Promising signals for a sustainable development.

The paper introduces some promising cases of social innovation and discusses the possibility/opportunity of moving from them to conceive and develop sustainable enabling solutions.

In particular, it focalises two clusters of cases (the creative communities and the collaborative networks) that permit to build a new and practicable vision of a sustainable future: the multi-local society. A vision that should have the capability to catalyze the action of different social actors in a sustainable direction……..

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How to design sustainable solutions

The transition towards sustainability calls for a radical change, i.e. a systemic discontinuity. At a local scale, to promote this discontinuity means to generate low material intensive and highly context-related socio-technical systems. In this framework the role of design is to promote this discontinuity and to conceive and develop these system.

The paper articulates the above statement, outlines the related design problems and, in particular, discusses what it means to conceive, produce and deliver sustainable solutions……

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