Authors: Yoko Akama, Joyce Yee Communication Design, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Australia | Interactive Media Design, Northumbria University, UK Abstract A seminal post-colonial scholar, Deborah Bird Rose (2004, 154) excla... read more
Authors: Flor Avelino, Adina Dumitru, Carla Cipolla, Iris Kunze and Julia Wittmayer DRIFT/Transition Academy, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; University A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (... read more
Authors : Essi Kuure & Satu Miettinen University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design E-mail: essi.kuure@ulapland.fi Abstract There is an evident need to shift from focusing merely on designers’ tasks and methods towards taking a more holistic a... read more
Author: Nicola Morelli nmor@create.aau.dk Aalborg University Abstract Design studies focuses on explaining the human activity of design, and is fundamental to design research. It frequently involves the use of qualitative research approaches such as cas... read more
Authors: Paul Emmerson Robert Young Abstract For today’s and future generations, we prohibit the ‘good life’ due to the lack of fairness resulting from the unsustainable systemic environmental effects of capitalist defined lifestyles. This paper c... read more
Authors: Dongjin Song Yongqi Lou Abstract These years, with the revolution of social innovation, design is enlarging its scope and actively initiated to social and public sector, design activism movement is emerging. Isolation of design practice and res... read more
Authors: Virginia Tassinari, Francesca Piredda & Elisa Bertolotti Abstract: Abstract: The German philosopher Hannah Arendt believes that storytelling can be used to reopen the idea of public space and to facilitate dialogue/action amongst citizens a... read more
Authors: Luisa Collinaa Laura Galluzzoa Stefano Maffeia Vanessa Monnaa Abstract Design Education is changing. Setting out from the awareness that “the profile of design professions need not – and should not – remain what it is today” (Findeli, 200... read more
Author: Anna Seravalli , The School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of urban commons and how they might be (co)-designed. Insights from two cases are used to articulate how urban commons ... read more
Authors: Essi Kuure, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design Satu Miettinen, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design Mira Alhonsuo, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design Abstract This article aims to explain how transformation... read more
From Ingrid Bico and Matheus Ventura Today is the last day of 2020 and also our last day as DESIS International team members. During the past year and half, we had the opportunity to keep in touch with many inspiring people that make DESIS what it is. Thi... read more
Involved in DESIS Network since its creation, more than 10 years ago, in the last DESIS Assembly Teresa Franqueira presented her action program for the biennium 2021-2023. The proposal is based on three pillars and seeks to address environmental and ecolo... read more
Design and Nature: A Partnership is a collective effort involving 3 editors, Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre, and Mathilda Tham, along with almost 40 contributors from around the world. The book contributes to the growing scholarship, about challenging a... read more
We are proud to present ServDes.2020 conference that allows delegates around the world to access all 100 presentations, panel discussions and workshops, designed to suit multiple time zones across the world. Please join us from 2-5th February 2021 by... read more
The Annual DESIS Assembly happened earlier this week, via Zoom, and reunited around 50 people from more than ten countries to discuss the activities developed in 2020 and also the next steps of the network. This Assembly marked an important transition bet... read more
As part of Seoul Innovation Week 2020 organised by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Social Innovation Exchange hosted a special session sharing the story of Seoul’s journey to becoming a people-powered city on 25 November 2020. Seoul City’s global ... read more
– The next DESIS annual assembly will take place on the 9th of December at 5 p.m. (CET). It will be streamed on our YouTube channel and you can watch, as well as interact via chat through this link:
Dear Cumulus Friends,as you know, the Covid-19 situation is globally asking us to take responsible measures to protect the health of everyone and overcome this state of uncertainty.Since two years, we have been and keep working hard together with many peo... read more
(Written by Carla Cipolla, DESIS International Coordinator from 2017 to 2020) Our IC program relied on a question: who are we? What triggered this IC program was the will to increase the connections between DESIS members and access the richness of DE... read more
Montreal (Canada), 29 October 2020 — As designers around the world work to become more intentional, sustainable and inclusive in their design practices, the World Design Organization (WDO)® is embarking on a new project to explore design as a key ... read more