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
Ezio Manzini and Carla Cipolla 7.05.2018 In the framework of the ServDes Conference in Milano, next June, DESIS will also organise and coordinate (the 19th June afternoon) a workshop. Here below we anticipate a summary of its introduction. Please have a... read more
22.05.2018 The DESIS Assembly will take place side-by-side with ServDES – Service Design and Social Innovation Conference, hosted by Politecnico di Milano. It will take place 18 June, 2-5 PM CET, Milan time You can follow the DESIS Assembly by Zoom ... read more
Dear colleagues from DESIS, our long time friend François Jégou, curator of the Collaborative City exhibition within Lille 2020, World Design Capital, invites us to submit projects that rethink the theme of the Collaborative City within the pandemic cri... read more
Visit the new repository here: desisnetwork.org/covid-19 To share ideas with our network and to spread them as far as possible, we put together a special website containing all the projects being developed for our DESIS Labs and partners. Called DESIS Net... read more
Motivated by all the changes the Coronavirus pandemic has provoked in the world, DESIS Network members, colleagues and partners got together to discuss the impacts, ideas and what designers, as active citizens, could do to help the world face the pandemic... 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
Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network President If you rather be reading this article in PDF, please, click here to download the file. What will the world be like after the Covid-19 crisis? It will certainly be different. But how? Where will the change g... read more
Since the announcement of the pandemic and the imminence of a shortage in medical supplies volunteers started gathering, to sum-up efforts on fighting this crisis. A large number of volunteers are working with 3D printers to produce face masks, used by he... read more
In this moment of unprecedented difficulty, we want to express our closeness and solidarity to all of you. Today more than ever, we would like DESIS to be a common home in which to feel close. But, since DESIS was born to be a tool with which to produce k... read more
Written by Fang Zhong, from Tsinghua University DESIS Lab At the beginning of 2020, just as everyone was looking forward to the Chinese New Year, the people of the whole country suddenly entered a national anti-epidemic action. In the past month, no matte... read more
Check the new projects from DSU DESIS Lab from Busan, South Korea. Sujeong-dong Hope Village Vertical Fram Hope Village Vertical Farm was established in 2011 as part of the local community revitalization project, but it was going through difficulties due ... read more
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