DESIS is a network of schools of design and other schools, institutions, companies and non-profit organizations interested in promoting and supporting  design for social innovation and sustainability. It is a light, no-profit  organization, conceived as a network of partners collaborating in a peer-to-peer spirit. This international network is articulated in several DESIS-Local (that are sub-networks within a specified local area). DESIS-International is therefore the framework where the different DESIS-Local coordinate themselves  and where some global initiatives are taken.

DESIS09 is a collaborative project between the DESIS-Local founding members and a  milestone of DESIS-International. It consists of a series of case collection  activities and design exercises to be done by the DESIS-Local networks. Its  objectives is to reinforce these local networks as well as propose and diffuse the theme of design for social innovation in each country. This activity is based on the called DESIS09-Toolkit01, created and proposed by DESIS-International Network. It is composed by a set of prepared files targeted to facilitate each participant institution, their professors and students to organize the workshop by themselves. The toolkit enable different and customized applications accordingly to each local context and demands.

This blog will present all DESIS09 activities, in particular for China and Brazil.