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
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
Visit the new repository here: desisnetwork.org/covid-19 To share ideas with our network and to spread them as far as possible, we put together a special website containing all the projects being developed for our DESIS Labs and partners. Called DESIS Net... read more
Discussing the future of humankind in the pandemic/post-pandemic scenario has become a common practice around the world. DESIS Network brought this discussion to the Design table during an international webinar with professors, students and researches fro... read more
The Conversations 2020 initiative started last year and brought up a discussion on the present and the future of social innovation, design and sustainability. Now it’s time to return to it, in order to build a DESIS Manifesto. The Conversations 2020... read more
Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network founder | Note: If you want to read this article in PDF, please click here Conversations 2020 started with a contribution written a year ago: July 2019. I don’t think it’s rhetorical to say that it seems ... read more
The 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic disease (COVID-19), appeared for the first time in Wuhan (Hubei Province, China) in late 2019 and rapidly spread in the rest of the world since the early months of 2020, has produced a significant and sadly dramatic impact... read more
Next 25th of July, Ezio Manzini will present “Hybrid Communities of Place: Politics of the every day in the post-pandemic phase”. The event is organized by Prof. CAI Jun of the Design Management Institute of the Academy of Arts&Design, Tsi... read more
24H WORLDWIDE DESIGN CONVERSATIONS Ed. 2020 | design wor(l)dbook after lockdown Following the COVID19 pandemic, many design paradigms need to be rethought and re-invented. The POLIMI Design System community of the Politecnico di Milano will launch, on Jun... read more
How does the ecological thinking affect architects, designers and the design culture itself? Complete information here: https://eventi.unibo.it/theecologicalturn-architettura-bologna-2020 The Anthropocene has the merit of challenging our conventions in an... read more
The Center for Design at Northeastern University (Boston, USA) has launched Design for Emergency, an open design platform to face the Covid-19 emergency through design. https://www.designforemergency.com Through this project, we&... read more