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.

TAKE PART

To take part in the UK DESIS Forum you should send a case study of your project(s) using the template provided here to participate@desis-uk.org before Friday 3rd May 2013.

ATTEND

To attend the event, please register here.

WEBSITE

www.desis-uk.org

TWITTER

@desis_uk

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

Do you fancy yourself as a public speaker or tremble at the thought of even leaving a voicemail? Do you ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ or feel the heat and stay out of the kitchen? Either way, read on, this performance is for you…

What Goes A-Round, Comes A-Round is a reading of CSM Fellow David Matthews’s critically acclaimed book, Looking for a Fight: how a writer took on the boxing world – from the inside. But it’s a reading with a difference. Staged inside Richard Wentworth’s inspirational Black Maria installation, this one-hour workshop is a taster of a forthcoming ‘main event’: a test of the oratory skills, bravery and performative powers of random members of the public, which challenges them to read in three-minute rounds, chronologically, through Matthews’s 310-page cult classic.

Beneath the work’s surface entertainment, the purpose of this unique performance storytelling is to confront fears, anxieties and preconceptions about the role of the individual as performer, given that public speaking is the most common form of performance we face. The work further examines the physical and psychological ‘nakedness’ that writers, fighters and performers share, and provokes thought about how other creators’ material can be interpreted, analysed and critiqued through immersive practise.

What Goes A-Round, Comes A-Round seeks to explore the perceptions, fears and hegemonies around notions of voice and violence, particularly amongst young people and those that are less familiar with public speaking and performance. To this end, invitation to participate in the project is being circulated via social media and also networks linked to London’s schools and FE colleges – in doing so widening participation in the arts.

This microcosm is a part and pilot of a larger project, which aims to complete the reading of the book, cover to cover, and record the process both visually and audibly via engagement with other groups at other venues. The larger project is particularly focused on marginalised groups such as offenders, and is linked to the activities of the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC) ‘Wordlab’ project, which among other aims explores ways of developing literacy/communications/life skills via the arts.

Public And Collaborative Lecture Series (Lecture 5)

Up the Down Escalator   Design Thinking for the 21st Century by Prof Kees Dorst

Professor of Design at the University of Technology, Sydney, Centre Director for Designing Out Crime

Professor in Entrepreneurial Design of Intelligent Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology.

More info at: http://www.designingoutcrime.com

15th Feb 2013 / 17:30

The LVMH Lecture Theatre (E002/3)

Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design,
King’s Cross Campus,
Granary Building,
1 Granary Square
London,
N1C 4AA

Free admission, all welcome. Please RSVP if you would like to attend: d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk

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 (Lecture 3)

https://vimeo.com/53164835

01 Nov 2012 / 18:30 The LVMH Lecture Theatre (E003)

https://vimeo.com/55114412

Friday 30th Nov 2012 / 19:00, The LVMH Lecture Theatre.

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.

Bring along your favourite social enterprise – an example that you like and can talk about.
We’ll use these as the starting point for some collaborative rapid social enterprise prototyping. You can pitch for ‘Try It’ funding at the end of the week where you can win money to develop your ideas further.

Date: Tuesday 13 Novmeber
Time: 11am – 4pm
Location: Room A115, CSM, King’s Cross, N1C 4AA
Cost: Free, booking essential

The winning proposal will receive £50,000 to implement or scale the idea.

As part of the UAL On The Road Safe Cycling Event at CSM Kings Cross on Thursday 27th September the Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub (SRvDI) and Bikeoff.org will be holding a fast and fun collaborative concepting workshop to catalyse new ideas to tackle cycle theft. Marco Zappalorto from NESTA will introduce the challenge and SRvDI staff will facilitate the workshop.

To join in, come along and bring with you an example of a product, service or other innovation that you think is a good response to cycle theft – one that you are happy to talk about.

Time: Thursday 27 September 2012 15:00-18:00
Location: CSM KX Room D117

RSVP d.d.davies@csm.arts.ac.uk

Hope to see you there.

Bikeoff/Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub

ATM privacy zone artwork has now been installed and in 6 test sites across Camden and Westminster.

The intervention is aimed at reducing ATM crimes at test sites, by reinforcing the concept of defensible space via cost effective and simple-to-implement interventions. These will be measured for their ability to deter ATM crime at a unit cost substantially lower than crime prevention services typically delivered by ATM centred measures and technologies.

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 BBC radio programme; Gamman will also feature on Gary Kemp’s ‘History of Gangs’ on Sky TV in Spring 2013.