STATUS

Completed

DATE

2020 / 2021

PROJECT SCALE

OTHERS

RESEARCH UNIT(S)
FUNDINGS

Bando Strutture. "International Cooperation Agreements – Projects for Promoting Innovative Initiatives by Departments within the Framework of University-Wide and Sector-Specific Agreements"


DESCRIPTION

The Winter School is an interactive and intensive learning/training program that includes workshops, debates, and presentations. Its aim is to provide participants with knowledge of social innovation through a systemic approach.
The program promotes collaborative design activities focused on Design for Responsible Innovation, applied to real-world cases in the participants' home regions (Italy, Chile, Mexico). These activities encourage active collaboration with external stakeholders beyond academia, such as businesses, public institutions, associations, and more. This exchange opportunity among students, researchers, and local communities will contribute to creating a multicultural experimental environment, where design cultures will lead the innovation process.

IMPACTS & RESULTS

1. Advancement of knowledge on Responsible Innovation applied to Design, through the development of user-friendly interfaces linked to the achievement of MoRRI (Monitoring the evolution of Responsible Research and Innovation).
2. Enhancement and sharing of the most innovative and open resources already individually adopted by the involved universities, to develop new teaching prototypes related to Responsible Innovation themes.
3. Development of transversal skills: communication, prototyping, work in multidisciplinary and international teams, including new forms of exchange and sharing (adoption of shared and collaborative online platforms, remote teaching, etc.).
4. Strengthening of the international Design community through exchange teaching activities for the development of joint research, creating an active network of students, entrepreneurs, innovators, and academic institutions. This aims to promote new teaching and learning practices and new research strategies, following a "quadruple helix" approach.
5. Transnational visibility for the involved universities, which are part of the top 100 in international rankings, with the strengthening of the Latin Network for Process Design Development.

PUBBLICATIONS

Succini, L., Ascari, M., Gianfrate, V., Formia, E., & Zannoni, M. (2021). Design for Responsible Innovation. Social impacts of products and services. PAD - Design Value in the Mediterranean, 21, 235-255. 

Formia, E., Gianfrate, V., & Succini, L. (Eds.), Design per l’Innovazione
Responsabile. Franco Angeli Editore