by Francesca Valsecchi

The 2012 edition of DESIS workshop has been organized from november 30th to December 3rd by DESIS Lab School of Design Jiangnan University in partnership with UK School of Arts at University of Glasgow. As in the tradition of DESIS workshops at Jiangnan University, the main focus is on service design discipline, and this year topic focussed on health and public services. The workshop topic aim to explore how policy makers, local health-care personnel (doctors, nurses etc), designers and the public audience can be involved in more sustainable health services, and how design can contribute to this scenario.

by Virginia Tassinari

On October 26th and 27th, the International Design Biennale of Liège (Belgium) - entitled "Reciprocity" www.designliege.be - hosted the first DESIS Public & Collaborative days. This has been a unique opportunity to reflect upon the past year’s Public & Collaborative cluster project. Within the exciting framework of Reciprocity, for two full days we have discussed how in our projects the "co-produced", "people-powered services" have represented shown their potential for societal innovation, the role therein of policymakers, civil servants and exchanged lessons learnt for the developing of future projects.

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.