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) [...]

When: 11th March 2013,12:30pm until 2:00pm Where: Black Maria, The Atrium, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design King’s Cross Campus Granary Building, 1 Granary Square London, N1C 4AA [...]

Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Public And Collaborative Lecture Series (Lecture 5) Up the Down Escalator   Design Thinking for the 21st Century by Prof Kees Dorst Professor of [...]

Ed Gillespie Co-founder, Futerra – The sustainability communications agency Selling The Sizzle: Why sustainability is hotter than electric underpants Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Public And Collaborative Lecture Series [...]

Screening of BBC2 documentary ‘Gang Life’ followed by a discussion and Q&A led by David Matthews – associate producer of the film and Creative Fellow at CSM’s Design Against Crime [...]

Date: 13 November 2012 Time: 11am – 4pm Location: Room A115, CSM, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA Event details: A fast and fun half-day workshop to collaboratively catalyse social enterprise concepts. [...]

NESTA have issued a challenge to designers to come up with social innovations to tackle the issue of cycle theft and so increase cycle use (see flyer attached). The winning [...]

DACRC are working with RBS to carry out an audited evaluation of ATM privacy zone art in order to determine whether it is an effective solution for tackling ATM crime. [...]

Watch out for Prof Lorraine Gamman’s eBook ‘Gone Shopping’ published 31 July by Bloomsbury Reader downloadable from: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Shopping-Shirley-Thieves-ebook/dp/B008TPQM9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345037941&sr=8-1 The book has been covered by local press and the Robert Elms [...]