NEWS!!!

DESIS Europe

Desis Europe dot is already active with projects, research and workshops but had not 

been effectively launched: this was one of the many activities scheduled between 

the 1st and the 4th of June in Malmö, Sweden.

Two events were organised back- 

to-back at MEDEA Lab settled in the University of Malmö: (Re)designing the Regions was a 3 day study tour organised by La 27e Région a French public innovation lab; SEE that stand for Sustainable Everyday Exploration is a workshop organised by Strategic Design Scenarios and Politecnico di Milano within the PERL (Partnership for Research and Education for Responsible Living) European project. Both overlap in time and share the same concerns: how can we innovate in local transformative processes towards sustainability; how to renovate the way public actions and policies are made and foster social innovation-based bottom- up processes towards new sustainable ways of living.

The seminar will focus on local projects such as Living Labs in Malmö and Copenhagen, the MindLab of the Danish Ministry of Finance but also on many invited participants representing original projects and institutions such as Social Entrepreneurship in Residence from the Young Foundation, WWF One Planet Mobility, UK Building Schools of the 

Future programme, the MidtLab from central Danmark region or Inciativa Joven 

from Extremadura region in Spain. The core topic was to explore the hypothesis 

of ‘planning by projects’ experienced by DESIS partners as Politecnico di Milano 

South Agricultural Park project ‘Feeding Milano’; Tonji University Chong Ming 

Island near Shanghai; Lower East Side Urban Dynamization developed by Parsons 

School. 

-Can an ‘acupuncture’ of micro-projects achieve systemic change in a city or a region? 

-Which tools to activate local projects? 

-How design-based approaches can enable such planning by projects?  

These will be some of the main questions for the participants and in particular the 

civil servants and politicians from various French regions and the City of Malmö.SEE workshop and (Re)designing the Regions in Malmö (Sweden). 

_PERL

_PERL the Partnership for Education and Research about Sustainable Living, has launch its first Newsletter which can be downloaded at: http://www.hihm.no/hihm/Prosjektsider/CCN/PERL

Celebrating Public Space: the first Human Cities Festival in Brussels...

Brussels will host the first Human Cities urban festival in early May. This biannual event will be a showcase for raising awareness of public spaces in Brussels through various meetings and events. A symposium and scientific workshops will welcome numerous Belgian and international experts, professionals and students in urban planning, architecture, design and sociology, as well as key figures from public service. They will share their experiences, work and thoughts on urban planning, and its general uses, focusing particularly public spaces. Throughout the festival the «Places to Be» exhibition will creatively promote the work and reports selected from the international call for entries launched under the framework of this European project. To emphasise the pleasure of this alternative appropriation of the city, an urban Sunday brunch will take place on 9 May 2010 in the vicinity of BOZAR. Other unique forms of entertainment will be organised throughout the festivities until 16 May. This festival is the result of a European partnership «Human Cities: sustainable urban design» supported by the European Commision’s «Culture 2007-2013» program.
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