Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study
Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study DESCRIPTION The co-design approach is increasingly popular in facilitating the interchange of knowledge among multiple stakeholders. However, a new challenge emerged during the post-pandemic era when working from home became normal: how to facilitate co-design workshops remotely? The gamification tools, which involve the […]
How to Use Strategic Design Process to Address Complex Challenges
How to Use Strategic Design Process to Address Complex Challenges DESCRIPTION In recent years, new market rules have forced changes in how com- panies relate to their customers. It is necessary to create new solutions precisely adapted to customers’ needs. To do this, companies must expand their boundaries and adopt a transdisciplinary approach. In this […]
How Do Design Narratives Play a Role in Cognitive and Social Processes? An Explorative-Systematizing Expert Interview
Design-Led Sustainable Transition in Organization: A framework to guide and evaluate employee change DESCRIPTION Narratives have increasingly come to the forefront of both design and innovation management. As a fundamental scheme of the human cognitive process and mode of communication, the role of narratives has been emphasized in relation to design and innovation processes. Although […]
Sustainability Training

Define the characteristics and parameters of an e-learning course for workers in the furniture sector in Italy
BOSD – Basics Of Service Design

Introduce the new dynamics of digital services to meet the needs of users and unlock business potential.
I modi della creatività per l’innovazione e la competitività – Edition 2023
I modi della creatività per l’innovazione e la competitività – Edition 2023 DESCRIPTION The collaboration between professionals from the cultural and creative industry and manufacturing companies is peculiar to the Italian context and is currently growing, also involving productive sectors not traditionally associated with the concept of creativity. The case studies and good practices presented […]
Barriers and capabilities for embedding a Strategic Design for Sustainability approach in organisation
Barriers and capabilities for embedding a Strategic Design for Sustainability approach in organisation DESCRIPTION Manufacturing companies play a key role in climate change. Through their use of resources and their activities, they release tonnes of greenhouse gases daily (McKibben, 2012). However, they also have the opportunity to be part of the solution to this problem […]
Narrative of change by design: A strategic design perspective towards alternative futures for sustainability
Narratives of change by design: A strategic design perspective toward alternative futures for sustainability DESCRIPTION The need for a paradigm shift towards sustainability has been growing rapidly. In this regard, the concept of narratives of change (NoC) has been proposed as a powerful conceptual framework to accelerate the growth of alternative framings, identities, and practices […]
Tackling complex drinking water challenge through a gamified concept approach
Tackling Complex Drinking Water Challenge through a Gamified Concept Approach DESCRIPTION The paper proposes a gamified approach to innovative concept generation based on co-creation, including usage of a specific idea development method and tool (IdeaChef®), to address a complex company challenge. IdeaChef® fuelled the dialogue amongst competing multidisciplinary teams and with other supporting stakeholders to […]
Design Thinking methods to activate co-creation process among policymakers, creative industries and SMEs
Design Thinking Methods to Activate Co-creation Process Among Policymakers, Creative Industries and SMEs DESCRIPTION This paper is based on the exploration of how design approaches to innovation can be learnt and adopted by policymakers in order to enable SMEs to co-create with Creative Industries. More specifically it aims to research how design experts from the […]