REFRAMING MIGRATION Looking around, we can recognise several examples of migrating people catalysing and contributing to new ways of meeting everyday needs – collaborative initiatives and organisations demonstrating in practice how inclusion can be ... read more
Jiangnan University 7th DESIS Symposium 2016 As a part of programme of DESIS-China regional cluster, the 7th DESIS Symposium 2016 has been organized at School of Design Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China) on 26th -27th of November 2016. With the theme of â€... read more
DESIS Philosophy Talks Book The Pearl Diver: The Designer as Storyteller (free download) 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 storytell... read more
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
(With contributions of Louise St. Pierre, Associate Professor in Emily Carr University of Art + Design) In the panorama of a network of Design Labs based in design schools and in other design-oriented universities, DESIS promotes and supports internationa... 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
Ezio Manzini     5.04.2017 “We are in difficult and dangerous times. For many years, we lived in a world that, despite its problems, was nevertheless committed to principles of democracy in which human rights, fundamental freedoms, and opportunit... read more
The project focussed on using a Community Centred Design (CCD) approach and service design processes within a community context, to build sustainable socio-economic models. The project was done in Botswana with a small ceramic making enterprise which spec... read more
[ID+] DESIS Lab, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal started in January 2017 its participation in the european project SEASIN – Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education. This project introduces new par... read more
The Democracy and Design platform was launched. You can now send your personal support and publicize the organized events in relation to the issues raised by the open letter Stand Up for Democracy on-line.