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"This book focuses on ""massive codesign"": the idea that multiple and/or numerous participants having different voices collaborate in a design process broken down into different steps and formats and resulting in a relevant and diversified amount of data. Services, strategies and scenarios are presented as the main field of application: these are complex items that demand complex processes be tackled, processes in which it is necessary to involve a variety of players who are largely interdependent and therefore who must collaborate in order to achieve any goal.The book essentially makes two main contributions: a ""Collaborative Design Framework"" to identify and structure codesign activities, methods and tools within massive creative processes; a ""set of quick lessons learnt"" to provide guidance to the conception and organisation of other massive creative processes.The whole book is oriented at practice: it discusses codesign activities from the designer's point of view, detailing issues such as process from beginning to end, activity flow, manipulability of tools, roles and rules for participants and many others. It is intended as a support for designers dealing in massive codesign processes and aims towards improved results."

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The concepts and applications of ergonomics are constantly discussed in the academic field, featuring a corpus of knowledge of great expressiveness for ergonomic science itself and other related technological areas, namely: engineering, design, architecture, and others. Among the demands to expand the analysis around this discipline is its historical evolution, which is full of controversies and discussions. In fact, there is still a great difficulty in reporting its historical stages within the geographical scope and the participation of its precursors in these phases. Thus, the purpose of this collection was to bring together the studies carried out by students in the ergonomics research line, associated with the Laboratory of Ergonomics and Interfaces - LEI, in the Postgraduate Program in Design - PPGDesign, of the Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication from Universidade Estadual Paulista, and present subsidies to expand the discussion and evolutionary reflection of ergonomics. The first chapters describe the precursors of ergonomics, with emphasis on Leonardo da Vinci and his studies in the field of anatomy; Bélidor, Patissier and their contributions to the organization of work; Taylorism and aspects of the scientific organization of work, as well as Jules Amar's contribution in this context. The remaining chapters address the origin and evolution of ergonomics in Europe, Russia (formerly the USSR), the United States of America, Latin America and Brazil, with an emphasis on the creation of laboratories and non-governmental associations. In general, the studies presented here fill gaps that still exist within ergonomics and seek to establish a link for the future continuity of research in the area.

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Design for the New World aims to introduce a new paradigm in design and design thinking, by shifting our approach from a human perspective that is primarily focused on human scales, needs, and desires, to a planet perspective, in which design is guided by the ambition to create a balanced coexistence between humans and the other species that make up the global ecosystem. The book intervenes in current discussions within design research about what role design can play in the sustainable transition, by offering new methods and mindset to handle the giant-scale complexity of the climate and environmental crisis, as well as specific tools to turn these theoretical reflections into a transformative practice. Essential reading for researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of design, innovation, development, entrepreneurship, leadership, art, and creativity. The book is structured so that it can be easily used in an educational context, both at under- and postgraduate level and in courses of business, innovation, or management training. The practical suggestions and process-management tools can be used to facilitate sustainable transformations in in commercial businesses, organizations, and political networks. Written in an accessible and clear style, where all technical terms are fully introduced and unpacked. The chapters can be read in order or independently, and the practical tools for facilitating processes of change are supplemented with additional questions for reflection and further development.

Sustainable design. --- Green design --- Design

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This book aims at encompassing the panorama of design tools being developed, tested and adopted by researchers and professors at the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. The tools are organized in a taxonomy that reflects the path of choice of a possible user in need for the right tool for a task to be performed. The taxonomy is based on a formalization of the design process proposed by the authors, which characterizes the Design System at Politecnico di Milano. The book essentially offers two main contributions: an original taxonomy that guides towards the organization of design tools and their usage with different actors; a representative collection of design tools developed within the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano with specific instructions on how to use them. Design Tools is addressed both to practitioners and academics in the field of design that are interested in getting to know more about the discourse around design tools in general and in particular how this discourse takes a shape within Politecnico di Milano and resolves in usable and shareable tools.

design tools, taxonomy, design process, design system

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This reprint contains a Special Issue of the MDPI journal Machines on Italian advances in mechanism and machines science through a collection of selected papers from the Fourth International Conference of IFToMM Italy, IFIT 2022. The included papers belong to a broad range of disciplines in MMS, with research and design results that can be of interest not only to scholars in the field of MMS and mechanical engineering but also to professionals and even students, broadening their understanding of the problems and solutions under development, mainly, but not only, from the Italian community.

Machine design. --- Machinery --- Engineering design --- Design --- Design and construction