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  • The peaceful war of times, places and interactions (and the DESIS Philosophy Talks)
    by Ezio Manzini, Virginia Tassinari
    The war of times, places and interactions has already been started. Everyday, millions of people challenge traditional ways of doing things and introduce new, different, and more sustainable behaviours. The common denominator of these initiatives is that the involved people compensate for a reduction in consumption (in goods and space) with an increase in something else that they consider more valuable. This “something else” is generally represented by the increase of their environment physical and social qualities. We can refer to them as sustainable qualities: qualities that ask for more sustainable behaviours in order to enjoy them.

  • A distributed design agency: a work in progress
    by Ezio Manzini, Anna Meroni
    Is DESIS a “distributed design research agency”? Not yet, but we are working on it! As a matter of fact, since the Meeting in Helsinki in May 2012, several steps have been taken in this direction. Some of them have produced results that are already visible and quantifiable. Others are still “under water” like inter-Labs discussion on possible initiatives (events and research programs) to be conceived and developed collaboratively. (....)

Bill Moggridge (1943-2012)

Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/10/2012 - 00:00

By Ezio Manzini

Bill Moggridge passed away on September 8th, 2012. His lifelong legacy and his beautiful smile will remain with us. Last time we met was six months ago, on March 2nd in New York, at the DESIS Philosophy Talk on social innovation, design and aesthetics. We discussed about beauty and Bill was creative, constructive and modest, like every time I met him.

DESIS Seminar: “From Sky To Earth” during the RADICAL DESIGN WEEK in Shanghai

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/20/2012 - 00:00

From October 26th to November 4th, during Radical Design Week, one of the most notable design initiatives in Shanghai in 2012 will be held. There will be over 50 activities related to different aspects of design during the week. Heading all activities, DESIS Seminar will be the highlight.

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DESIS Showcase @ the Cumulus Conference in Chile

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 00:00

The next Cumulus conference "Projecting design" will be hosted by Instituto Profesional DuocUC in Santiago (Chile) http://www.duoc.cl/cumulus2012/ and will dedicate a day to Innovation and Sustainability (November 15th, 2012). Within this context a DESIS Showcase will be hosted in order to show different cases of social innovation in Latin America (November 15th 2012- to be confirmed).

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DESIS Philosophy Talk #2.1: "Public and collaborative" From the welfare state to a partner state?

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 00:00

This event is an in-depth discussion of the notion of “public” in a context in which new forms of active and collaborative behaviors emerge. More precisely, it is based on the observation that contemporary social movements indicate the viability of a new relationship between citizens and the public realm: new socio-material assemblies where citizens and public agencies are engaged in a conversation on new services, their characteristics and in their practical production and delivery.

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DESIS Philosophy Talk

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 00:00

The DESIS Philosophy Talk is a new initiative proposed by DESIS in order to enhance the dialogue between practice & theory on the crossroads between philosophy and design. The idea is to match the practical issues and topics emerging from the design practice in the field of social innovation around the world with insights coming from the philosophical tradition. Several topics (e.g. beauty, public, community, ....) usually linked to the field of study of the social sciences and humanities, nowadays can be found - as seen through a kind of “phenomenological” lens - to emerge ever more frequently within the context of design for social innovation.

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The full series of open lectures are available at DESIS Public & Collaborative initiative website (http://www.desis-clusters.org). 

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