Des (Mag.)(ord. 270) - BV (1159) PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEM DESIGN - DESIGN PER IL SISTEMA PRODOTTO SERVIZIO
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Obiettivi dell'insegnamento
Day-by-day ideation and concept development: • reflect and propose design solutions that are generated to serve plants and other living creatures as stakeholders, without prioritizing human interest and advantage; • experience reciprocity and empathy with the environment.
Risultati di apprendimento attesi
• understanding plans through direct multi-sensorial experience; • understanding plants: how they grow, how they sense the world, how they react, etc.: • acquiring a deeper sense of nature and plants’ life experiences; • ability to design with a life-centered (and not only a human-centered) approach.
Argomenti trattati
Designing from the Plants’ Perspective Towards a life-centered design approach
The urban forest “Parco la Goccia” will be the unusual classroom for a seminar that will provide the students with the opportunity to design for plants as stakeholders. The objective is to: • offer a radically different perspective, • introduce participants to the concept of interdependence, • expose participants to other ways of “sensing” and approaching a design challenge, • allow participants to feel the interaction between plants and humans through different senses, • create opportunities for them to understand the perspective of plants and different life forms, and • ultimately envision and develop credible design solutions that can include: o spaces o materials o systems o artifacts o interactions/services and that enable a symbiotic relationship between people and nature. In collaboration with Damien Lutz, evidence-based Senior UX Designer and Researcher in Sydney Australia, founder of the experimental design hubs, lifecentred.design and Future Scouting, and selfpublished author of three fringe design guides. With the contribution of Terrapreta, an organization that helps landowners, municipalities and community groups reclaim, decontaminate and regenerate their degraded land through the value of soil intelligence.
Bibliography (initial recommendations):
• Stefano Mancuso (2022). The Nation of Plants. Profile Books Ltd. (link) • Damien Lutz (2022). The Life-Centered Design Guide. (link) • Stefano Mancuso (2018). The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior. Atria Books. (link) Design Seminar 2024_Fabio Di Liberto + Damien Lutz_ Designing from the Plants’ Perspective 4 • David George Haskell (2018). The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors. Penguin Books. (link) • Merlin Sheldrake (2005) Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future. Random House UK. (link) • Florence Burgat (2020). Qu’est-ce qu’une plante? Essai sur la vie végétale (What is a plant? An essay on plant life). Éditions du Seuil • Suzanne Simard (2021). Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest. Allen Lane; First Edition • Emanuele Coccia (2021). Metamorphoses. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. • Martín Ávila (2022). Designing for interdependence. Bloomsbury • Monica Gagliano (2018). Thus Spoke the Plant. North Atlantic Books and AC2 Literary Agency.
Other resources:
• Suzanne Simard: How Trees Talk to Each Other TED Talk (2016) https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other • Daniel Immerwahr: Mother trees and socialist forests: is the ‘wood-wide web’ a fantasy? The Guardian 23rd April, 2024 - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/23/mother-trees-and-socialist-forestsis-the-wood-wide-web-afantasy?utm_term=662cbe93510a339c34a506717d48fd99&utm_campaign=TheLongRea d&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=longread_email • Onzik K & M Gagliano (2022). Feeling Around for the Apparatus: A Radicley Empirical Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v8i1.34774 • Franks, B, Webb C, Gagliano M & B Smuts (2020). Conventional science will not do justice to nonhuman interests: A fresh approach is required. https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol4/iss27/17/ • Monica Gagliano: How ‘heretical’ science revealed the intelligence of Nature | TEDxSydney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z-kZZVyHdw • More articles and papers here: https://www.monicagagliano.com/ Pre-reading resources and open access links received by Damien Lutz: • About non-human personas • Non-human persona library • Non-human personas and totems • Design projects using non-human personas
If any of you would like to register a free account on Damien Lutz's website, you will be able to access more resources: https://lifecentred.design/non-human-personas/the-non-human-persona-library-and-backpack/.
Agenda NOTE: Preliminary reading of selected books and papers on the topic is recommended before the seminar begins.
Monday 03/06/24 _________________________________________________________________ Field work in Parco la Goccia Morning 09:30–13:00 Welcome - Fabio Di Liberto intro - Damien Lutz intro Introduction to the workshop - Goals and focus of the week - Expected outcomes and outputs - Structure and scheduling of the class Presentation of Damien Lutz - Title of the presentation: TBD - Open Discussion Lecture by Francesco Vergani - Title of the presentation: Plants as Stakeholders - Open Discussion Lecture by Terrapreta - Title of the presentation: TBD - Open Discussion Afternoon: 14:00-18:00 - Group Formation - Experiential Workshop with Damien Lutz and Open Discussion - Reflection on experiential workshop, readings and research assignments Participants’ autonomous work in teams, in-context research Tuesday 04/06/24 _________________________________________________________________ Field work in Parco la Goccia Morning 09:30–13:00 Open group discussion about the previous days’ experience Participants’ autonomous work in teams, in-context research and informal reviews with instructors Afternoon 14:00–18:00 Design Seminar 2024_Fabio Di Liberto + Damien Lutz_ Designing from the Plants’ Perspective 3 Participants’ autonomous work in teams, in-context research and preliminary concept development and very preliminary prototyping Wednesday 05/06/24 ______________________________________________________________ Field work in Parco la Goccia Morning 09:30-13:00 Participants’ autonomous work in teams, in-context research and preliminary concept development and preliminary prototyping Afternoon 14:00–18:00 Mid-term reviews: preliminary concepts presentation, feedback session from instructors and selection of the most promising design direction Thursday 06/06/24 ________________________________________________________________ Field work in Parco la Goccia Morning 09:30-13:00 Group reviews and feedback session from instructors on selected design direction Afternoon 14:00–18:00 Participants’ autonomous work in teams, concept refinement and final reviews with instructors Friday 07/06/24 ___________________________________________________________________ Wrap-up and final participants’ presentations in Parco la Goccia Morning 09:30-13:00 Concept refinement and final reviews with instructors Afternoon 14:00–18:00 Final Presentations of final outputs and prototypes
Students will work in small teams. Each team will develop independently separated original projects. The evaluation criteria for this course will be based upon the student's capability to understand the workshop topic, to generate concepts, to critically analyze feedback, to develop and present innovative and poetic ideas based on the stimuli and process suggested by the instructors. Coherence with workshop objectives (Designing from the Plants’ Perspective) will be fundamental. A positive and collaborative attitude to teamwork and active participation during the course, will also be favorably considered.
Bibliografia
Stefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants, Editore: Profile Books Ltd., Anno edizione: 2022
Stefano Mancuso, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior, Editore: Atria Books, Anno edizione: 2018
Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future , , Editore: Random House UK, Anno edizione: 2005
Damien Lutz, The Life-centred Design Guide (Life-centred Design Guides) , Anno edizione: 2022
David George Haskel, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, , Editore: Penguin Books, Anno edizione: 2018
Florence Burgat, Qu'est-ce qu'une plante? Essai sur la vie végétale (What is a plant? An essay on plant life), , Editore: Éditions du Seuil, Anno edizione: 2020
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