By 2012, One Planet Mobility partner cities will have developed, tested and implemented innovative measures to promote less car dependent lifestyles, and committed to driving forward a process of long-term systemic change beyond the life of the project. OPM Cities is an initiative of WWF and involves so far 5 European cities.

Sustainability in Design: NOW!  Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century. LeNS Conference, Bangalore, 29th September to 1st October 2010. CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: MARCH 31st.

More information on this conference at: http://www.lensconference.polimi.it/

CALL for PAPERS ERSCP-EMSU 2010 Confererence, 25-29 October 2010.  More information http://www.erscp-emsu2010.org/submissions

Cumulus Shanghai Conference 2010: Young Creators for
Better City and Better Life.
 

Themes
CUMULUS Shanghai Conference 2010 will be held by College of Design & Innovation of
Tongji University from Sep. 7th to Sep.10th during World EXPO 2010. The theme for
CUMULUS Shanghai Conference 2010 is Young Creators for Better City and Better Life.
The conference aims to explore how the young generation of designers can improve our
environment and life in creative ways. The emerging missions and visions of future design
education, research and practice, together with its economic, political and social impacts of the
era, will also be discussed during the conference.

Design educators, practitioners, and researchers are invited to join our cross-disciplinary
conversation. Submitted work should relate to one or more of the sub-themes below:

NEWS FROM TEL AVIV!

Adital Ela, sustainable Design Lecturer at HIT Holon Institute of Technology, confirms us the consolidation of Desis ME, in her own words: We are happy to launch the 7th DESIS dot here in the Middle East where the long for social innovation and sustainability comes from a genuine wish to join the grassroots movement of collaboration and enhance the common traditions and cultural wealth.

We hope to learn and enrich the network with the local social innovation practices and explore new visions for the sustainable Mediterranean city under the theme of "urban dynamization".

The local promoter of Desis ME will be the Faculty of Design at HIT- Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Israel. Adital Ela (contact@aditalela.com) will be the coordinator and contact person. 

We are currently working to establish the ME network and are in search for partnering design schools in our region.

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We are VERY pleased to communicate that 2 new dots are under construction within DESIS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: DESIS INDIA and DESIS MIDDLE EAST (ME)

Thanks to the eagerly efforts of Adital Ela in Israel (HIT Holon University of Technology) and Shashank Metha in India (NID National Institute of Design) this year 2010 we will be witnessing the construction of two new dots on our net to share visions and map cases of social innovation world wide.

Welcome to this two chapters. In the coming days we will be posting more detailed information regarding their processess.

the second founding members meeting of DESIS-China was organised at evening of Oct. 19 after DESIS forum. in the meeting, participants discussed the projects, collaborations and experiences in last period and the next agenda. 

Collecting the diffused social resources.
A design workshop for social innovation and sustainability.

Ayyem Zamen means something like 'elderly immigrants' and is a place in the north of Paris where Turkish and North African retired immigrants are welcome to spend part of their day in front of a tea of coffee. Ayyem Zamen is one of the 3

Collaborative services
Design of enabling sharing solutions
Cases and scenarios of design for social innovation and sustainability hosted in the Design Made 09: My perfect neighbours exhibition at the Korean Design Foundation in Seoul from 22th Sept. to 8th Oct. 2009.

“Drills are used in average 4 hours in all their life but if I lend mine to my neighbours I am sure it will come back broken one day…”; “I have plenty of stuff that I don’t use in my basement but it’s too complicated to find who may need them…”; “People don’t pay attention when they use good collectively. They don’t clean them after use and they don’t maintain them properly just because they don’t feel responsible for it…”

DESIS was invited to present an installation during the Festival of Creativity which took place in Florence, Italy from 15th to 18th of October 2009. This fourth edition of the Festival was dedicated to the future of the city in which a part was dedicated to the 'shared & collaborative city'. DESIS proposed there a number of case studies and projects, collected and developed by the design schools that have joined the DESIS network from lany different countries.

"NEXT DESIGN - International Exhibition of Design for Social Innovation & Sustainability" is co-hosted by College of Design & Innovation Tongji University, DESIS-China and Shanghai International Creative Industry Week from 15th October to 21st October 2009 at 800XIU on Changde Road.

Desis Forum on the theme of “CONNECTING THE WORLD: DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY” was announced the opening on the afternoon of October 19th