Design for Social Innovation supported by Social Based Authors: Teresa Franqueira, Gonçalo Gomes Abstract: The use and democratisation of new digital technologies have given visibility to groups of people and grassroots organizations that can be... read more
Seeking stronger plurality: Intimacy and integrity in designing for social innovation 08 – Article – Akama Yee Authors: Yoko Akama, Joyce Yee Abstract A seminal post-colonial scholar, Deborah Bird Rose (2004, 154) exclaims, ‘the w... read more
Co-design Workshops: Methods and tools for Social Entrepreneurship with Local Communities co-design workshops Authors: João Sampaio, Teresa Franqueira, Marta Fereira Dias, Marlene Amorim, Liliana Ávila. Abstract: This article describes a set of work... read more
Authors: Yoonyee Pahk, James Self and Joon Sang Baek COVALENT a method for co designing value exchange in community centred design ABSTRACT It is challenging to design for mutually beneficial relationships in a multi-actor service system when these... read more
Dear DESIS Network members As you will know, we have always adopted the practice of organizing DESIS Assemblies side-by-side with conferences and, since the very start of our network, this has been done exclusively with Cumulus conferences. Next year howe... read more
Carla Cipolla, Bibiana Serpa and Rita Afonso Abstract: How to encourage university-community engagement with local communities and disadvantaged groups? This is one of the main questions of the project LASIN – Latin American Social Innovation Network... read more
Anna Seravalli, Mette Agger Eriksen & Per-Anders Hillgren Abstract The public sector, increasingly acknowledging a need for change but strongly influenced by market logics, is experimenting with new forms of co-production of public services ... read more
July 2017 Ezio Manzini Thanks to our International Coordinator’s efforts, we finally have a map of what the DESIS Labs are doing. Of course it is not perfect (not all the considered projects were sufficiently up-dated) and it can and will be improve... read more
Arianna Mazzeo Cast aside your troubles and come to the land, to Sardegna Island, around the Omodeo Lake, to join us in our slow creativity campus and decide to share and to be free. In a time where technology speed toward a new urban future, rural existe... read more
Arianna Mazzeo A shift from public service-dominant logic to the co-creation and co-design of public goods. Bruxells is well known as Eu motherhood, the centre of all the Eu Policies and Scenarios. We challenge policy-makers to start an experiential journ... 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
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