We organize the forthcoming international conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG 2017), which will be held on 19 and 20 June, in Rotterdam.

This year the theme of the conference is Alive.Active.Adaptive,  which focuses on the experiential knowledge of designing with emerging materials that are alive, active and adaptive, whether by means of biological or computational processes or an integration of the two. The conference brings together design practitioners, researchers, engineers, architects and artists to discuss the future of emerging materials and its implications for design research and practice.