Link | blog.developmentxdesign.org

SEE is a network of eleven European partners sharing knowledge and experience on how design can be integrated into regional and national policies to boost innovation, sustainability and social and economic development. The aim of SEE is to pool knowledge, share experiences, stimulate debate, develop new thinking and build rapport and credibility in order to influence design policy at regional and national levels.

Link | SEE

Movingcities is a Shanghai-based think-thank investigating the role that architecture and urbanism play in shaping the contemporary city.

Link | Moving Cities

The SEP platform hosts several research activities and didactic workshops. The Platform is an organization and communication tool providing an open web space and visibility for activities relating to the fields of design and sustainability in the everyday context.

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.It 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.

Link | Sustainable Everyday | DESIS NETWORK

Link | Design Trust for Public Space

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This report presents findings from a study to develop an International Design Scoreboard. A framework for ranking nations has been created that considers design at a national level as a system comprising enabling conditions, inputs, outputs and outcomes.

Link | University of Cambridge

Link | Cooper Hewitt