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Professioni: incontro con Studio Azzurro. Video-installazioni trasversali. Il laboratorio di ricerca artistica e video presente nei colophon delle principali mostre e fiere
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A situated analysis of research publication evaluation in Latin countries based on a pluriversal approach
Full text linkThe global knowledge ecosystem is affected by ethnocentrism and witnesses Western monopolies of knowledge that have built hegemonic structures and narratives, especially in scientific and academic publishing. For the design field, the paper proposes a transition from processes of power and control over knowledge to processes of distributed knowledge leadership among the stakeholders of the publishing system (journals, conferences, scientific associations and societies, academic networks). It analyses the publishing ecosystem of Latin American countries as a case study representative of Global South knowledge that is ‘decentring’ scientific design publishing. By problematizing pluriversity, it proposes a practical frameworkon international collaboration, informed evaluation, and distributed processes to promote equity and accessibility. The 8th International Forum of Design as a Process serves as a testbed, showcasing community-led knowledge experimentation targeting the Global South countries. The case study highlights the potential to re-evaluate established structures for more pluriversal design knowledge
Quando il Design incontra il futuro / When Design Shapes Future
No full textThe only time in which we can act is the future; the consciousness of the centrality
of futures’ study within our discipline has been slow to grow in a scientific and systematic
manner. The current strength of the international scientific debate about
the study of the future, and Anticipation Studies in particular, allows us to meet this
important area of concern with many other disciplines involved in the dimension of
time yet to come. Sociology, psychology, anthropology, technology, economy, art,
can become sources of practices and useful tools to improve the awareness and investigation
on possible futures, for their construction and their narration.
This document presents a series of reasoning related to the future that we have
named Advanced Design approach. This specific field of study is developed around
four main thematic strands: the projection into the far future (long-term), typical of
some complex areas such as the automotive sector; the very eccentric and distant
spatial or sectorial speculation, that we call extreme design; the contribution of design
to continuous innovation processes that neglects the actual speed of need for innovation;
and finally the problem finding or the idea that evermore frequently - in
the lack of a clear demanding system capable of guiding and filtering the design
work - the project brief is generated without client by the designer him-herself.
Within the modifications of the value chain, inside a turbulent and indefinable field
as that formed by the contemporary markets and the social changes taking place,
here is the Advance Design that, contextualized in the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation
(FFEI), represents the contribution that design cultures can develop to renew
confidence in the resolute production of design activity
Supportare la biodiversita culturale della conoscenza, ricerca e pubblicazione in design
No full textL'ecosistema globale della conoscenza del design è influenzato da narrazioni egemoniche ed etnocentriche. Il sistema della pubblicazione scientifica riflette disparità geografiche nel campo del design, favorendo una rappresentazione eurocentrica/nordica a discapito dei "margini" e delle "periferie" emergenti. Il percorso di ricerca in corso parte da una collaborazione interuniversitaria formalizzatasi in un gruppo di ricerca nazionale all’interno della SID - Società italiana del design. Tale gruppo propone modelli di leadership più inclusivi per le pubblicazioni di design, promuovendo una visione pluriversa e multipolare della geopolitica della conoscenza. Il focus è sulla biodiversità delle "culture" del design e su nuove modalità interdisciplinari di pubblicazione, superando rigidità tra scienze dure e morbide. L'obiettivo è incentivare scambi di conoscenza tra attori del sistema, riconsiderare i paradigmi dell'impatto e dell'eccellenza delle pubblicazioni e immaginare nuovi flussi di lavoro e fruizione della produzione scientifica. Gli impatti attesi riguardano l'inclusione sociale, la dimensione culturale e lo sviluppo di linee guida per modelli editoriali innovativi
Future-Centred Design Education. Projects and Perspectives for Future Challenges
No full textThe essay introduces the results of the second edition of the research project FutureDesignEd "Innovation in Design Education - Innovation in Education by Design" (2020), focusing on the topic of Future-Centred Design Education
Embedding Responsible Research Innovation in Sustainable Forms of Production Through Co-design
No full textPurpose and Methodology
The acceleration in the redefinition of economies, the change in demographic structures and needs,
the spread of new technologies and communication channels act in different ways, but converge in
their effects on all the European and global territories, raising up diffuse concerns about loss of
interest in social challenges by Research and Innovation Systems (RIS). At the same time, these
phenomena lead to the exclusion of vulnerable groups from specific societal benefits and decision
processes (OECD, 2018), together with restrictions in knowledge sharing among different territorial
actors, with an unequal distribution of resources and data (i.e. between SMEs and corporations)
(Robinson, 2015).
To tackle these issues, this paper purposes a new open approach, starting from a Responsible
Research and Innovation (RRI) -filtered re-definition of “territory” in terms of territorial capital (Villari,
2018). The methological framework is based on a co-design system of practices (action-research
projects) (Zamenopoulos, 2018), aimed at deconstructing the current binary modalities of
collaboration among Quadruple Helix (4H) stakeholders, boosting horizontality, agility and
interaction.
