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2nd International Conference 5-6 July 2013

Disseny Hub, Barcelona

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DeSForM: Call for Papers and Demos

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Submitted by Jun Hu on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:19

8th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement.
Since the first DeSForM conference, the field of design has been changing a lot, but not as much as it should have, to respond to significant societal changes. One important external change is the development and widespread application of social computing. Social media fundamentally change the relationships between people and it changes their behavior. This is significant for design and at DerSForM 2013 we ask: how should design respond. Any innovative system, service, or related product is a combination of material concepts and digital concept. Material form-giving and digital form-giving. Which are the new tools that the design research community will offer to cope with this new complexity?

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"The UK prime minister has announced a multi-million pound prize fund designed to solve some of the world's most pressing problems"

Submitted by Adam Thorpe on Tue, 06/18/2013 - 14:01

"The UK prime minister has announced a multi-million pound prize fund designed to solve some of the world's most pressing problems" - but will this be a search for 'magic bullets' or an opportunity to pilot more systemic human centred approaches?

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Taksim Solidarity - public protests in Istanbul

Submitted by admin on Fri, 06/07/2013 - 15:19

In response to the public protests in the past days spanning to many cities in Turkey which started with the government action on the 27th of May 2013 to demolish a valuable and much needed green area at the centre of Istanbul, Taksim-Gezi Park, to re-build a replica of an old military barracks building to serve as a shopping mall, DESIS, the International network of schools of design would like to express their solidarity with the actions of the civil initiative Taksim Dayanışması (Solidarity) following this matter from the start.

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DESIS @ Kalmar, 6 - 8 June, 2013

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Submitted by Ezio Manzini on Thu, 05/30/2013 - 17:17

Day 1. June 6, 19.00-21.00 Kalmar Theatre, Larmtorget 1

DESIS Meeting (for DESIS members and friends)
1. Activities
- What has been done in the 2012-2013 and next steps
- Thematic Clusters: on-going and future initiatives
- Philosophy Talks and Showcases: on-going and future initiatives
- other possible initiaitves: toolkits, video, other?

2. Organization
- DESIS Labs: new entries
- DESIS Network governance: the state of the debate

NB. at the end of the meeting Thematic Clusters promoters and interested other colleagues will have the possibility to continue the discussion in separate gorups.

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Ageing & Ingenuity (A&I) - Call for Design Stories

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 15:16

At NORDES 2013 Design Research Conference, one of the new DESIS Clusters, Ageing & Ingenuity (A&I) will conduct a workshop on the 11th June 2013. This collective design workshop aims to provoke and test new design approaches towards ageing.
We are looking for design stories that show how can design thinking and collaborative working enable the world to respond differently to the challenges of ageing. We propose a full day workshop. Morning session is devoted to an introduction to the workshop and design stories from participants. Each participants need to prepare a story of an ingenious older people from their project. All these real-world life stories of creative people will be formed into personas in first part of the afternoon. The result of the workshop is expected to form a collective design manual for the future ageing innovation.

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Ageing & Ingenuity (A&I)

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 14:54

By 2050, 2 billion people in the world will be over 60, making up 22% of the population. What impact will this burgeoning cohort have on our economic, social and cultural worlds? How can design thinking and collaborative working enable the world to respond differently to the challenges of ageing? Can designers change our inherent ageism through the engagement of older people in the design and delivery of services and products for them? Can we change our current strategies towards ageing, turning its potential challenges into opportunities to engage, empower and improve the lives of older people?

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Rural-Urban China Thematic Cluster Launched in China

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 14:45

China’s urbanization has been regarded as one of the key issues having impact to everyone’s daily life in 21 century. As a major part as well as important consequence of China's 30-year rapid development, urbanization has not only brought about economic growth, but also intensified the imbalance between urban-rural economic and social development. At present, China still has half of its population remaining in the countryside. Traditional Chinese philosophy believes that the rural and urban ways of living both have their advantages and pitfalls. The real challenge is not how to choose between the two, but how to discover and release the strengths of both. In a sentence, China still has the opportunity to choose a different way of modernization.

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Public & Collaborative

Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/22/2013 - 14:41

Following last year’s Public & Collaborative Days at the Design Biennale in Liège, the Public & Collaborative cluster is continuing its efforts to share the cluster's findings with design practitioners, educators and policymakers. Public & Collaborative: Exploring the Intersection of Design, Social Innovation and Public Policy, a booklet to be published in the coming weeks by the cluster, shares findings, research, analysis and case studies from the work of cluster-members across the globe.

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Design for Memory

Submitted by Andrea Mendoza on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 16:19

No, we have not forgotten.
Right after the Tsunami and nuclear disaster, Japan called a lot of attention. But as time passed by the world seems to forget about the events and their planetary implications .
The following article aims at, not only expressing them our constant support, but also at giving visibility to their thoughts and to some positive initiatives going on.

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