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
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
The 15-minute city: what it is, what it means to live there, how to design it and how to create it. An exchange of experiences (before and after COVID-19) Wednesday, 18th November 202014.30 – 17.00 (CET) see time in your region here.Online event, broadc... read more
Last Friday, the 30th of October, the workshop led by students at “Design: Vertical & Horizontal Growth” Conference gathered more than 25 students and professors discussing themes to nurture the initiative. Students and teachers joined the... read more
On the next 30th of October, a workshop led by DESIS Students in partnership with DESIS SPbU (St Petersburg University) will be held at the online conference “Design: Vertical & Horizontal Growth” in collaboration with Cumulus. The worksho... read more
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
On the next 17th of October 2020 the Maison POC Collaborative City / Design Week will host the DxCC Lille conference that will take place at 17:30 (France) online. Find detailed info below. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89723069545Check ... read more
On the 19th of September, a workshop with students from Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa and the United States, discussed future ideas for the initiative. The workshop was led by Ingrid Bico, a DESIS Student from the coord... read more
Register here: bit.ly/32U5t2BTime in your region here The COVID-19 health crisis can be seen as a radical unplanned social experiment in new ways of living and caring for each other. Viewed from this perspective, it reveals the fragility of contemporary f... read more
The “Collaborative City” Maison POC explores, through “design shows”, a hundred local and international projects in order to discover emerging visions of sharing, mutual aid and cooperation… How can design facilitate collabo... read more
(Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network Founder) Designing for Reimagined Communities: this is the title of the call for papers for a special issue of CoDesign. It would be nice and useful if many members of the DESIS network participated. To this invitat... read more