In accordance with the vision that Cumulus has regarding the exchange of knowledge and design experience on a global and interdisciplinary scale, three Russian schools – Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg University an... read more
The Conversations 2020 initiative started last year and brought up a discussion on the present and the future of social innovation, design and sustainability. Now it’s time to return to it, in order to build a DESIS Manifesto. The Conversations 2020... read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Strategic Design Research Journal has announced a Call for Papers on ‘Design contributions for the COVID-19 global emergency’. Submissions are open until 15 July 2020. http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/pages/view/... read more
Ezio Manzini, Anna Meroni, December 13th, 2012 A distributed design agency: a work in progress. Is DESIS a “distributed design research agency”? Not yet, but we are working on it!As a matter of fact, since the Meeting in Helsinki, in May 2012, several... read more
Ezio Manzini, December 2013 Against post-it design: to make things happen How creativity, design knowledge and dialogic collaboration should shape participatory design and design for social innovation. 1. By its very nature, design for social innovation i... read more
Wednesday March 12th, 2014 Design Academy Eindhoven, 5th Floor 14.00-17.00 DESIS Philosophy Talk Storytelling is an initiative of DESIS Network, Design Academy Eindhoven (Strategic Creativity Lab) – Heather Daam & Maartje Van Gestel, Politecnic... read more
DESIS China is glad to announce the Spring Festival, a series of initiatives organized by Jiangnan DESIS Lab in the framework of Re-design Education Conference at Jiangnan University This conference is an yearly appointment for the Chinese community of de... read more
Dear DESIS community, we are pleased to announce that the call for paper of the conference ‘CUMULUS Milan 2015 – The Virtuous Circle. Design Culture and Experimentation’, is now open. We are planning several parallel initiatives for DESIS and th... read more
Ezio Manzini, 25.07.2014 The notion of design for social innovation is frequently considered similar, if not coincident, with the one of social design. In my view, to do that is an error: the two expressions refer to different activities and have very d... read more
Parallel Crossings, Film festival for Social Innovations and Sustainability in Berlin From the 5th until the 28th of September Parallel Crossings a unique Film Festival on Social Innovation and Sustainability is taking place in Berlin screening film produ... read more
DESIS Network: template for project description Objective The objective of this template is to produce a description of the DESIS projects which may help to make emerge some transversal knowledge across the DESIS network. More in particular it aims to sti... read more
A scenario in which more is more 09 Oct. 2014 18.00 -20.00 – Central Saint Martin, Kings Cross, London Josephine Green, in discussion with Jeremy Till and Ezio Manzini Resilience is increasingly recognized as a key quality to cultivate in the face o... read more
7 DESIS Issue on Design for Social Innovation Anna Meroni The DESIS Network has recently undertaken an international action of reflection on the transversal knowledge developed through the many initiatives of the Labs: projects, research actions, thematic... read more