Dear DESIS community,
DESIS Coordination faced new challenges in the last months related to Covid-19 pandemic. Looking behind, despite all the difficulties, we are happy to celebrate with you that we kept all the essential regular DESIS activities and also started new ones, related to this emergency scenario (but not only).
You can see many of these initiatives in this newsletter.
Your participation is essential. If you have something in mind that you'd like to share with the network, please let us know!
Carla Cipolla
(DESIS Coordinator)
with Ingrid Bico and Matheus Ventura
(Coordination Team and... DESIS Students)
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Conversations 2020: Reset
Conversations 2020 started with a contribution written a year ago: July 2019. I don't think it's rhetorical to say that it seems a century ago. The tragedy of Covid19 is, in fact, one of those events that force us to push on the reset button. That is to reorganize our thoughts in the light of something new that has happened in the meantime.
Re-reading the contributions of those who participated in Conversations 2020 during the year, I find that everything written in those months is still important and urgent: the ecological crisis remains more catastrophic than ever. And the support to be given to a new season of social innovation, driven mainly by ecological motivations, remains a priority. But now, the pandemic crisis as it has happened and is still happening forces us to rethink everything that has been said and done so far. In this 2020, in fact, things happened that until the day before would have been unimaginable: entire production systems have stopped; billions of people have closed themselves at home and then changed their way of living and thinking. In my view, all this is not only the expression of a tragedy. It is also a social experiment of nature and dimension never seen before, whose medium and long-term effects have yet to unfold. But what we can and must do right now is to observe what has already happened and try to draw some lessons from it.
The following notes are a personal contribution to the discussion: they are two basic observations, the meaning of which is still to be interpreted, and three practical observations, which I think could have immediate design implications.
(Click here to continue reading)
Ezio Manzini
(DESIS Founder)
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News and ongoing initiatives on DESIS Network
Conversations 2020 towards a DESIS Manifesto: webinar on July 16th!
(by Teresa Franqueira, ID + DESIS Lab)
The DESIS Manifesto initiative that will be held on the 16th of July aims to gather the contributions made by several Desis Labs in the framework of the DESIS Conversations 2020 and intends to form the basis for collective and collaborative creation of DESIS Manifesto.
These contributions will now be discussed in a webinar in which the speakers will have 5 minutes to present their contribution and reflect on it in the light of the new COVID-19 context. (click here to continue reading)
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Stay tuned: the new booklet about DESIS Thematic Areas is soon to be released!
"Design for Social Innovation and Services" is the second booklet of DESIS Thematic Areas and will be released very soon. The publication, edited by Carla Cipolla and Ezio Manzini, is a continuation of the series started with "Design for Social Innovation and Cities". A third and final booklet, edited by Francesco Mazzarella and Spyros Bofylatos is already under production and will complete the series.
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DESIS Students: an initiative to connect our peers and share experiences
DESIS Students is a new initiative designed for students who participate or interact within the DESIS Labs. To start, we are conducting short individual interviews to showcase their stories and to foster community building among them. If you are a DESIS Lab coordinator/manager, please verify your email constantly - we sent a few invitations to collaborate and should open a call for participation very shortly. More info about this project will be published soon!
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DESIS Census: Labs update
As our network is growing and getting bigger, it is important to keep Labs information updated in our database and website. If you have not done it yet, please, submit updated info about your Lab! (Click here to access the form)
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Repository of projects from DESIS Labs to answer Covid-19 crisis
The DESIS Covid-19 Repository is still opened and receiving projects. We have received now 35 projects which are progressively displayed in the repository and communicated on our online channels. You can fill a quick form to send your projects, via Survey Monkey or Google Form. The call for participation on Lille World Design Capital exhibition directed to DESIS Labs enriched the repository. It is an initiative coordinated by François Jégou (around 15 labs answered the call) and are progressively being included in the repository.
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DESIS Philosophy Talks: Designing for an Ontological Turn
"Today’s environmental emergency requires specific efforts in terms of thinking/acting in designing. The consequences of anthropocentric ways of producing, consuming and living are becoming painfully clear. Design played (and often still plays) a role in this, ..." (continue reading)
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Call for papers: Strategic Design Research Journal (SRDJ)
Submissions are open until next July 15th. This Special Issue of the Strategic Design Research Journal is about the Design Contributions for the Covid-19 global emergency. (read more)
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