The Asia Design and Innovation Conference (ADIC) was held on December 5 and 6, 2024, in Shanghai, China, as the event of the Asia Chapter of the Design Society. ADIC 2024 was hosted by the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University.

ADIC is an expanded continuation of the Asia Design Engineering Workshops (A-DEWS), held in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 as the events of the Asia Chapter of the Design Society (DS). The DS Asia Chapter has started in 2014 with the mission to foster collaboration in design research, education and practices in Asia while connecting to the other active communities of design research and education.

ADIC 2024 program included keynote speeches, invited theme speeches and discussions, presentations of full papers and presentation-only papers, and networking. While ADIC is the event of the Asia Chapter, paper presentations and participations from other regions than Asia made ADIC 2024 support the mission of the Asia Chapter and DS very well.

Professor Yong Se Kim of the College of Design and Innovation, gave the opening speech as the chair of the conference with explanation of the Design Society and the Asia Chapter. Vice Dean Nan Cao of the college greeted the participants with his welcome speech. ADIC 2024 also presented excellent keynote speeches by Vice President Yongqi Lou of Tongji University, Dean Juyoung Chang of School of Design at Dongseo University, and Professor Jarmo Suominen at the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University. A discussion session was also held with invited theme speeches by Professor Cees de Bont, the head of the industrial design division, National University of Singapore, Professor Jianxi Luo of City University of Hong Kong, and Professor Tobias Larsson of Blekinge Institute of Technology. 96 registered participants attended the 2-day conference.

After peer review process of the full papers, 53 papers have been presented from more than 90 submissions as well as 9 presentation-only talks, in 9 contributed sessions titled as Product-Service Systems Design, Experience and Service Design, Sustainable and Environmental Design, Design Thinking and Culture, Creativity and AI, Design Learning and Education, Emotion and Human Behaviors, AI in Design, and Design Process and Methods. These sessions were moderated by 17 leaders in respective areas including 6 Tongji D&I professors Fei Hu, Huasen Zhao, Duan Wu, Eun Ji Cho, Kostas Terzidis, and Qi Wang.