_Cumulus Shanghai Conference 2010: Young Creators for Better City and Better Life. Sept. 7th – 10th 2010
The conference is being produced in combination with Shanghai World EXPO2010 and Shanghai Biennale. It will explore where and how young generation of designers can, through their talents and responsibility, improve our environment and life in a creative way. The missions and visions of design education, design research and practice for young creators, together with the economic, political and social impact will also be discussed during the conference.
Papers have already been submitted and evaluated. Main topics will be: -Sustainability & social innovation -Local wisdom & globalization -Socio-economics & design -Old & young
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Venue: Aalto-Tongji Design Factory, Tongji University
Cumulus 20th anniversary Ceremony: KIC Square
Keynote Speeches
1. Ezio Manzini, Founder and Coordinator of DESIS-International, Professor of Politecnico di Milano
2. Pekka Korvenmaa, Vice Dean & Professor of Aalto University, School of Art and Design
3. Jeremy Myerson, Director and Helen Hamlyn Professor of Design, Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art
4. Lorraine Justice, Member of Board of ICSID, Dean of College of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
for more information: www.cumulus2010tongji.org/info.php
_Desis-Cumulus event at the UN pavilion EXPO2010 Shangai
Sept. 10th from 10.00 am to 12.00 m
The conference will present international initiatives on design for social innovation and sustainability, exploring the potential connection among global initiatives. DESIS aims to deliver a light conference - all participants are encouraged to open their minds, share their knowledge and enjoy the delight of good design. The organizers propose that all participants will commit to the principles of the DESIS Declaration, then promote and facilitate sustainable design initiatives globally in their home countries afterwards.
Main speakers:
_Ezio Manzini, Professor, Chairman of DESIS-International, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
_Yrjo Sotamaa, Tongji-Forever Chair Professor, Founder of CUMULUS
_Jeremy Myerson, Chair Porf. of the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art
_LOU Yongqi, Vice Dean, College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University
_Pekka Korvenmaa,Chair in Design and Culture, Aalto University
_First DESIS-International meeting
Expo UN pavilion 13.00 pm – 14.30 pm
The objectives of the meeting are to share past experiences among DESIS members, and to draw a clear roadmap for the future development of DESIS Network. The roadmap is proposed to be a holistic framework of ongoing and emerging DESIS initiatives around the world, and a concrete and feasible action plan to promote DESIS research and practice projects globally.
DESIS INDIA
BANGALORE
Sustainability in design: NOW!
Challenges and opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century - 29th September - 1st October 2010
The scope of the conference and of this proceedings is to make a significant contribution to catalyzing the learning and dissemination process of an emergent design knowledge-base, theory and practice, on design for sustainability, within the design community: a contribution to take up the challenge of Sustainability in Design, NOW! The conference approach is to look at various stakeholders in this arena - designers, design educators and design researchers - as a unique and multi-polar learning community. This is a design community adopting a new ethos, promoting all possible synergies and processes of learning-by-sharing, enabling an effective knowledge base and know-how sharing, osmosis and cross-fertilization in an open and copy left ethos. In this context, the conference aims at offering an understanding of the worldwide challenges and the opportunities so that designer-participants can be more active and effective in the transition towards a sustainable society. The conference aims to be both visionary and pragmatic, and to stimulate new ways of thinking.
In the framework of this important, really big and promising conference, the first DESIS India Round Table meeting is going to take place.
Being as big as India, this node of DESIS International network counts not only with the academia but also with different architects and design studios who find the pertinence of participating, share and build up around the topic. For more information please visit: www.lensconference.polimi.it/
DESIS-India First Roundtable Meeting
29th September 2010
8.45-12.30
Organized by Shashank Metha (NID) Ahmedabad, the meeting is being keenly prepared by all members who have been sharing thoughts on the discussion agenda arriving to points such as (Sabina Dsilva):
1. The need to raise awareness regarding what makes a case qualifiable: Since one of the main objective of DESIS-India is collection of promising cases, it would be important to share with all members the criteria for spotting a case, what makes a case qualify: i.e. unique, sustainable and scalable.
2. Recording: a formatted system for recording the cases online, an online database of sorts and who could help us create it.
3. Draw a source of cases: If each DESIS-India member can commit to touching base with at least 10 local NGO's, local Govt. bodies, local research organizations and community associations, to begin with, then we could look forward to a good collection of cases.
4. Analyzing cases: With the support of DESIS networks around the world, cases could be analyzed and presented as new potential solutions that can be replicated in different contexts.
5. Sharing of cases: decide on what events we can organize locally and at a national level to share these cases and make more people aware to take on their implementation. Exhibitions, online dissemination, University events, Community events etc.
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There is no shortage of social innovations in Europe. And yet, despite this, the field of social innovation has not mature enough to be up to the multitude of presenting social challenges.
