DESIS Philosophy Talk #1: "Emerging Aesthetics"
Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 4:53pmBy Virginia Tassinari
DESIS Philosophy Talk #1: "Emerging Aesthetics"
March 2nd 2012 Parsons, The New School for Design New York, U.S.A.
DESIS Philosophy Talks is a series of talks aimed at creating a dialogue between design for social innovation research and the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. The purpose of this new initiative is to encourage a theoretical and philosophical discourse starting from the state of the art of design for social innovation and sustainability.
Website partnership with SIX (Social Innovation eXchange)
Submitted by Eunji Cho on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 5:45pmRecently SIX launched a new website which supports the work of members and shares resources and insights. News from the field of social innovation globally, projects and ideas offering solutions to social challenges will be updated to SIX website, and DESIS network became one of initial partner websites to feed contents to SIX website. From February 2012, contents selected from DESIS website will be shared at SIX website.
2011 DESIS symposium “Transformation Design for Public”
Submitted by admin on Sun, 02/12/2012 - 2:28pmby Miaosen Gong
Master level program in Social and Collaborative Housing: Designing, planning and managing the contemporary housing
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:21pmThe program is organized by the POLI.design consortium and supported by the School of Design and the School of Civil Architecture, and by the Departments INDACO (Industrial Design, Arti, Comunicazione e Moda) and DPA (Progettazione dell’Architettura) of Politecnico di Milano.
DESIS Korea launched
Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 2:48pmA new DESIS local branch was initiated in South Korea. On November 23rd, 2011, DESIS Korea was officially launched at Seoul National University where initial members and partners gathered and celebrated its birth together. Professor Ezio Manzini joined the launching event to give an opening speech followed by brief introduction of the members and the parters on their current projects and interests.
DESIS NY at Core 77
Submitted by andrea.mendoza on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 2:41pmDesign Magazine and resource Core 77, has reported what they call "the beginnings of a (critical) typology of 'social design' ".
DESIS exhibition, from Denver to Beijing
Submitted by admin on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:06amThe Cumulus conference in Denver organized by the Rocky Mountain College for Art and Design featured a Design Expo. It combined both case studies collected during the DESIS Light Expo back in May 2011 at the Cumulus Conference at Strate College in Paris, and case studies from DESIS Labs in the US. Mariana Amatullo and Eduardo Strakowskij, curators of the exhibition, selected and presented the projects into different thematic areas.
Design, a Catalyst of Sustainable India
Submitted by admin on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 2:37pmDESIS India is organizing the symposium 'Design, a Catalyst of Sustainable India' which will take place at the NID (National Institute of Design) on 27, 28 January 2012.
The symposium is organized as a concluding event of the two-week long international open electives at NID.
DESIS 2011 Tongji-Aalto-DuocUC University Design Summer Camp
Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:05amTags
DESIS ChinaDesign For the Rural and Urban Connection to Promote Social Innovation.
August 25th 2011 til September 6th 2011
LOCATION
Aalto Design Factory, Sino-Finnish Center, Tongji University
Xian Qiao village, Shu Xin Town, Chongming Island
4th OJO AL SANCOCHO COMMUNITARIAN FILM FESTIVAL
Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:01am
September 16th - 23rd 2011, Bogotá, Colombia
This year, in its 4th edition, the international Communitarian Film and Video Festival, Ojo Al Sancocho, based in Bogotá, has kindly opened a space for DESIS to share visions and enable dialogue regarding the role of representing active communities using the tools of design communication.
