Design for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Thematic Area 3 (TA3) called “Design for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship” includes DESIS Labs’ projects with the keywords Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, and Design. The aim of this TA is to gain deeper insights into these projects’ characteristics, specifically their aims, methodologies, results and the stakeholders involved.

Given that the possible intersections between entrepreneurship, social innovation and contemporary design are many, and highly diverse, the following sub-themes have been defined within this Thematic Area. They cluster together diverse projects, and in this way, they offer a more precise expression of what is actually happening in DESIS Labs in regard to lines of action and thought.

In this spirit, the DxSIE thematic area is currently characterised by three main sub-areas:

1 Design for Distributed Production and Circular Economy
2 Design for a New Craftsmanship
3 Design for Social Inclusion and Empowerment