Areas of Intervention and Services
Acrivities
The activities of the Packaging Design Innovation Lab are organised into interdependent work streams, aimed at transforming the observation of change into design knowledge and that knowledge into shared value for research, industry, and society.
- Observation and monitoring of innovation in packaging. Through the collection, analysis, and comparison of case studies, emerging solutions, technologies, materials, service models, and design practices, this activity makes it possible to identify drivers of transformation, weak signals, and evolutionary trajectories in the sector.
- Systematisation of knowledge involves creating conceptual grids, interpretative frameworks, repertoires, glossaries, and scientific content that make the complexity of the Packaging System legible. These tools facilitate interpretation and support researchers, designers, companies, institutions, and other stakeholders in the supply chain.
- Development of design and meta-design resources. Toolkits, guidelines, checklists, maps, and operational devices support innovation processes by translating knowledge, constraints, and opportunities into practical tools for analysis, ideation, evaluation, and transfer.
- Transfer to productive and institutional systems. Within collaborations with companies, associations, consortia, organisations, and research centres, activities encompass applied research, scientific consultancy, workshops, competitive projects, experiments, validations, and pathways for innovation support.
- Training and dissemination. The Lab promotes a culture of responsible packaging design, innovation quality, and awareness of ongoing changes through educational activities, seminars, events, publications, editorial content, and initiatives targeting academic, professional, and industrial communities.
Together, these activities establish FUTURE-PACK as a permanent laboratory of research and innovation, capable of connecting observation, design, transfer, and community.