IMDES 2025: 3rd International Conference of Innovation in Media and Visual Design National Art Gallery Langkawi Langkawi, Malaysia, July 30-31, 2025

International Conference of Innovation in Media and Visual Design (IMDES 2025)

The IMDES 2025 is a conference and exhibition emphasizes the importance of innovative, thoughtful design solutions that bridge gaps and build connections between people, communities, and the environment to create a more sustainable future. We aim to be a catalyst for change, inspiring participants to develop and implement design solutions that contribute to a more sustainable and connected world.

Creating Connection: Intelligent Design for a Sustainable Future

The Innovation in Media and Visual Design (IMDES) conference and exhibition discuss the relationship between media, people, design, and technology as well as innovation, creation, and sustainability concepts resulting from those interactions. The event’s interdisciplinary approach draws on design, information, social science, and the humanities, offering/allowing not only to think/design what today’s design makes possible but also to invent new things on media and society can do using emergent technology. This conference is a sphere for those intellectuals who examine the conceptual design, praxis, and research discourse on the exploration of academic merits for the design field and others. The conference and exhibition will welcome theories, methods, and implementations of innovation in media and visual design. 

Submission Guidelines

This conference will welcome the theory, methods, and implementation of innovation in the realm of discussion about intelligent design for a sustainable future. IMDES 2025 invites papers describing original contributions in all fields of art and design associated with media, people, design, and technology as well as innovation, creation, and sustainability concepts resulting from those interactions, and related research areas. All submissions should be in English. For every accepted submission, it is required that at least one author will attend the conference to present the work.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

Authors should prepare the paper according to the conference paper template provided here

List of Topics

• Creating Connection: Intelligent Design for a Sustainable Future

• Sub Topic:
  • Design Theory and methods
  • Design Practices
  • Design Project, Participation & Collaboration
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Media and Digital Experiment
  • Culture and society
  • Psychology and perception
  • Economy and law

Committees

Advisors

• Dr. Andrey Andoko – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Prof. Ts. Dr. Ruslan Abdul Rahim – Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan, Malaysia
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Friska Natalia – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Prof. Madya Ts. Dr. Khairul Azril Bin Ismail – Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan, Malaysia
• Muhammad Cahya Mulya Daulay – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Fonita Yoliando – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Adhreza Brahma – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia

General Chair

• Dr.Sn. Yusup Sigit Martyastiadi – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia

Co-chairs

• Lalitya Talitha Pinasthika – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Lia Herna – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Julaila Nadia Paiman – Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan, Malaysia

Program Chairs

• Dr.Sn. Yusup Sigit Martyastiadi – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Dr. Suwito Casande – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Martinus Eko Prasetyo – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Vania Hefira – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Salima Hakim – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Agatha Maisie Tjandra – National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Bharoto Yekti – University of Glasgow, UK 

Program Committee

• Prof. Madya Ts. Dr. Khairul Azril Bin Ismail - Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan, Malaysia
• Dr. James Philip Cheng Boyle - Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan, Malaysia
• Prof. Kunio Kondo, PhD – Tokyo University of Technology, Japan
• Assoc. Prof. Paul Haimes, PhD – Ritsumeikan University, Japan
• Prof. Taketoshi Ushiama, PhD – Kyushu University, Japan
• Prof. Tetsuaki Baba, PhD – Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Prof. Phakkharawat Sittiprapaporn, PhD – Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand
• Hiroyuki Kajihara, PhD – Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan
• Tomas Chochole, PhD – University of West Bohemia, Czechia
• Prof. Eku Wand – Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany
• Muhamad Abdul Aziz Ab Gani, PhD – Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
• Muhammad Rizaldi – Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
• Danny Butt, PhD – Victoria College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Gideon K.F.H Hutapea –  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia  
• Dr. Fanny Suhendra – Swinburne University of Technology, School of Design and Architecture, Australia  
• Agatha Maisie Tjandra – National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Bharoto Yekti – University of Glasgow, UK
• Banung Grahita, PhD – Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
• Octavianus Cahyono Priyanto, PhD – Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Dr.Sn. Muhammad Fajar Apriyanto – Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• Dr.Sn. Ayu Soraya – Universitas Potensi Utama, Indonesia
• Dr. Marina Wardaya – Universitas Ciputra, Indonesia  
• Dr.Sn. Angga Kusuma Dawami, – Indonesia Institute of the Arts Surakarta, Indonesia  
• Hargyo T.N. Ignatius, PhD – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Dr. Ratna Cahaya Rina Wirawan Putri – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
• Dr. Lala Palupi Santyaputri – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia

Venue

The conference will be held in National Art Gallery Langkawi, Malaysia. 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to imdes@umn.ac.id.