The DESIS Lab advances the practice and discourse of design-enabled social innovation toward more sustainable cities. The DESIS-Lab conducts applied research into the ways in which design can enhance community-led initiatives in the development of more sustain able ways of living and working. The DESIS Lab brings together faculty and students from across the disciplines at The New School, led by Parsons The New School for Design and Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.
Parsons School of Design Strategies, Parsons DESIS Lab and the Centre for Social Innovation are partnering together to explore new ways to support recent graduates as they work to achieve social impact in their chosen fields. This post-graduate ...Read More
Join us on Thursday, February 21st 6-8:30pm
@ DESIS Parsons -- 6E 16th Street, 12th Floor Room 1203B
for a DESIS/SDN workshop with Izac Ross on using Service Blueprints.
Service blueprints are a key tool for designers to understand existing service systems and ...Read More
Lecture Series - Fall 12 - Part 2: Why?
In this panel discussion, we will explore the question of why services need to be designed and examine the difference between bottom up and top down approaches in delivering services in New ...Read More
Lecture One: What is Service Design? Do we need to design services in NYC?
Curious about the current landscape of service design in NYC? Why do services need to be designed and how do we begin to understand service ecologies? Join ...Read More
This event is an in-depth discussion of the notion of “public” in a context in which new forms of active and collaborative behaviors emerge. More precisely, it is based on the observation that contemporary social movements indicate the viability of ...Read More
DESIS Showcase is an initiative of DESIS Network in collaboration with Cumulus Association in order to provide an overview of what is happening in the global design education in the field of social innovation and sustainability.
Design for social innovation overview: ...Read More
On the 26th and 27th October 2012, DESIS organizes Public & Collaborative Days. These two P&C days will be dedicated to the discussion of the specific theme of Design for Public Innovation and take the opportunity to formulate some critical ...Read More
NEW YORK, August 29, 2012 | The Parsons DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) at Parsons The New School for Design and the Public Policy Lab were recently awarded a 2012 Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Fund grant for ...Read More
Parsons DESIS Lab presents
Public & Collaborative NYC
Lecture Series
Discussants:
Rachel Meltzer, The New School for Public Engagement
Moderator:
William Morrish, Parsons The New School for Design
Building on the experience of a series of recent action-research projects, Jégou, founder of the sustainable innovation lab Strategic ...Read More
Parsons DESIS Lab presents
Public & Collaborative NYC
Lecture Series
Discussants:
Edgar Cahn, David A. Clarke School of Law
Rick McGahey, The New School for Public Engagement
Moderator:
Michele Kahane, The New School for Public Engagement
Why do public services get increasingly expensive yet often decreasingly effective? Boyle explores ...Read More
The current financial, economic and social crises occurring both in the United States and Europe have placed renewed pressure on public sector organizations to radically reinvent themselves, and to generate more value for society and for citizens. Design holds massive ...Read More
During spring 2012 a public lecture series will bring together leading European and local New York City designers with New York City public policymakers to explore the intersection of social innovation and public service.
The Lecture series organized by Eduardo Staszowski ...Read More
Distinguished Visiting Professor Ezio Manzini will be awarded the 2012 Sir Misha Black Medal at public ceremony held at the Royal College of Art on March 8th. Professor Ezio Manzini of Italy has been working for more than two decades ...Read More
DESIS Lab Presents
Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series
ENACTING OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY: THE CASE OF SERVICE DESIGNERS
With Anne-Laure Fayard
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Time: 6:30 to 8:00pm
Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY
Anne-Laure Fayard will present findings from a qualitative ...Read More
Tags: design strategies, DESIS Lab, Service Design, Service Design Performances
DESIS Lab Presents
Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series
DESIGNING SERVICES/DESIGNING SOCIETIES
With Lucy Kimbell
Said Business School, University of Oxford and Fieldstudio, London
Date: Monday, March 21, 2011
Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY
In this talk Lucy will ...Read More
Tags: design strategies, DESIS Lab, Service Design, Service Design Performances
DESIS Lab Presents
Service Design Performances – Spring 11 Series
SERVICE DESIGN: MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS
With Andy Polaine
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011
Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: 80 5th Avenue, 8th Floor, Room 802, NY
Service Design is more than the sum ...Read More
Tags: design strategies, DESIS Lab, Interaction Design, Service Design, Service Design Performances
In this article for Urban Omnibus Laura Forlano an Adjunct Faculty member in the Design and Management program at Parsons The New School for Design and a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell University sat down with several leading designers and researchers ...Read More
Tags: DESIS Lab, Service Design, Service Design Performances
Service Design Performances – Fall 10 Series
This is also Service Design Thinking
Marc Stickdorn
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: Orientation Room ("Bark Room") at 2 W 13th Street, NY
During this presentation Marc Stickdorn will introduce new methods and tools ...Read More
Tags: DESIS Lab, Mobile Ethnography, Service Design, Service Design Performances, Tourism
Service Design Performances - Fall 10 Series
Warts-and-all: the real practice of service design
Dr. Yoko Akama
Date: Tuesday, October 12th 2010
Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: 72 5th Avenue, room H 321
Abstract:
Service design case studies are often reported in a manner that
abstracts from the ...Read More
Tags: design strategies, DESIS Lab, Service Design, Service Design Performances
