Design for social innovation

An annual conference that connects students, professionals, and individuals from a variety of disciplines focusing on how the power of design, technology, and enterprise can reshape our communities and sustain our environment

When it comes to saving or improving our lives, certain inventions and ideas stand out

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

The Living Principles website is the place for designers, innovators and entrepreneurs to co-create, share and showcase best practices, tools, stories and ideas for enabling sustainable action across all design disciplines. The Living Principles for Design aim to guide purposeful action, celebrating and popularizing the efforts of those who use design thinking to create positive cultural change

Project H uses the power of the design process to catalyze communities and public education from within. They design WITH, not FOR. They document, share and measure. They start locally and scale globally. They design systems, not stuff They build results in simple and effective design solutions that empower communities and build collective creative capital

SIX is a global community of individuals and organisations committed to promoting social innovation and growing the capacity of the field. Their aim is to improve the methods (including design) with which our societies find better solutions to challenges such as ageing, climate change, inequality and healthcare

Interactive research techniques involving visual media are allowing designers to gain unprecedented insight into areas of social need says The Guardian

A not for profit social enterprise with a strong track record, built up over eight years, of supporting innovation in the third sector, education and children's services, and local government

In January 2009 Winterhouse Institute began a two-year project to develop collective action and collaboration for social impact across the design industry, and to monitor progress in the zone of design and innovation around social issues

An international team of researchers and ethnographers that bring together insights, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs