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
Save the date for the DESIS Event at Cumulus Rome Conference 11 June 2021, from 11:10 to 12:50 CET. Emerging design culture(s) is conceived as a collective reflection on what transformative social innovation has brought and could bring to the culture of... read more
(by Teresa Franqueira) DESIS Café aims to be an informal virtual place where DESIS Labs can meet and talk about their activities, expectations, thoughts, research, projects, etc. It’s a place to strengthen connections within the community and exchange ... read more
(by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network founder)15th May 2021 As we have always done, DESIS will participate in the annual Cumulus Conference organizing a DESIS event. This year, the main Cumulus conference, which will be held from the 7th to the 11th of June, is... read more
Next May 15th, the DESIS Students initiative will host the 1st edition of their new project, the “Design Challenges”. The event is based on using the Design theories and methods to work collaboratively, identifying opportunities for social tra... read more
SAVE the DATE: 19 May 2021 at 13.30 UTC – Desis Café hosted by Audrey G. Bennett from Stamps DESIS Lab in the US! DESIS Café is a virtual place where DESIS Labs can meet and talk about their activities, expectations, thoughts, research, projects,... read more
Open from 30 March to 18 April 2021Folie N°6, Parc de la Villette The ExpoAction “Infinite Creativity for a Finite World aims to highlight the unique capacity of design to actively engage in the co-construction of a desirable future and to research... read more
We are glad to announce that the second number (Part 2) of the Design Contributions for the COVID-19 Global Emergency special issue is available. DESIS Network was one of the endorsing partners of this special issue, together with the Learning... read more
To celebrate the release of Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon, a series of dialogues are being organized to further explore what “dark times” means today and design’s recent positioning towards the expanded field of the socie... read more
The US Consulate in Milan, in collaboration with BASE Milano is pleased to invite you to “Walkable Cities / Sustainable Cities”, a conversation with the Urban Designer and City Planner Jeff Speck and Davide Fassi, Associate Professor at the Po... read more
SAVE the DATE: 24 March 2021 at 12.00 pm GMT – Desis Café hosted by Teresa Franqueira from ID+ Desis Lab in Portugal Desis Café is a virtual place where Desis Labs can meet and talk about their activities, expectations, thoughts, research, project... read more