Design as agent of sustainable changes
By Prof. Ezio Manzini

Social innovation. Over the last decade a multiplicity of social actors throughout the world (institutions, enterprises, non-profit organisations and, most of all, networks of collaborative people) have moved outside mainstream models of thinking and doing, generating a variety of promising initiatives (community-supported agriculture, co-housing, car pooling, community gardens, neighborhood care, time banks,…). They are working prototypes of sustainable ways of living and, at the same time, they are viable solutions to complex problems of the present (such as social cohesion, urban regeneration, healthy food accessibility, water and sustainable energy management). Together they form a promising wave of social innovation recognizable in all the regions of the world, from mature industrial countries, to emerging and developing ones.

Design as agent of sustainable changes
By Prof. Ezio Manzini

Social innovation. Over the last decade a multiplicity of social actors throughout the world (institutions, enterprises, non-profit organisations and, most of all, networks of collaborative people) have moved outside mainstream models of thinking and doing, generating a variety of promising initiatives (community-supported agriculture, co-housing, car pooling, community gardens, neighborhood care, time banks,…). They are working prototypes of sustainable ways of living and, at the same time, they are viable solutions to complex problems of the present (such as social cohesion, urban regeneration, healthy food accessibility, water and sustainable energy management). Together they form a promising wave of social innovation recognizable in all the regions of the world, from mature industrial countries, to emerging and developing ones.