Please let me draw your attention to the following call for case studies and participation.
DESIS within the UK HE Landscape Northumbria University, Tuesday 21st May 2013
The first event in the DESIS UK Network series will focus on the development and delivery of Design for social innovation and sustainability (DESIS) within the UK HE Landscape.
Keynotes will include:
* Ezio Manzini: An introduction to a vision of HE as a social resource able to trigger and foster achievement of societal goals and challenges, from DESIS Network founder.
* Carolyn Butterworth: Sheffield Live Projects
* Marco Zappalorto: Nesta Challenge prizes (Social Impact Fund)
* Josephine Green: On the need to frame a cogent, compelling and coherent argument for a new socio-political and economic framework to support social innovation on a scarcity to abundance (people as resource) basis.
Keynotes will be followed by a forum and presentation of short case studies of projects carried out within UK HE in a context of design led social innovation. A series of group discussions will go into the topics raised in keynotes and case studies. Finally a plenary session will close the day.
Call for participation
We invite submissions to the forum of case studies that demonstrate pedagogic address to societal challenges by working with diverse communities of geography and interest, beyond the academy. We are interested in; the barriers and enablers to project delivery, the process and outcomes of projects (over their outputs), also the synergies or contradictions in relation to broader HEI agendas e.g. REF Impact, Widening Participation, to seek to understand DESIS projects as a situated social practice inside and outside the UK HE.
Action required to take part in the UK DESIS Forum you should send a case study of your project(s) using the template provided here:
http://www.desis-uk.org/documents/DESIS-UK.zip to [log in to unmask] before Friday 3rd May 2013.
To attend the event register here http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5733866148
For more information see: http://www.desis-uk.org
Best wishes
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Dr. Matt Malpass
Lecturer MA Industrial Design | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Critical Design
Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub | Design Against Crime Research Centre
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design | University of the Arts London
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