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
The rapid urbanisation of African populations across the continent has disrupted not only traditional life but also notions of the ‘city’ inherited by colonial legacy. Emerging African mega-cities are often characterised by inequality, poverty and sca... read more
A very happy new year from all of us at DESIS!
“Villa Clarín, a space for all” is a project that is generated by community desire to have a more suitable to carry out their leisure activities, especially for children. With this space it is intended that people can generate better links be... read more
Soap-ing was designed for adults who are mildly intellectually disabled in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province in China. They struggle to find employment, and are living in poverty. The project’s goal is to provide dignified labor opportunities for IDP. The project ... read more
Currently at The New School connections are emerging between graduate programs across the various colleges. In different ways, each node in this emerging network is forming within a climate of cross-disciplinary research and practice; and each is respondi... read more
The Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability features research addressing the following annual themes. THEME 1: ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY THEME 2: SUSTAINABILITY IN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTU... read more
New Energy systems are evolving globally. Introduction of renewable energy technologies are affecting different parts of the world. In some parts wind and solar production are being used to replace non renewable energy sources or then are becoming an incr... read more
Global Grad Show conference will return on November 11th under the theme “Innovating for Social Impact”, mirroring the exhibition’s commitment to social development and academic engagement. The conference will explore how universities can be c... read more
Find attached the official call for papers for the 9th International Conference on Appropriate Technology 2020. The Design Society Development DESIS Lab based in the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (University of Johannesburg) is a partner for t... read more
We are very pleased to announce the release of DESIS’ new book, Design for Social Innovation and Cities (DxSIC). The publication, edited by Ezio Manzini and Carla Cipolla, is a project compilation with all DESIS Labs’ projects with the keywor... read more