62 The University of Johannesburg (UJ) DESIS Lab is a multidisciplinary community of practice, based at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, that seeks to better understand how design can best serve the emerging needs of broader society, specifically in the face of inequality, modernity, climate change and the rapid change in technology. As a lab, we undertake design, design education and design research projects through participatory, and preferably multi-stakeholder, human-centred methodologies in order to bring about appropriately considered change. The UJ DESIS Lab includes participants from a range of design, art and architectural disciplines. Activities undertaken within the auspices of the lab include practice, teaching, research activities and information dissemination. The DESIS Network is an international network of 48 design labs, based in design schools and designoriented universities, actively involved in promoting and supporting sustainable change. The DESIS association was formed between the Politenico di Milano (Italy), The New School (USA), University of Arts London (UK), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Jiangnan University (China), and Tongji University (China). In June 2014 and the UJ DESIS Lab (originally named the DSD DESIS Lab) was accepted as the fourth lab based in Africa shortly thereafter. The UJ DESIS Lab meets during the academic year to demonstrate, discuss and interrogate research, projects, methods and products that impact on the intersection and interplay between design, society and development in our specific context. For more info please visit www.uj.ac.za/faculties/artdesign-and-architecture/desis/ UJ DESIS Lab
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