Call for proposals for: INSIDE/OUTSIDE Working our way out of the damaged now is an exhibition and symposium in February 2017 at the San Francisco State University Design Gallery in collaboration with DESIS Philosophy Talk and DESIS Lab LUCA Arts. ... read more
REFRAMING MIGRATION Looking around, we can recognise several examples of migrating people catalysing and contributing to new ways of meeting everyday needs – collaborative initiatives and organisations demonstrating in practice how inclusion can be ... read more
Jiangnan University 7th DESIS Symposium 2016 As a part of programme of DESIS-China regional cluster, the 7th DESIS Symposium 2016 has been organized at School of Design Jiangnan University (Wuxi, China) on 26th -27th of November 2016. With the theme of ... read more
DESIS Philosophy Talks Book The Pearl Diver: The Designer as Storyteller (free download) Presently, we encounter a wide variety of ways in which designers tell stories of social innovation. This encouraged us to start a reflection on the idea of storytell... read more
Pearl Diver Elisa Bertolotti, Heather Daam, Francesca Piredda and Virginia Tassinari “Presently, we encounter a wide variety of ways in which designers tell stories of social innovation. This encouraged us to start a reflection on the idea of storytelli... read more
(With contributions of Louise St. Pierre, Associate Professor in Emily Carr University of Art + Design) In the panorama of a network of Design Labs based in design schools and in other design-oriented universities, DESIS promotes and supports internationa... read more
The project focussed on using a Community Centred Design (CCD) approach and service design processes within a community context, to build sustainable socio-economic models. The project was done in Botswana with a small ceramic making enterprise which spec... read more
[ID+] DESIS Lab, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal started in January 2017 its participation in the european project SEASIN – Southeast Asian Social Innovation Network an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education. This project introduces new par... read more
The Democracy and Design platform was launched. You can now send your personal support and publicize the organized events in relation to the issues raised by the open letter Stand Up for Democracy on-line.
Emily Carr DESIS lab exemplifies “ground up” research innovation with Student Directed, a series of research workshops that are developed and hosted by students. The students solicit a faculty partner, and then submit a proposal for a research worksh... read more