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

Another ladder of participation, but this time it is for Businesses based on Participation, and comes from Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation).

Consumption: Consumer -> cash -> company’s products/services made entirely by company
Self Service: Consumer -> choice -> cash -> company’s products/services made entirely by company
DIY Do it yourself: Consumer -> degree of involvement in the [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Participation

People Make Places

People Make Places, Melissa Mean, Charlie Tims, Demos, London (2005), (pdf file, in english)

Based on in-depth studies of three British towns and cities Cardiff, Preston and Swindon, People Make Places explores how the best public spaces are created by people and communities themselves. The book sets out the forms of governance, design principles [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, City, City Planning, Co-Creation, Community, Emergence, Institutions, Local Services, Locality, Participation, Self-Organization, UK

On a previous post, I wrote that participation in an Open Peer-to-Peer Community could be either bottom-up or top-down.
Last week, while I was preparing the slideshow for another lesson I gave at Politecnico di Milano, I thought that maybe we could notice a third type of participation, that lies between top-down and bottom-up forms of [...]

Tags: Open P2P Communities, Participation

To design for/with a community means participation, and Open Peer-to-Peer dynamics represent a very strong form of participation, an active one, where the people produces and shares knowledge in order to solve a problem. An Open Peer-to-Peer kind of participation is a recent phenomenon, so it could be very interesting to take a look at [...]

Tags: Design Methodology, Participation

Here is the presentation for the lesson I gave yesterday at Politecnico di Milano, Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale Paesaggi in Corsa (P1 - I1).

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design, Locality, Participation, University

Participation matrix of the different phases of the design process

« Intro.01 « Intro.02 « Intro.03 « Intro.04 « Intro.05 « Intro.06 « Intro.07
« Intro.08 « Intro.09
Unlike a traditional, linear, design process, Open Peer-to-Peer Design is non-linear and characterized by multiple parallell processes because of the large number of agents and their interactions. An Open Peer-to-Peer [...]

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Open P2P Communities, Participation, Platform, Self-Organization, Service Design, Social Network Analysis