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Next DESIS Assembly (2018) at ServDes Conference in Milan

  • 2 October 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Dear DESIS Network members As you will know, we have always adopted the practice of organizing DESIS Assemblies side-by-side with conferences and, since the very start of our network, this has been done exclusively with Cumulus conferences. Next year howe... read more

COVALENT, a method for co-designing value exchange in community-centred design

  • 9 October 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Authors: Yoonyee Pahk, James Self and Joon Sang Baek COVALENT a method for co designing value exchange in community centred design   ABSTRACT It is challenging to design for mutually beneficial relationships in a multi-actor service system when these... read more

Co-design Workshops: Methods and tools for Social Entrepreneurship with Local Communities

  • 17 October 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Co-design Workshops: Methods and tools for Social Entrepreneurship with Local Communities co-design workshops Authors: João Sampaio, Teresa Franqueira, Marta Fereira Dias, Marlene Amorim, Liliana Ávila. Abstract: This article describes a set of work... read more

Seeking stronger plurality: Intimacy and integrity in designing for social innovation

  • 23 October 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Seeking stronger plurality: Intimacy and integrity in designing for social innovation 08 – Article – Akama Yee Authors: Yoko Akama, Joyce Yee   Abstract A seminal post-colonial scholar, Deborah Bird Rose (2004, 154) exclaims, ‘the w... read more

Design for Social Innovation supported by Social Based Technologies

  • 6 November 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

  Design for Social Innovation supported by Social Based Authors: Teresa Franqueira, Gonçalo Gomes Abstract: The use and democratisation of new digital technologies have given visibility to groups of people and grassroots organizations that can be... read more

Lay Designers: Grassroots Innovation for Appropriate Change

  • 14 November 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Author: Angus Donald Campbell DESI_a_00424_Campbell “This article intends to add to the current professional and academic design discourse on participation in a complex and highly networked society, with particular relevance to ethical, political, and ... read more

Co-Design in co-production processes: jointly articulating and appropriating infrastructuring and commoning with civil servants

  • 21 November 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

article – Co-Design in co-production processes Authors: 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... read more

A role for information architecture in design education: conceptualising indeterminate problems in design thinking

  • 28 November 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Authors: Terence Fenn, Jason Hobbs article – Conceptualisingindeterminateproblems Abstract: When faced with complex problems that are situated in social reality many design students struggle to formulate meaningful and articulate responses to these ... read more

DxCC | A new Thematic Cluster on design for city making

  • 4 December 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Ezio Manzini      29.11.2107 We are currently working on a new DESIS Thematic Cluster to investigate if and how design for city-making can play a role in generating, or regenerating, urban fabric. We already did a workshop on this theme in Shanghai,... read more

Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design (Greenleaf, UK 2016)

  • 11 December 2017
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Author: Robert Crocker CROCKERSEPINTRODUCTIONFINAL From Access to Excess In Life, the Universe and Everything, one of his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books, Douglas Adams describes a cricket match, at Lords in London, in an imagined future, where... read more

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