Enabling solutions
Social innovation, creative communities and strategic design. “If someone is hungry do not give them fish. Give them a fishing rod and teach them how to fish”. This ancient wisdom shows us, now more...
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Promising models for a sustainable development. The following notes are a draft for the discussion. They focalise a set of emerging signals that, in different fields of applications, indicate the...
View ArticleDesign for sustainability
How to design sustainable solutions The transition towards sustainability calls for a radical change, i.e. a systemic discontinuity. At a local scale, to promote this discontinuity means to generate...
View ArticleCreative communities, collaborative networks and distributed economies
Promising signals for a sustainable development. The paper introduces some promising cases of social innovation and discusses the possibility/opportunity of moving from them to conceive and develop...
View ArticleDesign, ethics and sustainability
Guidelines for a transition phase “Design is a creative activity whose aim is to establish the multi-faceted qualities of objects, processes, services and their systems in whole life-cycles” (ICSID...
View ArticleSlow+Design
Slow approach to distributed economy and sustainable sensoriality We organised with Slow Food Italy a one-day Slow+Design seminar on the “slow approach to distributed economy and sustainable...
View ArticleDesign research for sustainable social innovation
Over the past hundred years, even when driven by the most positive intentions, designers have been active promoters of the ideas of wellbeing and ways of living that we have recently and dramatically...
View ArticleDesigning networks and metadesign
Some introductory notes. In the present times, designers have to operate in a society in which, as contemporary sociology points out, “everybody designs”. In other words, they have to consider...
View ArticleSystems capable of evolving
Flexibility in the era of networks and sustainability. There are two interesting different interpretations of the term flexibility: flexibility as openness, that is, able to allow a variety of uses;...
View ArticleNew design knowledge
Introduction to the Conference Changing the Change Being a designer means being an optimist: given the problems, all the problems even the most difficult, all we can do is to presume there is a...
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