Making visible: Valuating the impacts of design intervention for social cooperative
Making Visible: Valuating the Impacts of Design Intervention for Social Cooperative DESCRIPTION The aim of this exploratory paper is to generate a method of evaluating design interventions for organizational change in third sector and to apply this method to an ongoing design research project with a national social cooperative in Italy. The evaluation model is […]
An innovative training model on creative entrepreneurship: Integrating local stakeholders with summer academies to enhance territorial heritage
An Innovative Training Model on Creative Entrepreneurship: Integrating Local Stakeholders with Summer Academies to Enhance Territorial Heritage DESCRIPTION Cities are living organisms with their physical infrastructure, habitants and visitors passing by. And intellectual events have a considerable impact on both physical and cultural transformation of these organisms. This does not only relate to the advertisement […]
Design and gamification for reshaping relations and services in social cooperatives
Design and Gamification for Reshaping Relations and Services in Social Cooperatives DESCRIPTION It’s increasingly clear that design is no longer just an added value for business in contributing to developing better products, services and experiences; instead, it’s leading a new methodology in managing the process of innovation. In social cooperatives, design thinking is providing possibilities […]
Creativity and culture for territorial innovation
Creativity and Culture for Territorial Innovation DESCRIPTION In the following chapter we will highlight the actions conducted within the framework of a European project called CCAlps (Creative Companies in Alpine Space). To shed light on this first year of work on CCAlps, we will discuss the theoretical premises, which are at the basis of the […]
Gamification for design and innovation: an exploratory case study of co-design
Gamification for design and innovation: an exploratory case study of co-design DESCRIPTION Despite the wider acceptance of gamification approaches to design and innovation, researchers have not extensively considered the link between gamification and cocreation. This paper aims to research the main impacts of gamification approaches to codesign, i.e. interaction and interchange of ideas between users/customers, […]
Co-creation of new solutions through gamification: A collaborative innovation practice
Co-creation of new solutions through gamification: A collaborative innovation practice DESCRIPTION This paper aims to explore the main implications of gamification approaches to collaborative innovation and particularly to co-creation, i.e. the interaction and interchange of ideas between users, customers, suppliers and other actors in the development of new solutions. Despite the few approaches attempting to […]
Skilful and mobile for living well by governing complexity
Skilful and mobile for living well by governing complexity DESCRIPTION The text is part of the publication “Autofficina Futuro,” a choral research work by professors and students of the School of Design Politecnico di Milano to define the interactive overview of mobility in the future, presented at the Autos, Art, Architecture exhibition at the Guggenheim […]
Gli spazi dell’apprendimento
Gli spazi dell’apprendimento DESCRIPTION The text, which is part of a collective publication that investigates the evolution of managerial training, analyzes the influence of the work space in favoring new forms of learning and tries to identify guidelines for work space designers. The analysis starts from the premise that there is no longer a precise, […]
I modi della creatività per l’innovazione e la competitività – Edition 2021
I modi della creatività per l’innovazione e la competitività – Edition 2021 DESCRIPTION More and more design studios and agencies are working on the design of organisational devices capable of fostering creativity and, through it, increasing employee engagment in corporate contexts. The case studies presented show how creativity, which the literature often simplifies with the […]
I modi della creatività per l’innovazione e la competitività – Edition 2022
I modi della creatività per l’innovazione e la competitività – Edition 2022 DESCRIPTION Design Thinking has become the protagonist of the most recent literature on innovation and is confirmed as a social technology: a set of functional tools and methodologies to break conventions, identify new directions and develop new products and services. In Italy too, […]