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enabling systems.
bottom-up, top-down and peer-to-peer interactions
Ezio Manzini INDACO, Politecnico di Milano
backgroundissues.
scaling-up.
future challenges
> billions of people have to re-orient their behaviors
> mainstream ideas on economy and wellbeing have to be changed
> world-wide infrastructures have to be re-shaped
can creative communities and diffuse social enterprises cope with the scale of the future challenges?
can creative communities and diffuse social enterprises move from being active minorities towards becoming mainstream social and economical organisations?
creative community(bits of) theory.
typologies
> micro-enterprises. > active welfare services. > networks of active people. > participative local institution
creative communities (1)
locally embedded initiatives based on specific service ideas.
creative communities (2)
forms of social organisation based (mainly) on peer-to-peer relationships (collaborative services).
creative communities (3)
grassroots initiatives that take place thanks to bottom-up, top-down and peer-to-peer interactions and exchanges.
creative communities (4)
organisations capable to transform users resources in individual and social values.
creative communities (5)
considering the individual and social values they produce the functional/economic dimension blurs in the social, cultural, ethical and political ones .
enabling systems(bits of) theory.
> favourable contexts as enabling frameworks.
> planned interventions as enabling platforms and solutions.
enabling frameworks.
enabling frameworks: governance tools, infrastructures and public spaces that are conceived to facilitate and consolidate grass roots innovations and to make them more easily replicable.
enabling platforms and solutions.
enabling solution: the combination of products, services, knowledge, procedures that, in a given context, enable people to get a given result
enabling platforms: the combination of products, services, knowledge, procedures that enable people to get a set of (different, but in some ways similar) results
articulation
pre-condition generation(in the preparatory phase)
integration and support(in the operational phase)
scaling-up in the age of networks.
scaling-up and relational qualities.
empowering strategies.
enabling potential: it indicates the degree of implementation in the user’s capabilities. I.e. the implementation of the user’s, or of the user’s context, enabling
characteristics
enabling characteristics
1. Individuals and/or communities empowerment
cultural capabilities (skills and knowledge)
physical capabilities (material prostheses)
psychological drivers (cultural or ethical interests)
economical drivers (saving money or being paid)
enabling characteristics
2. Context conditions improvement
accessibility (reducing physical or psychological barriers)
time to do it (making more efficient the proposed activity, or liberating time in other activities)
space where to do it (reducing the needed space, or liberating other spaces, or creating new spaces)
enabling characteristics
3. Systemic issues development
organizational opportunity (to support the system organization)
network building (to support the connection between different actors)
community building (to support the building of new forms of communities)
critical mass generation (to involve the necessary number of participants)
replication strategies.
replication:
> accessibility> scale> tools
franchising, formats and other replication toolkits.
what to do.
policy makers…
new governance tools…
… to generate enabling platforms as favorable contexts for grass roots initiative and their evolution in lasting organizations
(possible) enabling policies:
> develop tolerant environment > improve accessibility to technologies > attract creative people > take seriously the subsidiarity principle
companies…
new market possibilities…
… specific enabling solutions that, conceived and tested in a specific context, can be used in other different ones.
research institutes…
new bodies of knowledge…
… to answer to social innovation demands, to reinforce open and peer-to-peer models and to link them with the most advanced scientific results.
(possible) lines of research:
> social innovation motivations > creative communities economics > P2P organizational models> implicit and explicit demands for enabling technologies > products, services and infrastructure for enabling solutions
design implications.
enabling systems and designing networks.
designers and designing networks.
step 1
to focus on promising cases and on the services ideas on which they are based.
to develop (participative) design tools to understand case and community specificities and their relationships with the social and physical environment.
step 2
to recognize the main qualities, difficulties and (possible) in-efficiencies.
to develop (conceptual and practical) design tools to analyze and evaluate complex systems.
step 3
to co-conceive and co-develop specific enabling solutions/platforms.
on the basis of the step 2, to design systems to reduce difficulties and inefficiencies (and, at the same time, to maintain the original qualities).
step 3plus
to conceive and develop new products and services to improve the first generation of enabling solutions/platforms.
what can designers do ? (to promote grass roots innovations)
1. to observe and give more visibility to the promising signals that the society is
emitting.
(to tune the “antennas” and to develop “filters”)
SustEveryday Triennale di Milano…
…“solutions basket”
Scenarios des Possibles PASS Brussels…
… “DIY-user research”
projection des 18 video-scénarios
Clavier de balance fruits et légumes à 18 touches.En appuyant sur un bouton, le video-scénario correspondant est projeté en grand avec son commentaire sonore.
2. ZONE DE CAS EXISTANTS
1. ZONE DE PRÉSENTATION DES SCÉNARIOS
3. ZONE INTERVIEWS VISITEURS
Un projecteur diapositives montre les cas existants sur lesquels s'appuient les vidéo-scénarios.
