Seven design perspectives to build capacities for people, organisations and ecosystems
This book explores how design can build capacities for individuals, organizations, and ecosystems, enabling them to navigate the complexities of sustainability transitions. The book introduces the ECODeCK project, a design-driven capacitybuilding model developed to support sustainable transitions in the manufacturing sector.
cod. 10319.41
Unfolding shifting views on the use of prototypes in design research
This volume examines the evolving role of prototypes in design research, emphasizing their function as intentional and transient objects that facilitate the transition from abstract concepts to concrete design outcomes. The book investigates how prototyping contributes to knowledge generation, design process development, and the articulation of experiential understanding.
cod. 10319.39
Case Studies, Project Experiences, Communication Criticism
The QUESTION OF ALTERITY has become fundamental to understanding contemporary societies, which are increasingly multicultural, multiethnic and intersectional. Today, it is legitimate to think that the design dimension can also undertake research paths that highlight THE NEED TO RECOGNISE THE OTHER: from migratory flows to gender cultures, from social fragility to mental health, from cultural distances to the difficulties of social integration, etc. This is the direction in which the essays in this volume are heading.
cod. 10313.5
From Mass Production to Social Awareness
In a time when profound sociocultural and technological changes are affecting the design discipline, this book presents a number of consolidated and emerging issues in product design under four dominant perspectives: technical, human, digital and social. Different perspectives underlying modifications and adaptations of the design concept, together with the fixed elements that have characterized product design since its inception during the Industrial Revolution, are the subjects of analysis and discussion in the present book.
cod. 10319.18
A reflection towards the definition of a taxonomy
This book aims at encompassing the panorama of design tools being developed, tested and adopted: an original taxonomy that guides towards the organization of design tools and a representative collection of design tools developed within the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano with specific instructions on how to use them.
cod. 10319.15
Conoscere l'Altro, pensare il possibile
Anche al design può essere chiesto di intraprendere percorsi di ricerca che mettano in evidenza la necessità del riconoscimento dell’altro, perché artefatti e sistemi sono anche veicolo di visioni del mondo, credenze e pregiudizi culturali. Dai flussi migratori alle culture di genere, dalle fragilità sociali alla salute mentale, dalle distanze culturali all’integrazione sociale, l’alterità può essere tema e metodo di progetto.
cod. 10313.1
The Impact on Creativity and Team Collaboration
The book discusses how to include artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the early stages of the design process. AI could significantly impact the creative phases of the design process if applied consciously. The book treats the Human-AI collaboration as a collaboration between human agents, proposing a set of guidelines helpful to achieving an efficient partnership with the machine.
cod. 10085.9
Comunicazione, media e nuovi terrorismi dopo l'11 settembre
cod. 1381.1.4