Ezio Manzini 2 May 2017 We have a new tool: the DDP – Design and Democracy Platform (http://www.democracy-design.org): a digital platform to gather, analyse and give visibility to activities that are directly or indirectly linked to the “St... read more
Open Letter . Stand Up! Design for Democracy Arianna Mazzeo – Desislab Elisava Design is a social act. We as designers have the capability to explore citizen-centered design approaches far away from the smart city point of view. This transformative... read more
Carla Cipolla 02.05.2017 In less than one months, the 1st of June, in the framework of the Cumulus Conference, in Kolding, the DESIS Network Assembly will take place. As always, it will be an important opportunity to meet and discuss where we are and wher... read more
(New) Public Goods in The Journal of Design Strategies (2016) Building on the work of Public & Collaborative (the DESIS thematic cluster), a special issue of The Journal of Design Strategies considers the import of design practices concerned with t... read more
Carla Cipolla DESIS International Coordinator Dear members, this letter is particularly addressed to those who are interested in the DESIS network development. It is a bit long and I have written it as a personal and open letter. ————— No presen... read more
Arianna Mazzeo A shift from public service-dominant logic to the co-creation and co-design of public goods. Bruxells is well known as Eu motherhood, the centre of all the Eu Policies and Scenarios. We challenge policy-makers to start an experiential journ... read more
Arianna Mazzeo Cast aside your troubles and come to the land, to Sardegna Island, around the Omodeo Lake, to join us in our slow creativity campus and decide to share and to be free. In a time where technology speed toward a new urban future, rural existe... read more
July 2017 Ezio Manzini Thanks to our International Coordinator’s efforts, we finally have a map of what the DESIS Labs are doing. Of course it is not perfect (not all the considered projects were sufficiently up-dated) and it can and will be improve... read more
Anna Seravalli, Mette Agger Eriksen & Per-Anders Hillgren Abstract The public sector, increasingly acknowledging a need for change but strongly influenced by market logics, is experimenting with new forms of co-production of public services ... read more
Carla Cipolla, Bibiana Serpa and Rita Afonso Abstract: How to encourage university-community engagement with local communities and disadvantaged groups? This is one of the main questions of the project LASIN – Latin American Social Innovation Network... read more