Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in collaboration with members of the Upstate New York and New York City chapters of the AIGA presents "The 1st Biennial Design Web Conference, " a pioneering conference with presentations streamed live October 22, 2008. The theme for 2008 is "Global Interaction in Design Education (GLIDE)."On the day of streaming, registrants will have access to content in the following types of innovative formats: live and/or recorded podcasts and webcasts, downloadable pdf files and Powerpoint presentations with voiceovers, telephone conferences, blogs and wikis. Key presentations streamed live will include synchronous Q&A sessions.

The fifth CDEN/RCCI International Design Engineering Conference will encourage a vigorous discussion on the teaching and practice of design engineering to cross the innovation gap - the gap between research and the design and creation of products, processes and procedures that help the people of Canada and the world. Submissions can include, but are not limited to, the philosophy of design; tools and techniques for effective and successful design; methods and tools for designing to meet needs; methods for and research into the assessment of design; teaching and promoting design; humanitarian design; design successes and failures; tear-downs of designs and design-processes; the infrastructure required for design; lessons and methods used in non-engineering design fields; design for commercialization; etc. The goal of the conference is to explore design practice and teaching that leads to better lives for Canadians.

C.A.S.T., The Centre for Architectural Structures and Technology - will host the first international conference on fabric formwork May 16-18, 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg Canada. This will be the first gathering of architects, engineers, builders, students, and manufacturers exploring recent developments in flexible fabric formworks for concrete structures in architecture and engineering. These two days of lectures and presentations by inventors, practitioners and researchers will focus on the new architectural forms made possible by this emerging technology. The conference will include workshop demonstrations of full-scale and model construction techniques.

The Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment (BuHu) at the University of Salford, UK, is organising its annual two-day International Conference for postgraduates researching in the field of the built environment. The 2008 event, hosted in the beautiful, historical city of Prague by The Czech Technical University of Prague (CVUT), is the 8th conference of this highly successful series.