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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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