Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network president 1. I think that the environmental theme should be at the centre of our initiatives. And it should be so with a sense of urgency and adopting a radical approach. That is, with more urgency and radicalism tha... read more
Written by Teresa Franqueira, ID+ DESIS Lab, University of Aveiro, Portugal Ezio Manzini launched a new challenge to all Desis Labs’ and to the design community at large placing the climate and environmental sustainability at the heart of our academic ... read more
Written by Louise St. Pierre, Emily Carr University DESIS Lab This short paper responds to the DESIS 2020 call to respond to planetary urgency. In particular, I affirm Ezio’s statement that design should be “giving voice to entities that, in themselve... read more
Written by Davide Fassi, Polimi DESIS Lab In the development of design for social innovation projects, we got the habit to take sustainability for granted because it is part of our DNA as researchers. After an initial phase where the “sustainability tag... read more
Written by Ezio Manzini (DESIS President) and Edgard Quijano (DESIS DISCALab Caribe) The next DxCC seminar in Bogotá raises this very basic question: can we have collaborative solutions in highly challenging places? That is, in places where social and en... read more
In the past 10 years, the DESIS Labs have set up and participated in a large number of social innovation-related projects. Looking at them, we can easily observe that they take place in different areas of application and adopting different tools and strat... read more
Connecting people and generating public spaces: city-making based on the social dimension, via light projects with the capacity to reweave the social fabric. These projects stem from concern about the social cohesion crisis, and propose collaborative acti... read more
Building place-related and place-caring communities: city-making based on communities-in-place: communities whose existence is motivated by a specific space. These projects relate to a physical space and they are aimed at creating a community that relates... read more
Enhancing distributed manufacturing and the circular economy in the city: city-making intended to enhance a distributed urban economy by creating new value chains, and the social networks related to them. The common denominator of these quite diverse proj... read more
Improving the enabling ecosystem with a hybrid collaborative platform: city-making involving the creation of ecosystems where, thanks to the existence of an appropriate material and non-material infrastructure, a variety of communities and social networks... read more