Academic and industrial organisations host regular events organised by DRS members enabling members to meet.

National One-day events are held from time to time such as:

The DDR Series in UK eg.
Designing Design Research 2: The Design Research Publication.
The next DRS national event is in Syros, Greece, July 2003. Contact: DRS (Greece) - Dr Artemis Yagou at yagou@pobox.com .(DRS member note: please contact your regional DRS Council member initially for support of a proposed event.)

International major events are organised by DRS members from time such as: 4D DYNAMICS:

An International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Design and Research Methodologies for Dynamic Form, 21/22 September 1995 organised in association with De Montfort University, Leicester and supported by the Chartered Society of Designers, England.

QUANTUM LEAP:

Managing New Product Innnovation: A DRS International Conference on Product Development Research hosted by the University of Central England in collaboration with the Bradford Management Centre. 8,9,10 September 1998.

A Biennial Conference is held at a different international venue.

The last such conference was: COMMON GROUND CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2002 A DRS International Conference on Design Research hosted by Brunel University. September 2002. For details of a CDROM containing full papers and additional material please email ari@staffs.ac.uk.

The next Biennial Conference is in 2004 and will be hosted by Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.