The document discusses the author's research on creative communities for sustainable lifestyles and collaborative services on digital platforms. The author is a PhD candidate studying at Politecnico di Milano under Professor Ezio Manzini. His research unit, Design and Innovation for Sustainability, focuses on designing sustainable product-service system innovations. The author has worked on several projects involving social innovation and sustainability, including collaborative services that could be enabled by digital platforms.
2. Table of contents
• IntroducGon
– Me
– My research unit
– Our research network
• Our research
– Design for social innovaGon and sustainability
– Projects
• My research
– CollaboraGve services on the digital plaLorm
– Case studies
– Current work in Dalhousie
5. Research topics
DIS leader > Ezio Manzini
Strategic Design
leader: Anna Meroni
Design and system innova%on for sustainability
leader: Carlo Vezzoli
Mobility systems
leader: Roberto Maja
E‐learning and Didac%cal Innova%on
leader: Alberto Colorni
Planning and urban design for sustainability
leader: Cesare Blasi
7. Table of contents
• IntroducGon
– Me
– My research unit
– Our network
• Our research
– Design for social innovaGon and sustainability
– Projects
• My research
– CollaboraGve services on the digital plaLorm
– Case studies
– Current work in Dalhousie
15. 1. EMUDE (2004‐6)
case collection of creative
communities
scenarios of product-
service system innovation
16. 1. EMUDE (2004‐6)
case collection of creative
roadmaps for future communities
research, policy agenda,
dissemination of the
results
scenarios of product-
service system innovation
18. Collabora%ve services
more collaborative
Enabling, active
P2P file sharing Cohousing
Wikipedia Neighborhood car sharing
less relational more relational
Predictable, Unpredictable,
controlled, codified open, not codified
School bus Community-based tourism
Guided tour Restaurant that you often go in
town
less collaborative
Disabling, passive
Positioning of collaborative service in service matrix model (Cipolla, Manzini 2009)
19. Collabora%ve services
more collaborative
Enabling, active
RelaGonal and
P2P file sharing Cohousing
Wikipedia
collaboraGve
Neighborhood car sharing
services
less relational more relational
Predictable, Unpredictable,
controlled, codified open, not codified
School bus Community-based tourism
Guided tour Restaurant that you often go in
town
less collaborative
Disabling, passive
Positioning of collaborative service in service matrix model (Cipolla, Manzini 2009)
21. 2. Feed Milan (Nutrire Milano) Project
Parco Sud Milano
Partner:
Slow Food
DIS-Indaco Politecnico
Scienze Gastronomiche
Ente Parco Sud
Fondazione Cariplo
EXPO’ 2015
29. Xianqiao village
3. Xianqiao Eco-village
Project in Chong Ming
island
Tongji University
Politecnico di Milano
DESIS-China Network
Shanghai City Studio TAO
China-US Center for
Sustainable Development
30. project
To revitalize a rural village,
improving the quality of life of
both, farmers and citizens.
The proximity between farms and
the city can be turned in an
advantage considering its
potentiality in terms of “zero-
miles” food and tourism.
Chong Ming Island
31. local projects
Organic food
Home restaurant
Twin schools project
Home restaurant
Traditional medicine
Village businesses
social
Chong Ming Island innovation
initiatives
32. organic food
local project 1
Xianqiao Village (China)
34. framework project
involvement
Community involvement Designers involvement
co-design processes ideas and communication
35. Table of contents
• IntroducGon
– Me
– My research unit
– Our network
• Our research
– Design for social innovaGon and sustainability
– Projects
• My research
– IntroducGon
– CollaboraGve services on the digital plaLorm
– Case studies
– Current work in Dalhousie
40. Case studies
• Aim: To idenGfy the use of ICT in collaboraGve services and
their impact on the social networks of communiGes
• Partner: Fondazione Culturale Responsabilita’ EGca
• Period: 2008 November ~ 2009 July
• Methods: Contents analysis of websites, interview (on and
offline)
• 28 cases out of 100+ candidates
41. Criteria for selec%ng the cases
• More than 100 candidates of digital soluGons – web and
mobile plaLorms – were reviewed.
• 28 Cases were selected using the three criteria:
1. A service uses ICTs to promote itself and enhance
communicaGon within a community.
2. A service requires collaboraGon in both the physical and the
digital forms.
3. A service must be designed and provided by users in order to
saGsfy their social needs.
46. 2. Mapping diffused informa%on
Mapping diffused informaGon is a collaboraGve service in which users collaborate to
map diffused locaGonal informaGon.
http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/node/8192
49. 5. Mutual‐support circles
Mutual support circles are a collaboraGve service where people provide mutual support
to one another in order to solve problems that they have in common.
Local Vocals Singing Group
54. Finding 2. A system of collabora%ve service
An enabling solution motivates and empowers people to
Enabling soluGon create a service to meet their needs e.g.) Meetup Group
A platform hosts one or more enabling solutions
PlaLorm e.g.) Meetup.com
55. Finding 2. A system of collabora%ve service
CollaboraGve A service created by users involves activities in the digital
service and physical world. e.g.) Team Fighting Diabetes
An enabling solution motivates and empowers people to
Enabling soluGon create a service to meet their needs e.g.) Meetup Group
A platform hosts one or more enabling solutions
PlaLorm e.g.) Meetup.com
56. Finding 2. A system of collabora%ve service
An event is the result of a collaborative service in the physical
Event world. e.g.) Team Fighting Diabetes hiking day
CollaboraGve A service created by users involves activities in the digital
service and physical world. e.g.) Team Fighting Diabetes
An enabling solution motivates and empowers people to
Enabling soluGon create a service to meet their needs e.g.) Meetup Group
A platform hosts one or more enabling solutions
PlaLorm e.g.) Meetup.com
61. Present works with Dr. Gruzd
• Social network analysis of digital plaLorms for collaboraGve
services,
• Social network analysis of farmers in the Agricultural Park
South of Milan,
• ComparaGve analysis between typologies of collaboraGve
services and social media that they use,
‐> The goal is to develop and evaluate a socio‐technical
framework for designing digital plaLorms to support social
innovaGon and sustainability in a more systemaGc way