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Published in DSI4EU

·Jun 22, 2019

Innovation and the paradox of for-profit care

by Zoe Romano (versione italiana sotto) During an international seminar where experts from different backgrounds illustrated perspectives on how to measure impact beyond financial indicators, one of the speakers used an Italian phenomenon to explain what he thought could represent social innovation. According to statistics, more than 11% of Italy’s…

Digital Social Innovation

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Innovation and the paradox of for-profit care
Innovation and the paradox of for-profit care
Digital Social Innovation

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Published in DSI4EU

·Jun 14, 2019

Bureaucracy has never been so alive: body, politics and molecules

by Maddalena Fragnito. Versione italiana sotto. The biopolitical history of hormones is longer than one might expect. As early as the end of the 19th century, serums made of animal hormones were used to treat males who were considered too “feminist” (1) and females seen as too ‘masculine’. …

Estrogen

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Bureaucracy has never been so alive: body, politics and molecules
Bureaucracy has never been so alive: body, politics and molecules
Estrogen

23 min read


Published in DSI4EU

·Jun 8, 2019

3 steps to release Open Source Medical Devices — A visual guide for makers

We are very happy to share the infographic “Open Source Medical Devices — a visual guide for makers”. The guide has been developed during the last few months within the DSI4EU project, funded by EU Commission. …

Medical Devices

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3 steps to release Open Source Medical Devices — A visual guide for makers
3 steps to release Open Source Medical Devices — A visual guide for makers
Medical Devices

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Published in DSI4EU

·Jun 3, 2019

Caring for the Carers

by Valeria Graziano (versione italiano sotto) The last century has accustomed us to consider care and technology as two opposing concepts. We are told that care is about affectivity and empathy, while technology is cold and rational. And yet, as Annemarie Mol explains, all care practices use technological tools (1)…

Medium Italia

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Caring for the Carers
Caring for the Carers
Medium Italia

23 min read


Published in DSI4EU

·Apr 29, 2019

Co-design as competitive advantage

by Serena Cangiano (versione italiano sotto) When designing a technological object, one method is to actively involve people, the so-called end-users, in the process. Since the seventies, this method helped anticipate the negative impact of technology over our individual and collective lives. In a sector dominated by techno-solutionist (1) approaches…

Medium Italia

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Co-design as competitive advantage
Co-design as competitive advantage
Medium Italia

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Published in DSI4EU

·Jan 30, 2019

Fostering inclusion is the only way to radical innovation

by Zoe Romano (Versione italiana sotto) Makerspaces and fablabs were mostly conceived with the aim to put technology in the hands of citizens, and to use these environments as platforms to develop creative and critical thinking. Lowering the barriers to digital fabrication tools, like 3D printers, laser cutters and open…

Makers

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Fostering inclusion is the only way to radical innovation
Fostering inclusion is the only way to radical innovation
Makers

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Published in DSI4EU

·Oct 5, 2018

Pirate Care - How do we imagine the health care for the future we want?

by Valeria Graziano (versione italiano sotto) by Valeria Graziano (WeMake) with the contribution of Serena Cangiano, Maddalena Fragnito andZoe Romano. WeMake is the cluster lead for Health and Care in the Horizon 2020-funded DSI4EU project. A recent trend to reimagine the systems of care for the future is based on…

Ethics

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Pirate Care - How do we imagine the health care for the future we want?
Pirate Care - How do we imagine the health care for the future we want?
Ethics

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Published in DSI4EU

·May 26, 2018

Alternative care and health histories: some case studies to help us imagine the future

by Valeria Graziano (versione italiano sotto) The movement for Digital Social Innovation (DSI) insists on the need for a long memory to not take anything unexpected as “innovative” just because there is no awareness of what has happened before or elsewhere. …

Social Innovation

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Alternative care and health histories: some case studies to help us imagine the future
Alternative care and health histories: some case studies to help us imagine the future
Social Innovation

15 min read


Published in DSI4EU

·Mar 14, 2018

What is (not) digital social innovation?

by Valeria Graziano (versione italiano sotto) Over the last ten years, a growing international movement of practitioners, policy makers, activists and researchers has been coming together to propose a concrete and radically different vision for how technologies could help shape our common future. These people believe that technology should contribute…

Innovation

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What is (not) digital social innovation?
What is (not) digital social innovation?
Innovation

12 min read

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