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Scheda Riassuntiva
Anno Accademico 2023/2024
Scuola Scuola del Design
Insegnamento 057147 - PSS DESIGN (SEMINARS)
Cfu 4.00 Tipo insegnamento Tirocinio
Docenti: Titolare (Co-titolari) Lutz Damien

Corso di Studi Codice Piano di Studio preventivamente approvato Da (compreso) A (escluso) Nome Sezione Insegnamento
Des (Mag.)(ord. 270) - BV (1159) PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEM DESIGN - DESIGN PER IL SISTEMA PRODOTTO SERVIZIOPS1AZZZZ057147 - PSS DESIGN (SEMINARS)

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)
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• 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
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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


Obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile - SDGs
Questo insegnamento contribuisce al raggiungimento dei seguenti Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda ONU 2030:
  • SDG11 - SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES
  • SDG13 - CLIMATE ACTION
  • SDG15 - LIFE ON LAND

Prerequisiti
 

Modalità di valutazione

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
Risorsa bibliografica obbligatoriaStefano Mancuso, The Nation of Plants, Editore: Profile Books Ltd., Anno edizione: 2022
Risorsa bibliografica obbligatoriaStefano Mancuso, The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior, Editore: Atria Books, Anno edizione: 2018
Risorsa bibliografica obbligatoriaMerlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life : How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future , , Editore: Random House UK, Anno edizione: 2005
Risorsa bibliografica obbligatoriaDamien Lutz, The Life-centred Design Guide (Life-centred Design Guides) , Anno edizione: 2022
Risorsa bibliografica facoltativaDavid George Haskel, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, , Editore: Penguin Books, Anno edizione: 2018
Risorsa bibliografica facoltativaFlorence 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

Software utilizzato
Nessun software richiesto

Forme didattiche
Tipo Forma Didattica Ore di attività svolte in aula
(hh:mm)
Ore di studio autonome
(hh:mm)
Lezione
3:00
6:22
Esercitazione
9:00
19:07
Laboratorio Informatico
0:00
0:00
Laboratorio Sperimentale
0:00
0:00
Laboratorio Di Progetto
20:00
42:30
Totale 32:00 67:59

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