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
Innovation processes in public service communication for service designs Complete info here! MD Journal #10 intends to explore the contribution that design can make to this area of interest, by focusing on the theoretical and design aspects, sharing ... read more
14th October 2020: Deadline for the submission of 1000 word abstracts CoDesign Special Issue, Proposed Publication Date March 2022 Guest Editors: Professor Lynn-Sayers McHattie, Glasgow School of Art; Dr. Brian Dixon, Ulster University Designing for ... read more
We are proud to announce that the preliminary program for PDC2020 is now online! This year PDC will also be fully online, exploring participation(s) otherwise and more sustainable formats for knowledge exchange in times of global pandemics. Call for Parti... read more
2 July 2020 | 5pm – 6pm (London)This event will be live streamed via Zoom Brought to you by the Short Courses & Executive Education team at the RCA. Currently our resilience looks to peers, local resources and communities to temper the storm. Rob... read more
After inviting students from across the globe to develop products, services and systems that address SDG 12 for responsible consumption and production, Cumulus GREEN 2020 announced its 3 winners and 50 honorable mentions! Students across 44 countries and ... read more
Dear colleagues from DESIS, our long time friend François Jégou, curator of the Collaborative City exhibition within Lille 2020, World Design Capital, invites us to submit projects that rethink the theme of the Collaborative City within the pandemic cri... 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