DESIS Forum/Showcase is a project of the DESIS Network in collaboration with the Cumulus Association featuring an overview of initiatives in social innovation and sustainability in global design education.
Design for social innovation overview: projects, images, exchanges
Helsinki, May 26th, 2012, 10h00-13h00, at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, Back-to-back with the Cumulus Conference: The Northern Mandate.
DESIS Forum/Showcase Format: “4-slides exhibit – 4-minutes presentations”
Show your project. Exchange your experience with that of others. Get an overview of what is going on in the field.
Over the past decades a variety of social actors throughout the world – institutions, enterprises, non-profit organizations, and, most of all, networks of collaborative people – have moved beyond mainstream models of thinking and doing, inventing new ways of living and producing. They are viable and sustainable solutions to complex problems such as: social cohesion, urban regeneration, accessibility to healthy food, water and sustainable energy management.
The design community, and the design schools in particular, can do a lot to support these promising social experiments: is your school involved in these kinds of initiatives? Would you like to be involved? Are you interested to know more about design for social innovation with an emphasis on sustainability? Join us for the DESIS Forum/Showcase in Helsinki!
DESIS Forum/Showcase is a format conceived to give design teachers and students the opportunity to showcase their projects, to present them and to exchange their experiences in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability.
DESIS Forum/Showcase – Helsinki will be held back-to-back with the Cumulus Conference The Northern Mandate, hosted by Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.
The Forum/Showcase is organized by DESIS Network within the Cumulus-DESIS partnership and in collaboration with Aalto University.
Deadline for the submission: 10th of May 2012
Please download here the Desis Forum/Showcase template
Please send the Desis Forum/Showcase template at the following address: desisforumhelsinki@gmail.com
Preliminary Programme. Subject to change.
DESIS Forum+
DESIS Forum/Showcase + DESIS Projects Up-date
Saturday 26 May 2012
Venue: Aalto University School of Economics
Runeberginkatu 14 – 16
Forum 10.00-13.00
Tiina Laurila on behalf of Aalto University hosts DESIS Forum +
Chairmans: Tiina Laurila, Ezio Manzini, Virginia Tassinari
Opening
10:00-10:10 Cumulus welcome & explanation of the content of the Forum+ (Virginia Tassinari – Mad Faculty-Belgium, Ezio Manzini, Politecnico di Milano, Parsons The New School of Design – NY)
DESIS Forum/Showcase
10:10 – 10:20 DESIS Forum/Showcase intro and presentation online forum Desis Forum/Showcase (still to be confirmed: Francois Jegou?)
10:20 – 11:20 Desis Forum/Showcase: Cumulus Petcha-Kutcha style presentation of Cumulus projects
11:20 – 11:30 break (with projections of DESIS Films & video)
DESIS Projects up-date
11:30 – 12:15 Desis PhilosophicalTalk in general and Ph.Talk#1 – launch online discussion on the Desis Philosophical talk blog (Virginia Tassinari, Mad Faculty-Belgium,)
12:15 – 12.45 presentation idea of the Desis Clusters Project and in detail of the Cluster Public & Collaborative – presentation website public & collaborative (Eduardo Starkowski, Parsons The New School of Design – NY)
12:45-12:50 Andrea Mendoza Presentation of the initiative DESIS Films & video -Desis LAB Colombia
12:50 – 13:00 Ezio Manzini (Politecnico di Milano, Parsons The New School of Design – NY): What’s Next and wrap up (+ discussion)
Lunch break 13:00-14:00
Internal meeting for Desis Labs coordinators:
14.00-16.00
Break:
16:00-16:30
Internal meeting Public & Collaborative Cluster:
16:30 – 19:00
