas of design and management. Design Management is a business discipline that uses project management, design strategy to control a creative process, support a culture of creativity, and build a structure and organisation for design. The objective of design management is to develop and maintain a business environment in which an organisation can achieve its strategic goals through design, and by establishing and managing an efficient and effective system. Design management is a comprehensive activity at all levels of business from the discovery phase to the execution phase. More and more organisations apply design management to improve design-relevant activities to better connect design with corporate processes.

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