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.

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.

The DESIS Philosophy Talk is a new initiative proposed by DESIS in order to enhance the dialogue between
practice & theory, between design & philosophy. The idea is to match practical issues and topics emerging from
design practice in the field of social innovation around the world with insights from the philosophical tradition.
Several notions, such as beauty, public vs. private, community, etc., which normally belong to the field of social
sciences appear to emerge from a kind of “phenomenological” study of different cases of design for social
innovation. The DESIS Philosophy Talks want to explore them from a philosophical, theoretical perspective
and see how the result of these discussions can add meaningful value to the design practice and possibly also
philosophy.