Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network founder 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 than ... 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, The Emily Carr DESIS Lab, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada 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 “giv... read more
Written by Davide Fassi, PoliMi DESIS Lab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 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 w... read more
Written by Miaosen Gong, Jiangnan DESIS Lab, Jiangnan University, China In the DESIS newsletter in this July, Prof. Ezio Manzini opened a discussion on environmental concern of DESIS initiatives, which I think would be very helpful to review our trajector... read more
Written by Nicola Morelli, AAU DESIS Lab, Aalborg University, Denmark One day, about 25 years ago, in an office of the Submarine (a section of Politecnico di Milano, so called because its office were below the street level), professor Manzini started a ... read more
Written by Virginia Tassinari, PoliMi DESIS Lab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Clearly the exceptionality of the environmental emergency we are witnessing today requires specific efforts in terms of thinking/acting in designing. The consequences of anthrop... read more
Written by Anna Meroni, PoliMi DESIS Lab, Politecnico di Milano, Italy It is an instructive experiment to look at humankind’s actions as slow, yet progressive, efforts toward civilisation, in a trial and error journey. Not all actions of course, but t... read more
Written by Joon Sang Baek, Yonsei University DESIS Lab, Yonsei University, South Korea In this year’s Social Design Forum organized by the Seoul Metropolitan Municipality, people from the public, private, and civil sectors as well as academics gathered ... read more
Written by Carla Cipolla, DESIS Coordinator and UFRJ/Coppe Rio DESIS Lab, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DESIS Conversations 2020 has been a discussion about the present and the future of social innovation, design and sustainability. The ope... read more