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Observatory

Design for Sustainability

Observatory

Design for Sustainability

Abstract

Sustainability is an integral and essential part of the project itself, where, through research and practice, it is possible to rethink products, services, and human systems. The sense of responsibility that accompanies design for sustainability guides the creation of innovative future scenarios and the management of complexity and urgent radical changes. This responsibility primarily concerns the inhabitants of the planet, both living and non-living, as designers and academics, we have systems that shape our world. Designing in a new way means partially relinquishing control, abandoning planning and execution methods, and working over time with systems that change, evolve, and integrate. It also means designing on multiple levels and considering side effects, offering suggestions and triggering rather than imposing, and allowing things to grow, mature, and consolidate rather than building and harnessing them.

KEYWORDS
radical change, complexity, system
SID CONTACT
Lucia Pietroni
Proponents
Silvia Barbero
POLITO
Eleonora Fiore
UNIPR
Rosanna Veneziano
UNICAMPANIA
Professors and Researchers
Laura Badalucco
IUAV
Vincenzo Paolo Bagnato
POLIBA
Massimo Bianchini
POLIMI
Chiara Battistoni
IUAV
Patrizia Bolzan
POLIMI
Anna Catania
UNIPA
Elena Mariele Elgani
POLIMI
Stefano Folesa
UNIFI
Daniele Galloppo
UNICAM
Daniele Galloppo
UNICAM
Silvia Maria Gramegna
POLIMI
Benedetto Inzerillo
UNIPA
Silvana Kuhtz
UNIBAS
Carla Langella
UNINA
Giuseppe Lotti
UNIFI
Sabrina Lucibello
SAPIENZA
Antonio Marano
UNICH
Marco Marseglia
UNIFI
Jacopo Mascitti
UNICAM
Maria Dolores Morelli
UNICAMPANIA
Alfonso Morone
UNINA
Veronica Pasini
UNIBO
Amina Pereno
POLITO
Silvia Pericu
UNIGE
Lucia Pietroni
UNICAM
Kuno Prey
UNIBZ
Chiara Lorenza Remondino
POLITO
Ernesto Ramon Rispoli
UNINA
Valentina Rognoli
POLIMI
Dario Russo
UNIPA
Laura Succini
UNIBO
Paolo Tamborrini
POLITO
Benedetta Terenzi
UNIPG
PhD Candidates and Research Fellows
Elena Albergati
POLIMI
Francesca Ambrogio
IUAV
Mariangela Balsamo
UNICAM
Edoardo Brunelli
UNIFI
Alessandro Campanella
POLITO
Giuliana Flavia Cangelosi
UNICAMPANIA
Francesco Cantini
UNIFI
Michela Carlomagno
UNICAMPANIA
Tommaso Celli
UNIFI
Augusto Fabio Cerqua
UNINA
Martina Corti
UNIFI
Alessandro Di Stefano
UNICAM
Sofia Soledad Duarte
POLIMI
Mattia Italia
POLIMI
Carmelo Leonardi
IUAV
Cristina Marino
UNIPR
Fabiana Marotta
UNINA
Alice Paracolli
POLIMI
Stefano Salzillo
UNICAMPANIA
Martina Spinelli
POLITO
Giovanna Tagliasco
UNIGE
Carmen Trischitta
UNIPA
Margherita Vacca
UNIFI

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