Theme: Service design as a situated activity: regional aspects.The DESIS Thematic Forum consists of the presentation and discussion of significant cases where service design is considered an agent of social innovation for the ecological transition from di... read more
DESIS Philosophy Talk #7.8 Designing for care 1. The concept of “care”, in all its implications, is certainly not new. However, in recent years it has gradually emerged in the social conversation with a new connotation: that of being one of th... read more
Pre-conference event ServDes, Rio 2023, July 11, 2023 Regional characters Service design as situated activity 2. We believe that, until now, the highly situated nature of service design has not been sufficiently understood and valued. We believe it ... read more
Authors: Francesco Mazzarella, Helen Storey & Dilys Williams Available on ResearchGate
Authors: Flor Avelino, Adina Dumitru, Carla Cipolla, Iris Kunze & Julia Wittmayer Available on ResearchGate
Authors – Dr. Spyros Bofylatos, University of the Aegean – Paris Xyntarianos – Tsiropinas, University of the Aegean Abstract Our understanding and use of the urban environment is constantly changing. Applied sciences, technology, creativ... read more
Authors: Ann Light – School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Anna Seravalli – The School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden Abstract If municipalities were the caring platforms of t... read more
Authors: Yaone Rapitsenyane; Richie Moalosi; Paulson Letsholo University of Botswana Abstract Current business models have over the years led to increased consumption of resources; energy and materials. The concept of Sustainable Product-Service System... read more
Davide Fassi, Laura Galluzzo, Annalinda De Rosa davide.fassi@polimi.it; laura.galluzzo@polimi.it; annalinda.derosa@polimi.it Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Via Durando 38a, 20158 Milan, Italy Abstract The paper is a position paper attempting... read more
Liang Yin | liang.yin@polimi.it Davide Fassi Hang Cheng Han Hana Shushu He Abstract: Health is not only an individual or personal issue but a social related outcome co-created by a wide range of stakeholders. As public health challenge is proved to be ... read more
Satu Miettinen – University of Lapland (FINLAND) Vikki du Preez – University of Technology (SOUTH AFRICA) Jill van Dugteren – University of Technology (SOUTH AFRICA) Richie Moalosi – University of Botswana (BOTSWANA) Shorn M... read more
Carla Cipolla carla.cipolla@ufrj.br Abstract Vulnerability is the feeling of being exposed and unable to with stand the effects of a hostile environment—something we typically wish to avoid. This study aims to develop and propose vulnerability as an ass... read more
Melanie Sarantou, Taina Kontio and Satu Miettinen melaniesarantou@gmail.com University of Lapland, Finland Abstract The Hero’s Journey is an embodied game activity based on the monomyth of Joseph Campbell (1949). This participatory art-based acti... read more
Authors: Yoko Akama, Joyce Yee Communication Design, School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Australia | Interactive Media Design, Northumbria University, UK Abstract A seminal post-colonial scholar, Deborah Bird Rose (2004, 154) excla... read more
Authors: Flor Avelino, Adina Dumitru, Carla Cipolla, Iris Kunze and Julia Wittmayer DRIFT/Transition Academy, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; University A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (... read more
Authors : Essi Kuure & Satu Miettinen University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design E-mail: essi.kuure@ulapland.fi Abstract There is an evident need to shift from focusing merely on designers’ tasks and methods towards taking a more holistic a... read more
Author: Nicola Morelli nmor@create.aau.dk Aalborg University Abstract Design studies focuses on explaining the human activity of design, and is fundamental to design research. It frequently involves the use of qualitative research approaches such as cas... read more
Authors: Paul Emmerson Robert Young Abstract For today’s and future generations, we prohibit the ‘good life’ due to the lack of fairness resulting from the unsustainable systemic environmental effects of capitalist defined lifestyles. This paper c... read more
Authors: Dongjin Song Yongqi Lou Abstract These years, with the revolution of social innovation, design is enlarging its scope and actively initiated to social and public sector, design activism movement is emerging. Isolation of design practice and res... read more
Authors: Virginia Tassinari, Francesca Piredda & Elisa Bertolotti Abstract: Abstract: The German philosopher Hannah Arendt believes that storytelling can be used to reopen the idea of public space and to facilitate dialogue/action amongst citizens a... read more
Authors: Luisa Collinaa Laura Galluzzoa Stefano Maffeia Vanessa Monnaa Abstract Design Education is changing. Setting out from the awareness that “the profile of design professions need not – and should not – remain what it is today” (Findeli, 200... read more
Author: Anna Seravalli , The School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of urban commons and how they might be (co)-designed. Insights from two cases are used to articulate how urban commons ... read more
Authors: Essi Kuure, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design Satu Miettinen, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design Mira Alhonsuo, University of Lapland, Faculty of Art and Design Abstract This article aims to explain how transformation... read more
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
Author: Gjoko Muratovski Gjoko Muratovski – Empowerment_by_Design_Editorial The role of design as a strategic resource goes beyond the corporate sector and design is increasingly being seen as an agent of positive social change. Governments from aro... read more
Author: M. Rossi article – MartinaRossi_Design_Doing Abstract: Today’s organisations are increasingly shifting their innovation processes from a top-down approach to bottom-up collaborative practices. These activities can involve multiple kind... read more
