The Strategic Design Research Journal is launching a CfP for a Special Issue: Autonomía | Design strategies for enabling design process. Deadline for submissions: November 30th, 2017 Guest editors: Chiara Del Gaudio, Andrea Botero and Alfredo Gutiérr... read more
Dutch design organisation What Design Can Do launched the Climate Action Challenge on May 23rd, 2017. The Challenge is a new global design competition calling on designers and creative entrepreneurs to submit innovative solutions to combat the impacts of... read more
We are proud to present a new book born here at POLIMI DESIS Lab! It is ‘CoDesign for Public-Interest Services’ by our researcher Daniela Selloni. ‘CoDesign for Public-Interest Services’ is a book about codesign, and more specifically, about the... read more
This design project was initiated by the request of Ulsan Nam-gu Office as a project of Government 3.0 Design. The initial goal was to suggest design solutions to turn Samho village into a tourist area by utilizing the emigrant birds as the tourist resour... read more
In partnership with COANIQUEM, a nonprofit pediatric treatment facility in Santiago, Chile, the “Safe Niños” project reimagined the 6-acre campus with human-centered environments that celebrate wellbeing for patients, their families and medical staff... read more
TRANSIT (TRANsformative Social Innovation Theory) is an ambitious research project that will develop a theory of transformative social innovation which is about empowerment and change in society. It is co-funded by the European Commission and runs for... read more
TRANSIT – Transformative Social Innovation Theory project – has studied DESIS Network as a global Social Innovation network. In the links below you can find the 4 timelines labs with their histories. These four timelines are regarding the most importa... read more
This project is focusing on ageing issue and especially targeting seniors living alone who are more exposed to loneliness and a lack of social support. Social support refers to ‘process of interaction in relationships which improves coping, esteem, belo... read more
Communicating the Wellbeing of a City with Santa Monica challenged ArtCenter students to work alongside Santa Monica civic leaders and other community stakeholders to translate the City of Santa Monica’s pioneering Wellbeing Index into innovative transm... read more
Emerging Practices Design Research and Education Conference (EPC) is the most important annual international academic event hosted and held by Tongji University College of Design and Innovation. The conference has been held since the year 2012 during Tong... read more