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Dear list members, Please let me draw your attention to the following call for participation and contributions to the DESIS UK AHRC funded networking project: 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 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, Ezio Manzini, in addition to presentations from academic funders and facilitators concerned with promotion of the DESIS agenda within UK HE and beyond the academy. Keynotes will be followed by a DESIS UK forum where educators will present short case studies of projects they have delivered, and share insights they have gained through pedagogic practice, delivering (or trying to deliver) student projects focused on design for social innovation and sustainability. 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. For more info and to submit a case study visit: http://www.desis-uk.org Best wishes Matt Malpass -- Dr. Matt Malpass Senior Lecturer MA Industrial Design | Research Fellow Critical Design Central Saint Martins | University of the Arts London -- Scanned by iCritical. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------