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DESIS group is based on a collaboration between Brazil 
(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Italy (Politecnico di Milano), working in two emerging areas in design research: service design and design for social innovation.

DESIS is part of LTDS - Technology and Social Development Laboratory, which since 1999 is specifically providing support for the execution of projects in areas of social interest, providing new standards of production, management and evaluation of social initiatives. 

The group started out by the dialogue established during the course/workshop entitled DESIGN.ISDS: Design, Social Innovation and Sustainable Development held by prof. Ezio Manzini on Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) on 2007 e 2008. A book were also published in Portoghese under the title Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability. Creative Communities, Collaborative Organizations and New Design Networks.

Previously, LTDS was Brazilian partner of the project CCSL /CCSL-Desex which investigated the potentialities of collaborative everyday life creativity (social innovations developed by the so called "creative communities") in generating and diffusing new and more sustainable ways of living in the urban environments on Brazil, India and China.

Team:
Roberto Bartholo 
Carla Cipolla
(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Ezio Manzini  
(Politecnico di Milano)

Postgrad students:
Ivan Bursztyn
Beatriz Watanabe

Research lines:
Social Innovation and Design
Service Design: theory and practice

Contact:
desis@pep.ufrj.br

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