Another eventful season

Summer is officially over, but the innovation & design season is already warming up. commonground will be busy following some of the many events across Europe and in the States scoping the market and mapping opportunities.

commonground is planning for the next exciting projects in London and Lisbon but also observing with curiosity what is going on across the world. We like to think glocally, be connected globally but acting locally. We develop grassroots relationships with small and medium socially minded organisations to design better services, that is the way we deliver innovation and design around the real needs of people and planet.



Here is a list of the upcoming events, some of which we will be directly involved with. It is not an exhaustive list of the interesting events happening in the following few months so please feel free to add links as comments in response to this post (here on the right hand side) or on our facebook page. See you there, or there, or there!

- ITA social enterprise LAB, IX workshop on Social Innovation,
15-16th September 2011 Riva Del Garda, Italy | organised by the Iris Network and The Hub Rovereto.

- London Design Festival 2011,
17-25th September 2011 London, UK

- Service Design Drinks Lisboa,
22nd September 2011 Lisbon Airport! Portugal

- Naples 2.0, international Social Innovation conference,
21-23rd September 2011 Naples, Italy | organised by the Euclid Network

- TEDx Madrid, Design for the Social,
24th September 2011 Madrid, Spain

- experimentadesign biennale, useless
28th September - 27 November 2011 Lisboa, Portugal

- TEDx Edges Lisboa,
1st October 2011 Champlimaud Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

- Service Design Global Conference,
20-21st October 2011 San Francisco, California | organised by SDN

- Design Business Conference 2011,
17-18th November 2011 Barcelona, Spain


Many more to be added, many others to be attended. Have a good networking season,
the commonground team.