I’m very happy to say that a Design Research Initiative that influenced me very much during the development of my thesis has been selected among the finalist projects for the most important Italian Design Award.

EMUDE (Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions) was a programme of activities funded by the European Commission, the aim of [...]

Tags: Community, Design, Design Research, Italy, Locality, Participation, Social Innovation, Sustainability

During the last six months I have been honoured to work as the administrator of the website, newsletter and blog of the Changing the Change conference, which will be held in Turin on 10th-11th-12th of July 2008:
http://www.changingthechange.org
This conference will be an international social event dedicated to study how design (and especially design research) could help [...]

Tags: Design Research, Internet, Italy, Sustainability, University

A very short report from Sci(bzaar)net, one week later.
First of all, thanks to Gian for this opportunity offered me. Participating in the organization process (even if only online, building the event’s website) and at the event was an opportunity to learn a lot about how we can make room for an open dialogue between very [...]

Tags: Crowdfunding, Design Research, Institutions, Italy, Knowledge, Open Culture, Science, Technology, Web 2.0

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These Open Peer-to-Peer design steps should be considered more as guidelines than a complete methodology: we should apply them, test them, study them more (as in research as in practice).
And this is the right time to study [...]

Tags: Bottom of the Pyramid, Business/Service, Design Methodology, Design Research, Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Local Services