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In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold—an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations— making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.

Industrial design --- Sustainable design. --- 373.67 --- 316 --- Participatie --- 316.334.54 --- 72.037 --- Green design --- Design --- Social aspects. --- Onderzoek (design) --- Sociologie --- Bewonersparticipatie --- Eenentwintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- 21ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Ecoconception --- Aspect social --- 72 --- architectuurtheorie --- architectuur --- sociologie --- burgerparticipatie --- architectuur algemeen, architectuurtheorie, wonen --- innovaties --- vormgeving --- Social change --- sociale interventies --- design [discipline] --- 72.01 --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Sustainable design --- Social aspects --- Graphic arts --- graphic design --- graphic arts --- philosophy of art

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City planning --- Ecological engineering --- Sustainable architecture --- Sustainable buildings --- Sustainable development --- Urban ecology (Sociology)

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The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a life project. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold - an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. Manzini distinguishes between diffuse design (performed by everybody) and expert design (performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of collaboration. These range from community-supported agriculture in China to digital platforms for medical care in Canada; from interactive storytelling in India to collaborative housing in Milan. These cases illustrate how expert designers can support these collaborations - making their existence more probable, their practice easier, their diffusion and their convergence in larger projects more effective. Manzini draws the first comprehensive picture of design for social innovation: the most dynamic field of action for both expert and nonexpert designers in the coming decades.

Industrial design --- Sustainable design. --- Social aspects. --- Green design --- Design --- DESIGN/General --- DESIGN/Design Theory --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies

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Design for Environmental Sustainability is a technical and operative contribution to the United Nations "Decade on Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), aiding the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and able in the task of designing environmentally sustainable products. Design for Environmental Sustainability provides a comprehensive framework and a practical tool to support the design process. The book offers an organic vision of methodologies, tools and strategies for the integration of environmental requirements into product development. Possible strategies and design guidelines are highlighted, accompanied by a large selection of high-quality environmentally-aware product design case studies. Divided into four parts, the first part covers environmental sustainability and presents the general guidelines that can be followed to reach it. The second part examines the Life Cycle Design approach and the strategies to minimise consumption of resources, select low environmental impact resources, optimise product life span, extend the life of materials, and design for disassembly. The third part presents methods and tools to evaluate the environmental impact of products (e.g., Life Cycle Assessment) and other support tools for the integration of environmental requirements into real design processes. The fourth and final part describes the historical evolution of sustainability, both in design practice and research. Design for Environmental Sustainability is an important text for all students, designers and design engineers interested in product development processes.

Materials sciences --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Plant and equipment --- Production management --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- duurzaamheid --- industrie --- ontwerpen --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- machines --- vervuiling