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DESIS Talks: results and next steps (the Thematic Areas – TA)

  • 12 December 2017
  • Davide Fassi
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  Carla Cipolla The DESIS Talks aims to discuss and define joint initiatives to be developed by DESIS members. The first two conversations took place through an online system (18 and 20 October) in two different time zones to allow – as much a... read more

Sharing Design Agency with Local Partners in Participatory Design

  • 19 December 2017
  • Davide Fassi
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Authors: Chiara Del Gaudio, Carlo Franzato and Alfredo J. de Oliveira Sharing Design Abstract: Partnerships with local actors are quite common in social design projects developed in unknown contexts. Several design researchers describe them as positive an... read more

Potential of Bamboo Bicycle Production for Promoting Sustainable Community Development in Rural Areas

  • 2 January 2018
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Author: Daichi Iwase Daichi Iwase – Potential of Bamboo Bicycle Production For Promoting Sustainable Community Development In Rural Areas Abstract: Today many rural areas across the world are faced with issues such as, depopulation, and an aging of... read more

‘Design doing’: what if we put more design into design thinking?

  • 9 January 2018
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Author: M. Rossi  article – MartinaRossi_Design_Doing Abstract: Today’s organisations are increasingly shifting their innovation processes from a top-down approach to bottom-up collaborative practices. These activities can involve multiple kind... read more

Empowerment by Design

  • 16 January 2018
  • Davide Fassi
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Author: Gjoko Muratovski Gjoko Muratovski – Empowerment_by_Design_Editorial The role of design as a strategic resource goes beyond the corporate sector and design is increasingly being seen as an agent of positive social change. Governments from aro... read more

Design-driven Strategies for Creative Social Innovation Ecosystems

  • 20 January 2018
  • Davide Fassi
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Authors: FREIRE, DEL GAUDIO E FRANZATO   ABSTRACT Purpose: Within the scientific literature on social innovation, several researchers from different areas are suggesting alternatives to promote, to sustain and to disseminate social innovation. However th... read more

Decolonising Design Research through Participatory Knowledge Creation

  • 30 January 2018
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Author: Angus Donald Campbell south africa – Decolonising_Design_Research Latin American Studies and decolonisation scholar Nelson Maldonado-Torres defines decoloniality as “the dismantling of relationships of power and conceptions of knowledge t... read more

OPEN DEMENTIA PROJECT: Empathic tools between magic and everyday life

  • 6 February 2018
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Authors: Yanki C Lee, Niels Hendriks, Albert S Y Tsang Open Dementia Project_Jan 2017_Cumulus Conference Paper HK Abstract: In Chinese society like in many cultures, persons with dementia suffer some level of stigmatisation. For this reason a dementia re... read more

Designing coalitions: Design for social forms in a fluid world

  • 13 February 2018
  • Davide Fassi
  • Articles

Author: Ezio Manzini Designing coalitions Design for social forms in a fluid world Abstract: The fluidity of the world produced by the diffusion of connectivity drives us to adopt a similarly fluid interpretation. Doing so, the products of human activity ... read more

Design for Social Innovation as a form of Design Activism: An action format

  • 17 February 2018
  • Davide Fassi
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Authors: Davide Fassi, Anna Meroni, Giulia Simeone article – Meroni_Fassi – Simeone_DesignforSocialInnovationasaformofDesignActivism-Anactionformat Abstract: This paper presents and discusses an in-progress action format developed through a ... read more

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