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Categories Archives: Conversations 2020

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Social Innovation for the Planet

  • 2 September 2019
  • Ingrid Bico
  • Conversations 2020

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

Social Innovation and the Environmental emergency: How Design can contribute in this scenario?

  • 2 September 2019
  • Ingrid Bico
  • Conversations 2020

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

Social Innovation and Biodiversity, or the Merit of Salamanders

  • 19 September 2019
  • Ingrid Bico
  • Conversations 2020

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

Social Innovation for the Planet: Small groups, great ideas

  • 9 October 2019
  • Ingrid Bico
  • Conversations 2020

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

A Response of “Social Innovation for the Planet”

  • 17 October 2019
  • Matheus Ventura
  • Conversations 2020

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

Are we thinking radically enough?

  • 22 October 2019
  • Matheus Ventura
  • Conversations 2020

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

Designing as politics of nature

  • 24 October 2019
  • Matheus Ventura
  • Conversations 2020

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

Co-design: future initiatives, sustainability and moving toward civilisation

  • 9 November 2019
  • Matheus Ventura
  • Conversations 2020

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

Design for sustainable development goals

  • 18 November 2019
  • Matheus Ventura
  • Conversations 2020

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

Students as a powerful driving force for DESIS

  • 6 February 2020
  • Ingrid Bico
  • Conversations 2020, News

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

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