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
Motivated by all the changes the Coronavirus pandemic has provoked in the world, DESIS Network members, colleagues and partners got together to discuss the impacts, ideas and what designers, as active citizens, could do to help the world face the pandemic... read more
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Strategic Design Research Journal has announced a Call for Papers on ‘Design contributions for the COVID-19 global emergency’. Submissions are open until 15 July 2020. http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/pages/view/... read more
Written by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network President If you rather be reading this article in PDF, please, click here to download the file. What will the world be like after the Covid-19 crisis? It will certainly be different. But how? Where will the change g... read more
Since the announcement of the pandemic and the imminence of a shortage in medical supplies volunteers started gathering, to sum-up efforts on fighting this crisis. A large number of volunteers are working with 3D printers to produce face masks, used by he... read more
In this moment of unprecedented difficulty, we want to express our closeness and solidarity to all of you. Today more than ever, we would like DESIS to be a common home in which to feel close. But, since DESIS was born to be a tool with which to produce k... read more
Written by Fang Zhong, from Tsinghua University DESIS Lab At the beginning of 2020, just as everyone was looking forward to the Chinese New Year, the people of the whole country suddenly entered a national anti-epidemic action. In the past month, no matte... read more
Check the new projects from DSU DESIS Lab from Busan, South Korea. Sujeong-dong Hope Village Vertical Fram Hope Village Vertical Farm was established in 2011 as part of the local community revitalization project, but it was going through difficulties due ... read more
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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