Un écran présente en continue les réactions de visiteurs dans les précédentes présentations des vidéo-scénarios (Triennale en 2003 et PASS en 2004).Les visiteurs du Centre Pompidou peuvent interagir et laisser à leur tour des remarques, suggestions, commentaires…
Sustainable Everyday Project Beaubourg Paris…
…“narratives repositories”
2. to generate a set of
orienting tools.
(to design scenarios as tools to feed the social conversation on the future)
visions, scenarios and catalyzing activities
visions: ways of doing in a possible, sustainable everyday life.
co-housing. groups of houses where people share some services, offer mutual help and develop commonly decided projects
extended home. neighborhood services that substitute the traditional domestic ones, promoting socialization and, potentially, a higher economic and environmental efficiency
Extended HomePARTY PLACE
Exceptional non-daily activities are easy to externalise as organising parties or large family meeting for which the house is not adapted because of a lack of space…
household entrepreneurship.services based on an extended use of the same capabilities that are needed for the normal domestic activities.
service club. places where “clubs of amateurs” organize different kinds of activities (practical, cultural, political initiatives)
elective communities. circles of citizens who choose to create networks in order to achieve different results (mutual help, goods exchange, collective purchases, …)
producer-consumer networks. they permit direct consumer-consumer and consumer-producer relationships
3. to propose new concepts
of enabling solutions.
(to give concrete ideas on what it could be possible to do)
(enabling products) multi-user washing machines, eg. the co-housing washing system
New community housing MULTI-USER LAUNDRY
The most diffused pattern is the sharing of equipments that like multi-users laundries are developed to facilitate collective use.
(enabling products) multi-user toolkits, eg. the do-it-yourself club
(enabling product and services) products and agencies supporting users in complex activities, eg. the energy club
Service ClubENERGY CLUB
Starting from amateur clubs background, they tends to maturates in offering professional services such as energy clubs with a clear offer of services to their members…
(enabling product and services) software and devices for shared use of cars, eg. the car sharing systems
(enabling products and services) devices for alternative mobility, eg. the car-pooling club
(enabling places and services) neighbourhood workshops for do-it-yourself activities eg. the wood atelier
Service ClubWOOD ATELIER
No clear distinction is made between users and providers since as in furniture workshop tyros are due to become progressively trainers…
Service ClubSECOND HAND FASHION ATELIER
Whatever is the motivation, the passion and enthusiasm of members ground the service such as for example sewing ateliers developing their own fashion styles from second hand clothes …
(enabling places and services) neighbourhood workshops for tailoring, eg. the fashion atelier
Producers & Consumers Networks REGIONAL MARKETS
Direct links with consumers are based on raising awareness on local production as with local TV shopping channels giving visibility to all what is available in a region…
(enabling services) communication systems to support local initiatives, eg. the neighbourhood TV
4. to design new sustainable
solutions.
(to make the most promising cases more effective and accessible)
"If you are not able to prepare your meals, you can't live on your own…"
Note: the idea is to set the scene with images showing La Fiambrera solution but with a phrase quoting the original CoU…
Rubi social services:"we try to keep as much
as possible elderly at their home"
Note: this image should change with one characteristic from Rubi social services…
"if you want fresh food, you have to come to the market !"
Employees choose menus and order shopping
SME
Catering Provider
Smart System
Catering prepares menus for SME’s and elderly
Catering delivers: meals for elderly into coolbox; picks up shopping
Catering enters different menus into the smart system
Local market
Elderly take their meals home
Social Services
Social services indicates numbers and specific needs for menus
Home
Local market prepares shopping packs
Local market enters product list and recieves food shopping orders
La FiambreraNote: some adjustments could be done to make it nicer…
Eurest cook
Marketstall
Delivery vandriver
Rubi socialservice
Smart systemoperator
a specific example.
the cohousing.it initiative in Milano
focaliziation …
common garden
common terrace
mrs. Smith home
John & Paul home
workshop
kindergaten
children’s roomBrown’s family home
Mary & Martha home
collective
dinning room
collective kitchen
laundry
car sharing
market
New residential models
nuovi modelli residenziali
observations …
enquires …
understanding of the problems…
shared visions
activation
planning
realization
solutionsdefinition
Co-designmeeting
COHOUSING _ THE CO-DESIGN PROCESS
group builiding
Finding the place
services desing
COHOUSING _ THE CO-DESIGN PROCESS
steps and difficulties
an enabling platform with three elements …
1. large community of interest2. real estate experts team3. facilitators and designers team (with specific facilitation tools)
……4. communication and special initiatives
COHOUSING IN ITALIA
COHOUSING IN ITALIA _ LA COMMUNITY
ELECTIVE COMMUNITIES
Elective Communities are informal circles of citizens choosing to form social networks in order to provide each other mutual help, exchange goods or organise collective purchases…
specific co-deign tools
a community of interest of 3000 people, 4 on-going project in the first 6 months, several other in discussion …
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life. Kwan-Tzu
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