8.11.07 Lez.Lab Sint Scenario Manzini

1. the multi-local society . a design orienting scenario Ezio Manzini DIS-INDACO, Politecnico di Milano

2. sustainability .

6. working hypothesis .

8. working hypothesis ( 2 ) designers (and design researchers) may play a relevant role conceiving and promoting of scenarios of sustainable ways of living and solution based on local system changes).

11. scenario building .

12. innovation streams .

16. valorization of local typical products . the production of high quality highly localized products as craft goods, food and music; the success of the Slow Food Association; …

17. advanced local systems of production-consumption . local use of local resources; local food networks and reduced food-miles; direct links between producers and consumers; ….

18. cosmopolitan localism a balance between being localised (rooted in a place and in the community related to that place) and open (to global flows of ideas, information, people, things and money).

20. distributed computing and distribute generation . connected computers and connected local energy systems (co-generation and renewable energies plants) as a new possible infrastructure …

21. localization of global product-systems . point of sale/use production : to produce only what is needed, when is needed and where is needed; …

22. distributed systems production systems organized as networks of small scale, flexible, highly context-related units. ( Distributed Economies Laboratories )

24. end-users applications as blogs, podcast, wikis, social networking websites, search engines, auction websites and peer-to-peer services . considered as a whole these applications are called social computing or web 2.0 ,

25. building a new common knowledge . Wikipedia : in few year the largest world-wide encyclopedia edited by a multiplicity of distributed authors

26. developing large projects . Linux: thousand of users collaborate to the contents astronomic research : a high number of experts and/or of dedicated amateurs are involved in complex projects

27. organizing local initiatives . MeetUp and SmartMobs : platforms to get a critical mass in order to start a new common initiative BBC Action Network : people with a specific interest are enabled to find out and to meet who, in the same neighborhood, has the same interest.

28. collaborative networks . large scale, highly distributed systems which combine many players to carry out complex tasks without requiring burdensome, top-down hierarchical organization ( RED , Design Council, UK)

30. individuals and communities who auto-organize for …

32. Italia, Milano Il Filo di Paglia: una spesa consapevole

33. Belgio, Bruxelles GAC Comité Cité, Groupe d’achat commun

34. Living consumption co-op . Collective Purchase Centre - Taiwan

35. Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Rede Ecologica

38. Ahmedabad, India. Local farmers festival

40. Milan_Urban garden…

41. Sao Paolo_Community vegetable garden…

43. local production , eg . in community-based agriculture small organic farmers can survive

44. urban people linked with groups of farmers, for products and help

46. neighborhoods with different skills and capabilities who exchange mutual help 拥有各种不同技能和才能的邻居间相互帮助，互通有无

47. 广州，社区互助活动… Zhuangzhou, Community mutual-aid activity…

49. Eindhoven_elderly community …

50. Krakov_Self Help Community

51. Tianjin, Wenxinshe, old age association in Fengjingya

53. Carpooling - Hitchhike solidarity network …

54. 拼车上下班 ... PinChe…

56. MeetUp , SmartMobs, BBC Action Network : platforms to get a critical mass in order to start a new common initiative; : people with a specific interest are enabled to find out and to meet who, in the same neighborhood, has the same interest.

57. Moving Population Example Lack of Friends Budget Limitation “ 愛拼才會 赢 ” “ Pinker is a Lifestyle” Web Platform/Forum

60. creative communities . groups of people who organize themselves to solve a problem and/or to open a new possibility ( EMUDE-Creative Communities , European Research)

61. which kind of vision does it emerge from the convergence of these four innovation streams ?

64. new sense of place . there is an horizontal integration of a multiplicity of places/communities . a society where “the local” is not local !

65. distributed economy local activities organized as small units synergistically connected with each other. a society where “the small” is not small !

66. active well-being people give an active contribution to the well-being production . a society where the well-being is “produced” (more than consumed) !

67. designing networks creativity and design capapbilites are diffused; everybody designs . a society as a mesh of designing networks !

70. traditional highly localized society De-localized global society the ‘Leapfrog’ hypothesis the shift towards an advanced multi-local society in the not-yet (fully) industrialized societies advanced multi-local society 1 2 3

71. design implications .

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