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Ezio Manzini: design per l’innovazione sociale.
Full text linkEzio Manzini è uno dei maggiori studiosi italiani e mondiali di design per la sostenibilità, campo nel quale lavora da più di 20 anni. È fondatore di DESIS, un network internazionale su design per l’innovazione sociale e per la sostenibilità. È Honorary Professor al Politecnico di Milano, Chair Professor alla University of the Arts London e attualmente è Guest Professor alla Tongji University – Shanghai e alla Jiangnan University – Wuxi. Il suo ultimo libro è Design, When Everybody Designs. An Introductin to Design for Social Innovation (MIT 2015)
Partiamo dalla domanda più ovvia: di cosa parla questo libro?
La considerazione di partenza è che, in un mondo in rapida e profonda trasformazione, tutti progettano. Dove “tutti” significa le singole persone, i gruppi, le comunità, le imprese le associazioni, ma anche le istituzioni, le città e intere regioni. E “progettano” significa che tutti questi soggetti individuali e collettivi, volenti o nolenti, sono spinti a mettere in campo delle capacità progettuali per definire e realizzare le loro strategie di vita
SERVICE MAKERS City dwellers and designers creating a Local Distribution System
Full text linkIn this paper we are seeking to draw a parallel between the self-production of objects - making (Micelli, 2011) - and the self-production of services, as in collaborative services.
Both processes result from a renewed activism on the part of users, which we find in Creative Communities (Meroni, 2007). We will briefly describe the urban context in which this kind of “active” citizenship has matured, both in the design and in the development of goods and services, with reference to scenarios of Sharing Economy and Collaborative Consumption (Botsman and Rogers, 2011).
We particularly wish to highlight how the collaborative services brought into being by ordinary people constitute a form of service making, with a truly semi-entrepreneurial impact on the city and surrounding area. One significant example is the Local Distribution System created within the research project “Feeding Milan. Energy for change”, a strategic design project for place development (Meroni, 2011) aiming at creating a network of services to connect farmers in the peri-urban area directly to consumers in the town.
The role of designers in this activity is still being defined, but it is increasingly moving towards that of facilitator and community coach (Cantù et al., forthcoming 2012), a figure participating in both the co-production and the development of the service. The exit strategy for designers from these processes and the possible future of services born in such contexts remains an open question. We particularly wonder whether it would be possible to foster a pre-incubation activity that could transform informal collaborative services into actual social enterprise start ups.
We are therefore seeking to prefigure potential evolutions of service making, among which the possibility of creating support structures for these activities. To continue our initial parallel, these could take the form of Fablabs for city services, better defined as “Urban Collaborative Service Districts”
Hacking Public Services: come riprogettare i servizi pubblici, con i cittadini.
No full textStoria di un think-tank inedito di ricercatori e studenti per ri-progettare i servizi pubblici milanesi. Nel mese di giugno 2015, una classe internazionale della Scuola di Design del Politecnico di Milano si è messa al servizio della città di Milano in un laboratorio sperimentale denominato “Hacking public services”*. L’obiettivo dichiarato era provare a ri-immaginare i servizi pubblici utilizzando metodi e strumenti del design dei servizi. In un certo senso è stato creato un ”think-tank temporaneo” di studenti e ricercatori, che, nel corso della sperimentazione, ha coinvolto altri soggetti, sia “dal basso” (i cittadini), sia “dall’alto” (gli amministratori pubblici)
Design school as incubators of social entrepreneurship
No full textThis paper aims to reflect on the intersection of design education, research and social enterprise incubation within a design studio run as part of the Master in Product Service System Design at the Politecnico di Milano, School of Design. Entitled "Accidental Grocers", it aimed to explore the potentialities of service design applied to “Local Distribution Systems” to provide the city with local food. Students were requested to rethink the way we do food shopping and to propose services based on collaboration, making use of existing assets, and creating unusual connections between profit and not-for-profit, amateur and professional, market and society. Following previous experiences, the studio was related to an on-going action research project to create short chain food services. The experimentation field was a district of Milan, where students were encouraged to establish direct connections with citizens. The most distinguishing feature of this studio was to simulate the conditions for incubation in an existing context, by testing potentially viable services. So the studio gradually led students to create ready-to-use solutions for the next step of forming start ups in the protected environment offered by research, within the framework of social innovation
Interviewed: Ezio Manzini on Design When Everybody Designs.
No full textEzio Manzini, a leading thinker in design for sustainability, founded DESIS an international network on design for social innovation and sustainability. He is Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Chair Professor at University of the Arts London, and currently guest Professor at Tongji University, Shanghai, and Jiangnan University, Wuxi. His lastest book is Design, When Everybody Designs (MIT 2015).
We'll start with the most obvious question: What is your new book about?
Our starting point is that, in a fast and profoundly changing world, everybody designs. "Everybody" means not only individual people, groups, communities, companies, and associations, but also institutions, cities, and entire regions; and "design" means that, whether they like it or not, all these individual and collective entities are forced to bring all their designing capabilities into play to devise their life strategies and put them into practice.
The result of this diffuse designing is that society as a whole can be seen as a huge laboratory in which unprecedented social forms, solutions and meanings are produced and social innovation is created
The experience of Creative Citizens
No full textCreative Citizens (www.cittadinicreativi.it) is an experiment underway in Milan within a community of residents located in a particular neighbourhood (Zone 4). This applied-research activity has set up a local centre in a farmhouse, the Cascina Cuccagna, to act as a public office for service design and to connect ordinary citizens with designers, stakeholders and institutions
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