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
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
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
Come check the updates from three DESIS Labs in Greece, Japan and Spain. From TZU DESIS Lab at Tokyo Zokei University, in Japan, we have the Spedagi Tokyo Project. From ETSID DESIS Lab at Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, we have Craft Your Fut... read more