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DESIS Newsletter #4 - Displaying Life
Feburary / March 2011, DESIS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK www.desis-network.org

*Designing a successful display system is a task that challenges not only
budgets and manpower but also, and specially, creativity. In our case this
is even greater since we are not only talking about designer’s creativity,
but about how to give visibility to those who, by using their creativity,
are improving their livelihoods, our: creative communities.
Furthermore we are talking about a creativity that shows solutions that are
already in action, new business models and also ideas which in some cases
are not yet replicated on a given territory but potentially spreadable.
Having said that, in this edition we would like to highlight the relevance
of some events (such as the DESIS Forum in Paris) in which teachers,
students, members of the network, partners and friends, by having shared the
same pre-production display format are able to show their work and
particular perspectives on design. - The Editor*
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INDEX
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* FOCUS <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_focus>* | DESIS Forum @ Cumulus conference, May
21, 2011
* EVENTS <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_comingevents>* | Experimentcity network meeting
- - PERL conference - - DESIS Turkey Kick-off meeting
* NEWS <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_news>* | UNEP workshop in New York - - Destination
2022 Design for Sustainability conference in Japan - - DESIS ME
conference at HIT, Israel
* RESEARCHES <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_research>*| DESIS Brasil - DESIS Africa, a
collaborative platform for mutual learning in social innovation
* CASES <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_inspirations>* | Café Tome, dedicated to all
those in love with rice and music
* RESOURCES <#12e7c41fd52ddb14_voice>* | Secret Garden Party, by John
Thackara
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FOCUS
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DESIS International
DESIS forum @ Cumulus Paris conference, May 21th, 2011

[image: DESIS Forum invitation]
Show your project. Exchange your experience with that of others.
To participate and submit your project, please download *submission
kit*<http://www.desis-network.org/sites/default/files/DESIS+Forum+Submission+Kit.zip>.
(submission deadline: 25th April)
More information on how to participate can be found at
http://www.desis-network.org

* Design schools as social resources and the Open Design Program*
*By Ezio Manzini*

To train someone to be a designer means to increase his/her skills in
conceiving and developing design proposals for a better possible world. And
therefore classes, workshops and seminars are organised, and proposals are
conceived and developed, to make experiences on it. The majority of these
proposals, being seen as didactic exercises ends-up in the teacher’s drawers
and computer files. This huge amount of lost design works represents a waste
of students’ and teachers’ creativity, enthusiasm and expertise. In the
past, this waste was, or has been seen as, inevitable. Today, it should not
be like that: design schools, with their potential in terms of students’
enthusiasm and teachers’ experience, are a social resource: a potentially
powerful and useful actor in the transition towards sustainability.
To valorise these resources a large design and research program should be
conceived and developed: an open design program based on a peer-to-peer
approach, including design schools from all over the world.

This Open Design Program will be started in Paris, the 21st of May, at the
DESIS Forum that has been organized back-to-back with the Cumulus Conference
(http://www.cumulusparis2011.org). The DESIS Forum is in fact 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. And therefore,
hopefully, it will be the first step in the realization of the valorization
program that seems to us so urgent and necessary.
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EVENTS
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Europe
 Experimentcity network second meeting, Milan, March, 24-26, 2011 [image:
Collaborative housing]
 The Experimentcity network consists on partners from eight European
countries that meet to discuss and compare *collaborative housing *solutions
and strategies.
‘Collaborative housing’, refers to original ways to approach the shelter
issue, for a planet in which both population grows and spaces are shrinking.

To read further, please visit: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/388
For a detailed program, please visit:
http://experimentcity.net/en/excity-europe
For further information please write to: liat.rogel at mail.polimi.it

Turkey
 PERL conference, Istanbul, Turkey, March 14 - 15, 2011
[image: PERL conference, Turkey]
PERL, The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living
has set sails for its coming conference: Enabling Responsible Living, March
14 – 15, 2011 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey. The venue: Maltepe University.

