Authors: Adam Thorpea, Alison Prendivillea, Lara Salinasa, Sarah Rhodesa Anatomy of local government-design education Abstract: The Public Collaboration Lab (PCL) is an action research partnership between the London Borough of Camden (LBC) and the Univer... read more
Author: Liliane Iten Chaves article – LilianeDesignforSocialInnovationDistributedEconomy Abstract: The article clarifies concepts incorporated to Design for sustainability, exposing differences and convergences among the terms. Distributed Economy... read more
Systems and Design Beyond Processes and Thinking Systems and Design Beyond Processes and Thinking system design Systems and Design Beyond Processes and Thinking Authors: Celaschi, Flaviano; Celi, Manuela; Formia, Elena; Franzato, Carlo; Imbesi, Lorenzo; P... read more
Authors: Davide Fassi, Anna Meroni, Giulia Simeone article – Meroni_Fassi – Simeone_DesignforSocialInnovationasaformofDesignActivism-Anactionformat Abstract: This paper presents and discusses an in-progress action format developed through a ... read more
Author: Ezio Manzini Designing coalitions Design for social forms in a fluid world Abstract: The fluidity of the world produced by the diffusion of connectivity drives us to adopt a similarly fluid interpretation. Doing so, the products of human activity ... read more
Authors: Yanki C Lee, Niels Hendriks, Albert S Y Tsang Open Dementia Project_Jan 2017_Cumulus Conference Paper HK Abstract: In Chinese society like in many cultures, persons with dementia suffer some level of stigmatisation. For this reason a dementia re... read more
Author: Angus Donald Campbell south africa – Decolonising_Design_Research Latin American Studies and decolonisation scholar Nelson Maldonado-Torres defines decoloniality as “the dismantling of relationships of power and conceptions of knowledge t... read more
Authors: FREIRE, DEL GAUDIO E FRANZATO ABSTRACT Purpose: Within the scientific literature on social innovation, several researchers from different areas are suggesting alternatives to promote, to sustain and to disseminate social innovation. However th... read more
Author: Gjoko Muratovski Gjoko Muratovski – Empowerment_by_Design_Editorial The role of design as a strategic resource goes beyond the corporate sector and design is increasingly being seen as an agent of positive social change. Governments from aro... read more
Author: M. Rossi article – MartinaRossi_Design_Doing Abstract: Today’s organisations are increasingly shifting their innovation processes from a top-down approach to bottom-up collaborative practices. These activities can involve multiple kind... read more
Service Design and Innovation conference (ServDes.) is the premier international research conference for exchanging knowledge within service design and service innovation studies aimed at both academics and industry practitioners. As the field of service ... read more
Join DSD DESIS Lab this Friday, 28 February 2020 for presentations by Terence Fenn and Jason Hobbs, focusing on discursive design. Discursive design is a growing approach to both conceptualising and conducting design research and practice. Talk 1: ... read more
Aligned with the vision of Cumulus Association and its commitment for sharing design knowledge and practices in a global and multidisciplinary perspective, Sapienza University of Rome will host the Annual Cumulus conference with the aim to house and to fo... read more
South African Keynote Speech for LENS World Distribute Conferenceby Angus Donald Campbell, Design Society Development DESIS Lab, University of Johannesburg) Check here the speech for LeNS by Prof Angus Donald Campbell from Design Society Development DES... read more
Carla Cipolla (DESIS Coordinator), Ingrid Bico and Matheus Ventura (Coordination Team and… students at UFRJ Rio DESIS Lab!) Students have always been essential to DESIS network. The last DESIS Assembly in Bogotá included a discussion about the role of ... read more
Written by Carla Cipolla, DESIS Coordinator and UFRJ/Coppe Rio DESIS Lab, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DESIS Conversations 2020 has been a discussion about the present and the future of social innovation, design and sustainability. The ope... read more
The DESIS Philosophy Talk “#7.1 “Designing as politics of nature” is the first of a new series of talks dedicated on the topic of post-anthropocentric design. This first conversation, that will be prompted by the Politecnico di Milano PhD programme ... read more
Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network president Are there, or are there potentially, social innovations motivated by environmental concerns (or which integrate traditional social motivations with clear and explicit environmental motivations)? If so, what... read more
On the 28th February join Parsons DESIS Lab at The New School for a day-long exploration of the ways practitioners are forging alliances and taking action to address social, political, environmental, and economic issues and redress conditions broadly... read more
In 2020, Rome will become the epicenter for universities of design. The Roman University of La Sapienza will host the Cumulus Spring Conference in 2020 (16th to 19th June 2020). A preliminary event, a pre-conference with the keynote speakers Ric... read more