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WELCOME TO THE SOCIAL DESIGN SITE : JUNE 2010

SocialDesignSite has conducted three more SoYouKnow events. Two members of the SocialDesignSite team, Glória Costa and Estuardo Calderón moderated 3 events in Portugal: Lisbon and Matosinhos.

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The first SoYouKnow took place on May 13-15, 2010 at ESAD Design School in Matosinhos, Portugal. It had the participation of one international keynote, Lars Diederichsen from Instituto Meio, São Paulo, and one portuguese social entrepreneur, Frederico Lucas, founder of Novos Povoadores . The second day of workshop took place on the coworking space The Hub - Porto. The participants felt inspired and shared creative design solutions for everyday life problems.

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The second SoYouKnow workshop was conducted on May 17, 2010 in Lisbon, at the coworking space Betalab. Enhancing the positive outcomes of being involved in a coworking spac, the participants delivered solutions on how to help blind people to be more integrated in society.

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The third SoYouKnow workshop was conducted on May 20-22, 2010 at FBAUL - Fine Arts University of Lisbon. We had the participation from Ana Filipa Pias from the voluntary design project Design é preciso and Miguel Alves Martins, from Social Entrepreneurship Institution. The workshop had a great feedback from the participants and was a great success.

We thank all the participants, the SocialDesignSite Team, the keynotes and our contact persons in Portugal. Without any of you this could have not happened!

SocialDesignSite presented at the Kunst Apotheke Salon

On March 18, 2010, SocialDesignSite presented the ongoing research and moderated a discussion on social design at the Kunst Apotheke Salon Session 6 organised by SideBySide Studio (I-Wei Li) in Berlin. Kunst Apotheke Salon is open to cultural workers who want to receive critical input, creative stimulation and constructive feedback in a safe and friendly space with international colleagues. A visualisation of the conversation at the salon and the notes of participants will follow.

SocialDesignSite community platform on Ning

SocialDesignSite is happy to announce that it has created our community platform on Ning . This platform was created in response to the valuable feedback of our participating projects. Through this platform we seek to offer a convenient and lively communication environment, enhance connections between the members of our community and provide opportunities for sharing, participation and collaboration.
Here you can share any kind of information, network with the people you like, provide content, engage in discussions, join and create groups.
Feel free to get the most out of this platform – it is here for you to use!
We hope that this platform will bring you enjoyable and useful experiences.

cloud pavilion (HUN)

The cloud pavilion (in Budapest, Hungary) is a mobile outdoor pavilion which needs low energy for transport, installation and operation and is eligible for raising the public’s attention toward environmental and climatic issues.

Jövőház Nonprofit Co. is based in Budapest, Hungary aiming to promote renewable energy sources and eco-friendly building technologies.

The cloud pavillion was their latest development and design. The cloud pavilion was completed in July 2007. Its gross floorspace is ca. 100 sqm, height ca. 6 m and due to its inflatable structure it can be installed within 24 hours. Its operation is supported by solar energy equipments.

During the last 12 month test period the pavilion was performed at four different places in Budapest, taking part in artistic and educational workshops in collaboration with partner organisations.

The cloud pavilion is an ongoing project, and the responsible non-profit is working on improvement of technical content and on creative concepts of future actions as well.