"Politics Please, We're Social Designers," by Cameron Tonkinwise. Posted by core jr | 1 Sep 2010 | Comments (9) On August 5th, the Parsons DESIS Lab (of which I am a member) opened an exhibition at the Abrons Arts Center in the Lower East Side of New York City.
The exhibition, running until September 15th, is part of the DESIS Lab's Amplifying Creative Communities research project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation's 2009 NYC Cultural Innovation Fund. (DESIS = Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability, an international network of researchers.) What happens if design-based social innovation is not just a way of avoiding conventional, explicit politics, but a way of undermining politics altogether? SOCIAL INTERACTION DESIGN. Service Design: an Interaction Design Perspective by Jamin Hegeman (Contagious ideas by PSST : spreading 2.0 innovation (editor = jérémy dumont, strategic planner, france))