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  • The peaceful war of times, places and interactions (and the DESIS Philosophy Talks)
    by Ezio Manzini, Virginia Tassinari
    The war of times, places and interactions has already been started. Everyday, millions of people challenge traditional ways of doing things and introduce new, different, and more sustainable behaviours. The common denominator of these initiatives is that the involved people compensate for a reduction in consumption (in goods and space) with an increase in something else that they consider more valuable. This “something else” is generally represented by the increase of their environment physical and social qualities. We can refer to them as sustainable qualities: qualities that ask for more sustainable behaviours in order to enjoy them.

  • A distributed design agency: a work in progress
    by Ezio Manzini, Anna Meroni
    Is DESIS a “distributed design research agency”? Not yet, but we are working on it! As a matter of fact, since the Meeting in Helsinki in May 2012, several steps have been taken in this direction. Some of them have produced results that are already visible and quantifiable. Others are still “under water” like inter-Labs discussion on possible initiatives (events and research programs) to be conceived and developed collaboratively. (....)

INDISCRETO - Pamplona COLOMBIA, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2

Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 00:00

In the framework of the INDISCRETO academic conference, organized by University of Pamplona, Colombia, and its faculty of Industrial Design, the first meeting to consolidate a common DESIS project will take place. The event, INDISCRETO (Innovation, Design, Creativity) aims at bringing the students closer to the on-going changes of the conception of design and its merging with other branches of knowledge on a multidisciplinary basis.

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6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education: Let's build transformative knowledge to drive social change

Submitted by admin on Sat, 10/20/2012 - 00:00

The 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education and the 5th GUNi Report are focused on Knowledge, Engagement & Higher Education. They will analyze how to build transformative knowledge to drive social change. In exploring this contemporary issue, the Report and the Conference will attempt to describe how it is evolving nowadays, and will propose to go beyond the narrow and compartmentalized approach to engagements of higher education by offering new visions and ways for the future.

In the Conference, GUNi aims to approach the challenge of engagements by higher education institutions in the larger society in an integrated manner: it will explore ways in which engagement enhances teaching, learning and research; it will approach engagement in ways that accept the multiple sites and epistemologies of knowledge, as well as the reciprocity and mutuality in learning and education through engagement.

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Public & Collaborative days - Seminar & DESIS Philosophy Talk

Submitted by admin on Mon, 10/15/2012 - 00:00

On the 26th and 27th October 2012, DESIS organizes Public & Collaborative Days. These two P&C days will be dedicated to the discussion of the specific theme of Design for Public Innovation and take the opportunity to formulate some critical reflections starting from DESIS Network P&C projects.
 
During the P&C Seminar, the P&C project outcomes are presented and discussed among the project participants and with relevant stakeholders. To provide a framework to the discussion, the seminar is articulated in two main sections, corresponding to its two main initial questions.

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Call for submission - DESIS Showcase Santiago

Submitted by admin on Mon, 10/08/2012 - 00:00

DESIS Showcase is an initiative of DESIS Network in collaboration with Cumulus Association in order to provide an overview of what is happening in the global design education in the field of social innovation and sustainability.

Design for social innovation overview: projects, images, exchanges
Santiago, November 15th, 2012, 18h30-20h00, at Duoc UC, Santiago, Chile, Back-to-back with the Cumulus Conference: Projecting Design.

DESIS Showcase Format: "4-slides exhibit - 4-minutes presentations"
Show your project. Exchange your experience with that of others. Get an overview of what is going on in the field.

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Call for submission - DESIS Showcase Shanghai

Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 00:00

DESIS Showcase Shanghai 2012, back-to-back with Radical Design Week
Venue: Tongji University, Sino-Finnish Centre
Address: No.100 Zhangwu Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China
Contact: Prof. LOU Yongqi (lou.yongqi@gmail.com), Dr.GAO Bo (gaobotj@gmail.com)
Date: 3rd November 2012, 09:00-11:00

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The full series of open lectures are available at DESIS Public & Collaborative initiative website (http://www.desis-clusters.org). 

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