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
We welcome nominations for the tenth Artful Integrators Award, to be presented online or in person in Newcastle upon Tyne U(K) during PDC 2022. The Award is intended to recognize outstanding achievement in the area of participatory design of information ... read more
Open call for articles for the 2022 Spring issue of ‘DISCERN, International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship’. DISCERN is inviting researchers, academics, professionals, practitioners, and postgraduate s... read more
Declaration of the International Coordination Committee of Desis Network: We believe that we must oppose the war in all possible ways: from public declarations to street demonstrations and the development of projects against all types of military aggres... read more
*Periplus: a Greek word of ancient origin, means sailing around. A periplus is a voyage around something, like an island or a coast line.&nb... read more
Dia 02 Dezembro| December 2st13:00 – 14:00 Brazil | 16:00 – 17:00 UTC | Check your time zone here O encontro com o tema: Como promover a inovação social em países lusófonos através do DESIGN? O Exemplo da DESIS Network, preten... read more
November 18th, at 5pm UTC It’s time for the second edition of DESIS STUDENTS Design Challenge. This time, the topic will be “Design for Emergency” and the event will happen on November 18th, at 5pm UTC! Although it is called Design “Challenge”, ... read more
23 November 2021 at 13h30 UTC The outcomes of the World Design Impact Prize 2021 will be presented in a 90-minute World Design Talks on 23 November from 1:30pm – 3pm UTC, with the participation of DESIS International Coordinator Teresa Franqueira. It wi... read more
(by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network founder)20th October 2021 In a few weeks the DESIS Assembly 2021 will happen. It is good that it will happen now: we must make it into a non-formal meeting in which to share our vision of where the world is going. And of us... read more
Thursday 11 November, 5pm – 7pm UTCPlease check your timezone: here At this online roundtable, hosted by DESIS and part of the UAL ‘Carnival of Crisis’ festival, we will explore: how can we craft new social economies and mobilise creati... read more
SAVE the DATE: 17th November 2021 at 14.00 UTC – DESIS Café hosted by Nick Spencer from the nDESIS Lab in Northumbria University – UK! DESIS Café is a virtual place where DESIS Labs can meet and talk about their activities, expectations, thought... read more