Users currently online
Locations of visitors to this page
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.

syk esad.jpg

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.






syk betalab.jpg
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.








 

syk fbaul.jpg



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

kunstapothekesalon.jpgOn 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
ningnewssds.jpg 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.
 
MISSABILITY RADIO SHOW (GBR)
Project-ImageProject-ImageProject-Image
 

The Missability Radio Show is a positive, celebratory and insightful collection of perspectives on equipment, design, disability and experience. Each of the 3 shows is 35 - 40 minutes long and includes excerpts of conversations, formal interviews and specially composed music. The Missability Radio Show aims to change the way people think about disability, and to generate images and occasions that cast disability in an empowered, resourceful and creative light.

Structured in a style reminiscent of 1950s Woman's Hour, the podcasts are loosely themed around the design of equipment such as walking frames, walking sticks, crutches, guide-dog harnesses and hearing aids. It also explores DIY approaches to customising and personalising equipment, and includes coverage of The Knitted Walking Stick Cosy Competition that was devised as part of the project.

The project development was sponsored by Dialability, an Oxfordshire-based Independent Living Centre. Volunteering at the centre provided great insight into the industries that create living aids and the professionals who distribute them.

The Missability Radio Show was made possible through interactions between Felicity Ford and the following folks; W.I.L.L. (Women Independently Living in Leitrim), TalkSign Society, Oxford Brookes University, Stitchlinks, Dialability, Shopmobility, Oxford Contemporary Music, The Oxford Bluestockings, I Knit London, Rachael Matthews, Isolde Carmody, Alicja Burzynska, Louise Ballinger, Robin Brookes, customers of Shopmobility, Jo Ross, Tim Hand and Mark Stanley.

The project addresses the social, not the medical, aspects of disability. Many features of the show also address identity, gender politics, fashion, creativity, craft and the equipment industry. The Missability Radio Show openly aspires to change social attitudes; in this respect it is considered to be relevant to social design.

 
 
 
Del.ico.us
Technorati
Digg
Furl
Blinklist
Reddit
Facebook
Google
Spread The Word
socialdesignsite.com - fostering a discourse for social design - 2007
 
   
Browse Projects By
Upload Project
 
Welcome to the socialdesignsite.com
We cannot not change the world. Fostering a discussion on Social Design
image