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
Open from 30 March to 18 April 2021Folie N°6, Parc de la Villette The ExpoAction “Infinite Creativity for a Finite World aims to highlight the unique capacity of design to actively engage in the co-construction of a desirable future and to research... read more
We are glad to announce that the second number (Part 2) of the Design Contributions for the COVID-19 Global Emergency special issue is available. DESIS Network was one of the endorsing partners of this special issue, together with the Learning... read more
To celebrate the release of Designing in Dark Times: an Arendtian Lexicon, a series of dialogues are being organized to further explore what “dark times” means today and design’s recent positioning towards the expanded field of the socie... read more
The US Consulate in Milan, in collaboration with BASE Milano is pleased to invite you to “Walkable Cities / Sustainable Cities”, a conversation with the Urban Designer and City Planner Jeff Speck and Davide Fassi, Associate Professor at the Po... read more
SAVE the DATE: 24 March 2021 at 12.00 pm GMT – Desis Café hosted by Teresa Franqueira from ID+ Desis Lab in Portugal Desis Café is a virtual place where Desis Labs can meet and talk about their activities, expectations, thoughts, research, project... read more
What is the shape and sound of social innovation in urgent times? Our friends at SIX are hosting the Wayfinder Final Symphony on 19 February at 3pm GMT / 10am EST, with six Artist Composers who turned the Wayfinder content into art and music. In two sho... read more
(by Teresa Franqueira, DESIS International Coordinator)January 2021 The process of this defining document for the DESIS future started with the DESIS Conversations 2020 – an initiative to discuss the present and the future of social innovation, design a... read more
(by Teresa Franqueira, DESIS International Coordinator)January 2021 The new IC proposal is based on three pillars and intends not only to address environmental and ecological issues, but also to push the network towards clearer justice-based goals.It also... read more
(by Ezio Manzini, DESIS Network founder)1st February 2021 This newsletter is the first after the handover in the role of International Coordinator from Carla to Teresa. I want to thank them again, and their fantastic teams for the work done in the past 4 ... read more
The Special Issue “Design contributions for the COVID-19 global emergency” is now available. You can access it here: http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/article/view/sdrj.2020.133.01/60748255 The number of submissions and their global... read more