Pearl Diver Elisa Bertolotti, Heather Daam, Francesca Piredda and Virginia Tassinari “Presently, we encounter a wide variety of ways in which designers tell stories of social innovation. This encouraged us to start a reflection on the idea of storytelli... read more
DESIS supports the Open Letter to the Design Community Stand Up for Democracy April 2017 The following is an open letter from Professors Victor Margolin and Ezio Manzini urging all designers to act and respond to the crisis affecting democracy. It is impo... read more
DESIS Network International coordination “special project” Plan proposed by the IC (international coordinator) candidate Carla Cipolla and approved in the DESIS Assembly – Cumulus Hong Kong: Carla Cipolla (desis.coordination@gmail.com) DESIS Lab c... read more
THE DESIS MAP (Send us feedback and ideas about the map in the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1244948655616919/) Since its foundation, DESIS Network has recognized the value of its labs. Design for social innovation and sustainability is... read more
How can design leverage social-innovation to orient city-making processes towards resilient, sustainable and collaborative cities? This question has been the general background on which the DxCM (Design for Collaborative Cities) Conference was built with ... read more
In the past 10 years, the DESIS Labs, which represents the nodes of the DESIS Network, has set up and participated in a large number of social innovation-related projects. Looking at them, we can easily observe that they take place in different areas of a... read more
“Design-for-Sustainability’ (DfS) promotes products, services, and systems that deliver positive impacts to society, the environment, and the economy. In the South-to-South event, DfS educators from Australian and Latin American universities wil... read more
In the past 10 years, the DESIS Labs have set up and participated in a large number of social innovation-related projects. Looking at them, we can easily observe that they take place in different areas of application and adopting different tools and strat... read more
Connecting people and generating public spaces: city-making based on the social dimension, via light projects with the capacity to reweave the social fabric. These projects stem from concern about the social cohesion crisis, and propose collaborative acti... read more
Building place-related and place-caring communities: city-making based on communities-in-place: communities whose existence is motivated by a specific space. These projects relate to a physical space and they are aimed at creating a community that relates... read more