* To be highlighted at the conference, there is the role of video in the
sustainability’s discourse, this by means of a “Student Film Competition”. *
To know more please visit: http://www.perlprojects.org

DESIS Turkey Kick-off meeting, March 16, 2011
[image: DESIS Turkey Kick-off meeting]
Photo: Najla Osseiran, Flower Pin Design Workshop at Sulukule for the Spring
Sale, Istanbul, Turkey

Based in Istanbul, Istanbul Technical University ITU, has prepared an
inauguration meeting to share knowledge on social innovation, sustainability
and social responsibility projects initiated by designers in Turkey and the
establishment of DESIS Türkiye local network as part of the international
DESIS network.
* Besides the launching of this node, DESIS International looks forward at
learning from all the ancient traditions and wisdom of this edging land, the
land of Constantinople, Byzantium, Stambul, the land where East and West
meet. *
For more information please contact:
Prof.Dr. Özlem ER (ozlem.er at itu.edu.tr), Arş.Gör.Dr. Çiğdem KAYA (
cigdem.kaya at itu.edu.tr
 <cigdem.kaya at itu.edu.tr>)
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NEWS
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U.S.A.
 DESIS members to participate in the UNEP workshop
"Sustainable Consumption and Production: Transforming Lifestyles"
in New York City on March 2nd 2011
*By Lara Penin*
[image: UNEP workshop in New York] Photo: Lara Penin

What can policy makers coming from instances such as the UN (and their 19th
session of the Commission on Sustainable Development CSD-19), share and
learn from Networks- such as DESIS- for what regards social innovation,
awareness raising, communications, and education for sustainable lifestyles.
At the UNEP workshop "Sustainable Consumption and Production: Transforming
Lifestyles” we will get to know. To know more please visit:
http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/387

Japan
 Destination 2022 Design for Sustainability Conference in Japan
*By Prof. Fumi Masuda and Mie Suzuki*
[image: DESIS Japan]
 In the framework of the 5th conference for Sustainability DESTINATION 2022
that took place in Yamagata, Japan, the first steps towards a solid
consolidation of Desis Japan had place thanks to the efforts and interest of
the Academia, NGO's and specially thanks to the energy of young people
working on the social innovation field. For more information can be found
at: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/379

Israel
DESIS ME CONFERENCE *'The future Role of Design'*
HIT (Holon Institute of Technology), Israel, December 1, 2010
 *By Adital Ela*
[image: Conference at HIT]
On December 1st 2010, the faculty of Design at HIT-Holon Institute of
Technology, Israel, hosted the first DESIS ME event - DESIS ME, this is the:
Mediterranean branch of DESIS. The event aimed to raise questions such as:
* _What is the future role of Design?
_Can Design Influence Social Change?
_How can design-based approaches reinforce Social Innovation towards
sustainability?

Study cases were found to be rather original given the particular context of
Tel Aviv, a truly cosmopolitan city in the middle of the Middle East.*
For more information please visit:
http://www.sustainable-everyday.net/hit2010
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RESEARCHES
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DESIS Brasil – DESIS Africa
 “Video - Dialogues Brazil-Africa, a collaborative platform of support for
mutual learning in social innovation”
 *By Carla Cipolla*
[image: DESIS Brazil-Africa]
In the framework of DESIS International two of its members started this
collaborative project entitled: “Dialogues Brazil-Africa, a collaborative
platform of support for mutual learning in social innovation”.
The idea here, beyond having African partners indicating one social
innovation that could match a peer in Brazil and thus enable their dialogue
and sharing of tools and visions, is to find in Brazil for each African
initiative at least one analogous Brazilian case.
To read further, please visit: http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/383
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CASES
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Café Tome
Dedicated to all those in love with rice and music
Nowadays hundreds of restaurants and cafés dealing with better ways of
eating are cropping up all over the word, so many that what once was really
different is today becoming part of the normal city landscape and thus not
bringing much new to the urban scene, specially in terms of value and
quality. However, we have found that there are also “new” approaches
cropping up, ideas with a strong “something else” behind made them not only
unique but full of value, restaurants and cafés that go beyond the mere and
at times just trendy organic, green and or vegetarian slant, like this one:
[image: cafe tome]
Café Tome, founded by a Doctor dealing with Japanese alternative medicine,
this restaurant and café not only serves a “well thought” rice (in slow food
words) but also invites people to sew and harvest it.
A new business model and valuable place where the motto:
“no music, no life – no rice, no life” in a land where the bread is getting
trendy, talks about the relevance of keep traditions - an music - alive.
http://blog.tome-rice.com
http://www.tome-rice.com

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RESOURCES
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Secret Garden Party, on Power and Love
 “Power in this sense is the drive to achieve one’s purpose, to get one’s
job done, to grow.
Love is the drive towards the unity of the separated... the drive to
reconnect and make whole that which has become or appears fragmented”.
[image: Secret Garden Party]
An article by John Tackara talking about power and love. In his words,
remarkable in terms of design is:
“Their positive energy beautifully complements the serious but sometimes dry
work of design researchers and social innovators: we need each other.”
To read further, please visit http://www.desis-network.org/?q=node/381
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Newsletter Editor: Andrea Mendoza (andrea.mendoza at polimi.it), Designer:
Eunji Cho

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