Apologies of cross posting.

Call for Higher Education Participation at the second DESIS-UK Workshop
focusing on Enterprise and Employability

Lincoln University: Thursday 26th and Friday the 27th September 2013


We have received a positive response from social enterprises/ designers
and commissioners to the call for case studies made earlier this month to
the second DESIS UK Networking event.

We are inviting those who have experience of delivering public service
innovation or social enterprise projects (particularly those who deliver a
design-led approach or explicitly draw on design within their work), and
those who have experience commissioning innovation or design-led work in
this area, to respond to a short series of questions about their
experiences and present at a workshop hosted at the University of Lincoln
UK focusing on enterprise and employability in relation to design led
social innovation.

As a lecturer, course or institution engaging in, or with a developing
interest in design led social innovation for sustainability, we are
writing to ask for your participation at the workshop in Lincoln.


The DESIS-UK Network aims to help the Universities in promoting and
supporting Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) across
their institutions. It provides an opportunity to help shape the pedagogic
focus of DESIS in UK HE in a spirit of peer-to-peer collaboration within a
network of institutional partners.

DESIS networking events bring together design academics, design
practitioners, and community end users of design to build UK capacity for
design-led social innovation by creating connections, sharing
knowledge/experience and exchanging and reviewing existing practices and
projects.


This second DESIS-UK Networking event will explore what lies beyond Higher
Education DESIS projects. We will seek to map the potential applications
of the learning DESIS projects produce for students and understand the
roles for and requirements of designers trained in design for social
innovation and sustainability when entering the job market across the
sectors involved in social innovation. Accordingly, presentations will
explore the opportunities for graduating students to earn their living
applying their design skills, competencies and thinking working within
organisations that are active in the field of social innovation for
sustainability. We will also ask what universities could be doing to
better prepare their students for these roles.


Structure:

The workshop will run over two days. The first will provide a forum for
design agencies and others working in the field of social innovation and
sustainability, and those commissioning this work, to share their
experiences and insights with designers and academics in the HE sector.
The forum will be an opportunity for reflective discussion about social
innovation practice and the role of design within it (collaborative and
participatory approaches, user insight research, prototyping and iterative
practice and the application of Œtraditional¹ design skills), and a chance
to consider how HE institutions might use their resources to better
support/partner with those working in this field, either through student
skills development or other forms of collaboration.


The second day will provide an opportunity for further reflection on the
insights provided by those working on DESIS projects outside the academy.
This discussion may involve thinking about how the realities of working in
this space fit with the pedagogic and theoretical underpinnings of DESIS
work, and consider how HE design courses might learn and adopt ways of
working from DESIS focused agencies.


The purpose of this research is to better understand the opportunities,
challenges and requirements of working in this field, and to build a
picture of common experiences across the sectors, particularly in relation
to the current and potential contribution of design and designers to this
work and HE provision in this area.


To attend the workshop please register at:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/7485536441



Best wishes

Matt

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Dr. Matt Malpass
Lecturer MA Industrial Design | 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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