XXI Compasso d'Oro. Un lustro che rischia d'invecchiare

Emerge infatti un'idea di design italiano ancora legata al mondo dell'arredo: quattro su dieci sono oggetti che appartengono al cosiddetto ambito del furniture design e, tra questi, tre sono sedute; al contrario, manca completamente il mondo del design per il lavoro e per i servizi, un settore che si è fortemente sviluppato rivestendo un ruolo sempre maggiore nella nostra quotidianità; infine non è stato premiato nessun oggetto dell'elettronica di consumo, né la ricerca d'impresa né quella teorica, storica e critica

Sustainable and Collaborative Innovation for the Territory

Innovation as manifold energy that must incessantly redefine itself and daily infrastructures, respect the planet and produce social effects. The focus on the potentiality of territories based on the transformation of existing infrastructural, economic, human, cognitive and cultural resources, is the aim of contemporary innovation. This essay focuses on the collaborative role that different players of a territory must have in order to launch and pursue innovation processes with the goal of environmental sustainability

Design for Sustainable Healthcare in a European context. A comparative analysis of Sustainable Healthcare and Design strategies in three European case studies.

In recent years, interest in Sustainable Healthcare has grown globally: many environmental issues are attracting great interest because they also represent a high cost for National Health Services. Resource consumption and waste production have huge environmental and economic impacts, deeply affecting the costs of medical treatments. Much research in recent years has focused on education and policy strategies to face these issues, but Design research could play a key role to integrate them, acting upstream the production process. This study aims to provide an overview on different European approaches to Sustainable Healthcare and Design for Healthcare, defining potentials and limitations to their development. The developed methodology combines two different levels of analysis, including macro (region) and micro (hospital and wards) environmental issues. The analysis has been applied to three different European case studies (from Italy, Sweden and Denmark). This allowed to highlight pros and cons of current international scenarios in regards of Sustainable Healthcare and Design strategies and their implementation

The quality of relationships among people is an increasingly important value

The communities' wellness is shifting from purely economical evaluations, embracing socio-cultural sphere too. By setting the human issue at the centre of the project is possible to solve current needs of the society more effectively. Systemic Design methodology is innovating its own design process by focusing on humanities. In particular we propose a case study in which the complexity of socio-cultural relationships represents the plusvalue to increase the quality of exchanges among different communities. Our project is based on a network (both virtual and real) among people involved in urban events, aimed to enrich them by the improvement of their relationships pattern. This project demonstrates how the global diffusion of socialnetworking dynamics could represent an useful tool for the communication among communities. In this way it emerges how a virtuously use of global dynamics into a good project represents an augmented link with daily human habits

APPROCCIO SISTEMICO E GESTIONE MULTISCALA DEI DATI. 'Il caso studio ‘frigorifero'. / A SYSTEM APPROACH AND MULTISCALE DATA MANAGEMENT. A ‘refrigerator’ case study.

Numerose tecnologie digitali come l’Intenet of Things, l’Intelligenza Artificiale e il Ma-chine Learning potrebbero stravolgere il modo di concepire il processo progettuale, soprattutto quando impiegate per reperire informazioni indispensabili alla definizione del problema, individuare i requisiti e sostenere decisioni progettuali, tipiche della fase di pre-design. In questo saggio si riflette sulla complessità del progetto, sulla necessità di un approccio sistemico basato su metodi partecipativi e sull’utilizzo di prototipi co-me strumenti per sbloccare il potenziale, ancora ampiamente inesplorato, dell’utilizzo dei dati ai fini progettuali. In seguito a un esperimento condotto su un frigorifero, sono state inoltre tratte conclusioni su visioni future, aspetti metodologici di progettazione nell’ambito del design sistemico e sulla relazione tra dato e sostenibilità. Many digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Ma-chine Learning, could radically change the way of conceiving a design process, espe-cially when they are used to retrieve essential information to define a problem, identify the requirements and support design decisions, all of which are typical of the pre-de-sign phase. In this essay, we reflect on the complexity of designing, on the need for a systemic approach based on participatory methods and on the use of prototypes as tools to unlock the potential, albeit still largely untapped, use of data for design pur-poses. An experiment has been conducted on a refrigerator and conclusions have been drawn on future visions, methodological aspects in the field of systemic design and the relationship between data and sustainability

Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Sequences and Genealogies in between Architecture and Design for a Global History

Some among the early “classics” of history of project, such as Giedion or Pevsner, united architecture and design leaning towards anonymity and industrialism and eliminating the division between the two disci- plines. They were related with an ideological notion of style: the “Modern”. Afterwards other approaches suggested another use of sequences of objects in a larger continuum instead of the use of “style” notion (Kubler, Bloch and Foucault). Joining these different points of start together with the latest contribution (Margolin, 2015) the paper aims to explore the possibilities given by compiling timelines and sequences that mix different approaches in a larg- er vision of the project disciplines to obtain the web for a global history implementable and queryable at different levels and using a broader range of design studies. The goal is trying to outline and schematically show a continuous conversation throughout time and space, maintaining the specificities of historical research and an inclusive and broader sight on the flow of time. To instruct a reflection on this opportunity the paper will wonder on the possibilities to organize se- quences on specific or general topics using tools as the managing of data flows and their representations

Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Sequences and Genealogies in between Architecture and Design for a Global History

Some among the early “classics” of the history of projects, such as Giedion or Pevsner, united architecture and de- sign leaning towards anonymity and industrialism and eliminating the division between the two disciplines. They were related with an ideological notion of style: the “Mod- ern”. Afterwards other approaches suggested another use of sequences of objects in a larger continuum instead of the use of notions of “style” (Kubler, Bloch and Foucault). Joining these different starting points together with the latest contribution (Margolin, 2015) the paper aims to explore the possibilities given by compiling timelines and sequences that mix different approaches in a larger vision of project disciplines to obtain the web for a glob- al history, implementable and queryable at different levels and using a broader range of design studies. The goal is to outline and schematically show a continuous conversation throughout time and space, maintaining the speci cities of historical research and an inclusive and broader view on the ow of time. To inform a re ection on this opportunity the pa- per will consider the ways to organize sequences on speci c or general topics using tools for the managing of data ows and their representations