CoDesign for Public Interest Services

Release on 2017-03-20 | by Daniela Selloni

There is also room here for further research: several municipalities and organisations demonstrated interest not only in replicating 'Creative Citizens', but in setting up an actual fab-lab of services. Michele d'Alena, a public servant ...

Author: Daniela Selloni
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319532431
Category: Social Science
Page: 193
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This books focuses on co-design, and more specifically, on the various forms co-design might take to tackle the most pressing societal challenges, introducing public-interest services as the main application field. To do so, it presents an extensive study conducted within a particular community of residents in Milan: this is a social innovation story integrated into the discipline of service design, which simultaneously deepens the related concepts of co-design, co-production and co-management of services. Drawing upon this experience and further studies, the book presents the idea of a collaborative infrastructure and its related infrastructuring process in ten steps, in order to explore the issues of incubation and replication of services and to extensively investigate the creation of those experimental spaces in which citizen participation is fostered and innovation in the public realm is pursued. Lastly, the book develops other lines of reflection on co-design seen, for example, as a form of cultural activism, as an instrument for building citizenship, and as a key competence for the public administration and thus as a public service itself. The idea of co-design as a way to regenerate the practices of democracy is a recurring theme throughout the book: co-design is a process that seeks to change the state of things and it is intentionally presented as a long and complex path in which the role of designer is not only that of a facilitator, but also that of a cultural operator who contributes with ideas and visions, hopefully fostering a real cultural change.

Language: en
Pages: 262

FabLab

Authors: Julia Walter-Herrmann, Corinne Büching

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-31 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

Ten years after the first FabLab (a so called fabrication laboratory) was opened at MIT, more than 120 FabLabs exist all over the world. Today, it is time to look back at a decade of FabLab activities. This book shows how small production devices, such as laser cutters and 3D

Language: en
Pages: 64

Creating with 3D Printers

Authors: Amie Jane Leavitt

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

This exciting title serves as an access point for students whose interests in the Fab Lab tend toward production and the introduction of new objects into the world around them. It comes packed with tangible examples of projects that can be undertaken by beginner, intermediate, and advanced Fab Lab users.

Language: en
Pages: 64

Creating with Laser Cutters and Engravers

Authors: Mary-Lane Kamberg

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

This text provides readers with an exploratory lens into the general world of the Fab Lab with an in-depth focus on two specific types of machinery: laser cutters and engravers. These machines give users the unique opportunity to create through the removal of material from its source. Included for readers

Language: en
Pages: 193