2026 The 8th International Workshop on Materials and Design (MatDes 2026) will be held in Barcelona, Spain on March 16-18, 2026 and it will be run alongside ICKEM 2026 (www.ickem.org). Modern engineered materials play a central role in enabling technological designs that underpin, advance and revolutionise engineering practice. By cooperating with the Elsevier journal Materials & Design, MatDes seeks to present applicable advances in the insight into structure and function, and provide useable and reproducible recipes for the synthesis, preparation, characterisation, modelling and exploitation of new metallic alloys, ceramics, polymers, coatings, composites and bio-materials systems.