Lara Penin (New York) Parsons DESIS Lab
with Elisa Bertolotti and Andrea Mendoza
08/07/2013 \\\ 1 pm New York (US) | 10 pm Milano (Italy) | 2 pm Bogotà (Colombia)
Lara Penin, Co-founder, Parsons DESIS Lab
Assistant Professor of Transdisciplinary Design
Parsons The New School for Design
Lara Penin is an Assistant Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at the School of Design Strategies, Parsons The New School for Design. Coordinator of the Area of Study of Service Design, her work focuses on how service design can be applied to promote social innovation and sustainability.
Eduardo Staszowski, Director, Parsons DESIS Lab
Assistant Professor of Design Strategies
Parsons The New School for Design
Eduardo Staszowski is an Assistant Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Director of the Parsons DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) Research Lab, his current research focuses on the intersection of design, social innovation and public services.
Parsons DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) Lab is a research laboratory created in 2009 at The New School in New York City. Parsons DESIS Lab works at the intersection of strategic and service design, management, and social theory, applying interdisciplinary expertise in problem setting and problem solving to sustainable practices and social innovation. The lab develops externally funded research projects with local partners and promotes workshops, studios, toolkits, exhibitions, and publications that facilitates social change through design-based sustainable community initiatives.
Amplifying Creative Communities (2009-2011)
The project identifies communities around NYC who are innovating more sustainable ways of living and bring the service design approach in order to make them more robust. Parsons DESIS Lab project funded through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation Cultural Innovation Funds NYC 2009.