Originality and Value - The evolution of the participatory approach
In recent years there has been an evolution of collaborative and participatory methods due to the
intensification of citizen and stakeholders involvement, posing new challenges in terms of tools (Alter
et al., 2019), skills, approaches, organization, and governance dynamics (Turnheim and Sovacool,
2019) and epistemologies (Hansson et al., 2018).
ADU’s investigation – on the different roles of design cultures in transformative processes of cities,
industries, and complex systems – is focused on the mapping of tools and approaches capable to
support spontaneous, unexpected, progressive, or sudden, predetermined or contingent mutations
linked to society.
The COVID19 emergency has highlighted how unpredictable the evolution of these phenomena is.
The drive for innovation has been unexpected and declined in various forms, ranging from self-
managed to collective and institutional innovation, aimed at producing quick and effective responses
(Palanica and Fossat, 2020).
ADU’s approach investigates new ways to re-interpret relationships, increasing resilience to
emergencies, and enabling co-design as a practice for exploiting tacit knowledge as a driver of
innovation.
The RRI perspective and the quadruple helix approach
The methodology, based on an iterative process, starts from the mapping of the different approaches
in the “collaborative practices” already in use by the different actors of the quadruple helix, to
increase an evidence-based understanding of co-design role in the different fields of application:
- PAs and institutions work with participatory planning methodologies, involving communities and
citizens to improve their services, empowering them as actors of change;
- Communities conduct civic activism initiatives aiming to improve the relationship with the urban
context, adopting co-design as a mechanism for the democratization of society and knowledge;
- Companies adopt design tools at the management level to hypothesize new business scenarios;
- Academic & research participate in co-design processes by creating research practices to express
and listen to the different traditions of knowledge.
By deconstructing this verticality, ADU is prototyping a set of tools and practices (personalized,
generative and adaptive), integrated in a horizontally co-design RRI-oriented approach (Blok, 2015),
to be adopted by the quadruple helix actors. This approach could represent key access to a more
responsible and collaborative RIS, including feedback loops and external linkages. The adoption of
continuous and iterative prototypes are oriented to engage SMEs, researchers and civil society in
the co-designing of more RRI-oriented production (Pavie et al., 2014), to new forms of
communication and collaboration, new services and products and patterns more suited to both user
and territorial needs. The co-design approach intends to support a transition:
• from linear to responsible iterative innovation,
• from closed innovation to responsible open innovation,
• from a low degree of citizens participation to research coalitions.
Co-design is considered a common grammar in projects’ development as a generative instrument to
shift towards a sustainable and community-centered innovation (Villari, 2019). Creating tools and
experiences and tailored solutions, territorial value chains will consider co-design as a core
innovation asset, being able to use it autonomously and sustainably in the long run, interacting with
their own communities (Unioncamere, Symbola, 2018).
Results and findings
Several past and ongoing projects contributed to suggest the general approach proposed in this
article; hereafter three of them are briefly reported:
C.R.I.C.C. The University of Bologna Research Center for Interaction with the Creative and Cultural
Industries aims to strengthen the regional production system by focusing on the design-driven
integration between technology, applied research, and culture. CRICC is involving the main Open
Laboratories of the Emilia-Romagna region, to test and validate practices based on co-design
activities for creative collaboration between citizens, associations, businesses, research centers,
institutions.
SUPERCRAFT. co-design practices and procurement dynamics in B2B contexts are strictly related;
we found that collaboration methodologies are affected by stakeholders' dimensions and goals,
product requirements and channel. The project, aimed at the conception and prototyping of a new
digital platform to support stakeholders collaboration among manufacturing SMEs, in the context of
tech-driven innovations, is bringing out the need for a co-design methodology based on multiple
factors such as the typology of innovation source or stakeholders combination, underlining the non-
applicability of rigid and universal processes.
DESIGN FOR CULTURAL COMPLEX HERITAGE. The research project aims to highlight
collaborative design practices that are influenced by the local territorial culture and reinterpreted
through the concepts of responsible innovation. Mapping projects and approaches that have been
able to activate a change of relationship between the territorial actors, the intention is to create an
observatory of "Good design culture" and collaborative approaches (in Latin America and Italy), for
the development of new innovations and enhancement in a responsible and inclusive territorial
productive culture perspective.
Limitations and implications
The adoption of an action-research approach is mainly addressed to transform specific initiatives
and tailored or experimental projects in practices, to be codified in an iterative process, with
recognizable phases, tools and findings. These new codes foresee the integration of co-design
methodology in territorial productive dynamics to facilitate the adoption of an RRI approach in the
context of a redefinition of RIS, improving interactivity, openness and inclusiveness
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