Author: Daichi Iwase Daichi Iwase – Potential of Bamboo Bicycle Production For Promoting Sustainable Community Development In Rural Areas Abstract: Today many rural areas across the world are faced with issues such as, depopulation, and an aging of... read more
Authors: Chiara Del Gaudio, Carlo Franzato and Alfredo J. de Oliveira Sharing Design Abstract: Partnerships with local actors are quite common in social design projects developed in unknown contexts. Several design researchers describe them as positive an... read more
Carla Cipolla The DESIS Talks aims to discuss and define joint initiatives to be developed by DESIS members. The first two conversations took place through an online system (18 and 20 October) in two different time zones to allow – as much a... read more
Author: Robert Crocker CROCKERSEPINTRODUCTIONFINAL From Access to Excess In Life, the Universe and Everything, one of his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books, Douglas Adams describes a cricket match, at Lords in London, in an imagined future, where... read more
Ezio Manzini 29.11.2107 We are currently working on a new DESIS Thematic Cluster to investigate if and how design for city-making can play a role in generating, or regenerating, urban fabric. We already did a workshop on this theme in Shanghai,... read more
Authors: Terence Fenn, Jason Hobbs article – Conceptualisingindeterminateproblems Abstract: When faced with complex problems that are situated in social reality many design students struggle to formulate meaningful and articulate responses to these ... read more
article – Co-Design in co-production processes Authors: 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... read more
Author: Angus Donald Campbell DESI_a_00424_Campbell “This article intends to add to the current professional and academic design discourse on participation in a complex and highly networked society, with particular relevance to ethical, political, and ... read more
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
Carla Cipolla DESIS International Coordinator Dear members, this letter is particularly addressed to those who are interested in the DESIS network development. It is a bit long and I have written it as a personal and open letter. ————— No presen... read more
(New) Public Goods in The Journal of Design Strategies (2016) Building on the work of Public & Collaborative (the DESIS thematic cluster), a special issue of The Journal of Design Strategies considers the import of design practices concerned with t... read more
Carla Cipolla 02.05.2017 In less than one months, the 1st of June, in the framework of the Cumulus Conference, in Kolding, the DESIS Network Assembly will take place. As always, it will be an important opportunity to meet and discuss where we are and wher... read more
Open Letter . Stand Up! Design for Democracy Arianna Mazzeo – Desislab Elisava Design is a social act. We as designers have the capability to explore citizen-centered design approaches far away from the smart city point of view. This transformative... read more
Ezio Manzini 2 May 2017 We have a new tool: the DDP – Design and Democracy Platform (http://www.democracy-design.org): a digital platform to gather, analyse and give visibility to activities that are directly or indirectly linked to the “St... read more
Ezio Manzini 5.04.2017 “We are in difficult and dangerous times. For many years, we lived in a world that, despite its problems, was nevertheless committed to principles of democracy in which human rights, fundamental freedoms, and opportunit... read more
Ezio Manzini Design has always played a social and political role. Directly or indirectly and whether consciously or not, it has assumed all kinds of stances towards dominant social, cultural and economic systems: ranging from enthusiastic support to radi... read more
Anna Meroni The 21st November, the annual DESIS Assembly will take place, in Hong Kong, just before the Cumulus Conference. For several reasons it will be for us a very important moment. In fact, this Assembly will be the opportunity for the network to di... read more
Anna Meroni This is the time for a new DESIS website and we believe that any change is an opportunity for an evolution. Who are we? What is our mission? What is design for social innovation today? We think of DESIS as a centre of collective intelligence, ... read more
Ezio Manzini We started DESIS seven years ago: in these 7 years social innovation has spread further and consolidated both in practice and as a topic of conversation, even in the mass media addressing the general public. At the same time, the theme has ac... read more
NEW DESIS, NEW IDEAS Anna Meroni, International coordinator. Dear DESISers, it seems that the (im)possible mission of turning DESIS into an Association is almost accomplished: the “constitution paper” with the new statute of DESIS signed by the initia... read more
DESIGN RESEARCH NETWORKS Ezio Manzini The on-going transition asks for diffuse design capabilities. And therefore for an original knowledge: design knowledge capable to feed the broad co-design processes that will have to drive the needed socio-technical ... read more
7 DESIS Issue on Design for Social Innovation Anna Meroni The DESIS Network has recently undertaken an international action of reflection on the transversal knowledge developed through the many initiatives of the Labs: projects, research actions, thematic... read more
DESIS Network: template for project description Objective The objective of this template is to produce a description of the DESIS projects which may help to make emerge some transversal knowledge across the DESIS network. More in particular it aims to sti... read more
Ezio Manzini, December 2013 Against post-it design: to make things happen How creativity, design knowledge and dialogic collaboration should shape participatory design and design for social innovation. 1. By its very nature, design for social innovation i... read more