Start
11.07.2016
Finish
16.07.2016
Event
Location
Design for communities. Social innovation at the center of the project
The degree course in Industrial Design of the University of the Republic of San Marino organizes San Marino Design Workshop 2016, 8 workshops which from 11 to 16 July 2016 will involve a selected group of internationally known students, companies, institutions and designers.
Communities are at the center of the design themes proposed for the 2016 edition of the workshops.
A community exists, it is revealed, when individuals share the same physical or virtual environment, when they share the same ties, habits and interests. In the complex world that surrounds us, communities aggregate and disintegrate, interact with each other, shape and identify territories or fluctuate in the digital world. In this continuous questioning of meanings and logics, quoting Ezio Manzini, everyone, whether they are individuals, groups, associations, companies, institutions, are driven to put their design skills into play to produce solutions and strategies for social and environmental development more sustainable.
What is the role of “expert” Design today? What contribution can our community, trained in the disciplines of product design, communication and services, make in guiding and supporting new processes that foster and create social innovation?
The 2016 edition takes place under the patronage of:
AgID. Agency for Digital Italy, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Italian Republic
State Secretariat for Tourism and Sport, Republic of San Marino
and in collaboration with:
University of Bologna, Degree course in Industrial Product Design
Titancoop Cooperative Society
San Marino 2000 Consortium
AssoBdM, World Workshops Association
SDC Trade srl, Trony sign
Period: from 11 to 16 July 2016
Competition venue: San Marino City RSM, Contrada Omerelli, 20
Credits: no. 4
Entries will be possible from
Tuesday afternoon 14 June and until Wednesday 29 June
at the Secretariat of the Degree Course in Design
Santa Chiara Monastery
WORKSHOPS 1
Title Citizen Centered Design. The citizen at the center of the project
theme There are over one hundred thousand public administration online services in Italy, however the level of their use is among the lowest in Europe. The reason is obvious: languages, technologies and navigation experiences are, in most cases, extremely distant from those that every citizen experiences on a daily basis. The designer's contribution therefore becomes the essential contribution for the construction of an effective user experience through models open source and collaborative able to rethink the communication of public utility. Equally fundamental is informing the citizen of such experiences and opportunities for a new future of the relationship between the State and the citizen.
designer Elisa Pasqual
tutor Marco Fabbri
edited by Gianni Sinni and Sebastiano Bagnara
under the patronage of
AgID. Agency for Digital Italy, Presidency of the Council of Ministers, , Italian Republic
WORKSHOPS 2
Title Open source Technologies for automation and services in developing Countries
theme The development of electronic prototyping platforms and the growing contribution of the open source community on automation issues has led designers to deal with project scenarios in which, even if there is no electricity grid or internet connection, they have tried to create self-built solutions for the development of automation services. The objective of the workshop is the design of systems to be distributed under an open source license for the development of services in small communities that can be replicated, modified, becoming components of an open platform for the development of self-sustainable systems.
designer Mirco Piccin with Michele Zannoni
tutor Gian Andrea Giacobone
WORKSHOPS 3
Title Out of the frame
theme Migration is a very sensitive topic in recent years, we know it well. Fleets of people moving from Africa and the Middle East to Europe. But migration is also a European who goes to live in the Caribbean, or in America, as happened at the beginning of the last century, where we were the protagonists of mass migrations. But behind every person there is a story, there are emotions, there are joys and fears. And if you were the protagonist of the migration? What would be your emotions, your thoughts, your fears, your hopes?
This workshop aims to bring to light and express, through photographic art, just that. You will learn techniques to make the colors, lights and shadows better, but the most important part will be the creative part, that of imagination and identification with the journey. How to create a work of art and communicate, with details, lights, colors, what you imagine, what you think, your emotions, your journey to a new land.
designer Nidaa Badwan
tutor Frances Eyes
WORKSHOPS 4
Title Sharing forms. Migrant communities and local communities
theme Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers are the common names with which we identify rivers of people fleeing their countries and in search of a welcoming land. But it's not just people who come. Seas and lands are crossed by stories, memories and knowledge other held tightly in the soul, in the mind and often in the hands of these people, becoming in turn Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers. This identification can still lead today to forms of exclusion or can, in opposition, offer us unexpected opportunities to meet and mix, through a dialogue and the inclusion of new eyes: theirs. Tracing a new journey starting from their memory through the use of shapes, colors and objects in the search for a common language could offer us a meeting point to read not only the discomfort of these people but their diversity perceived as cultural wealth. A simple object can have a very strong emblematic value as it is the materialization of rituals and cultures and therefore a vehicle for recounting memories and for the creation of a materialism capable of instructing and offering stories. Stories of an encounter between complementary figures, designers and migrants, born to learn and make known theother in the form of objects that question the changes taking place and the importance of discovering a society based on inclusion, participation and community. Objects as unpublished travel traces, to build social ties and to have new eyes.
designer Alice Hats
tutor Gianfranco Rollo
WORKSHOPS 5
Title From the fabric to the product for use. Tradition, regeneration, innovation in Chefchaouen
theme The workshop intends to explore and develop the possibilities of designing new product lines for the third sector starting from the natural wool fibers of the Tanger - Tétouan Region in Northern Morocco.
Some garments made from sheep and/or goat wool, such as tunics jellaba o gandora they represent one of the cultural identity elements of the traditional craftsmanship of this Mediterranean area, but they appear more and more as goods to be displayed in a museum rather than used. The theme of the workshop proposes rethinking and experimenting with traditional Berber fabrics, products with uses and functions that hybridize with those of clothing or completely detach from them, creating new uses or unexpected fields of application. The design investigation is placed in the context of a multidisciplinary applied research project to rethink the local supply chain processes of the Region, with a view to starting a design laboratory of social and solidarity economies in Chefchaouen. The dynamics of the globalized market also require in this North African area a rethinking of the strategies, systems and services involved in the artisan supply chain in the phases of financing, production, transformation, distribution and sale of products, looking at design as a driver of technological innovation , semantics, language and thought. The design of the new product lines will also have to consider promotion, certification and relationship scenarios and tools as priorities, which represent new potential economic channels for local artisan communities and cooperatives.
designer Raffaella Brunzin with Riccardo Varini
tutor Giulia Rattini
in collaboration with
ASSOBDM, Il Filò, Microfinance
WORKSHOPS 6
Title San Marino for all the senses
theme Tourism is not only one of the most important sectors for the economy, but also an instrument of cultural growth and personal emancipation. For these reasons, it is essential today to guarantee access to places of cultural interest to all citizens, including people with disabilities. The workshop focuses in particular on expanding the San Marino tourist offer which is also accessible to people with visual impairments, with a view to inclusive planning. Starting from the analysis of the needs and peculiarities of the reference target and from the identification of the themes and places of greatest tourist interest, projects will be hypothesized to communicate and enhance the extraordinary beauties of San Marino not only through the sense of sight, but synergistic all the senses. Particular attention will be given to the use of new technologies and materials.
designer Erika Cunico
tutor Marina Ceccolini
under the patronage of
State Secretariat for Tourism and Sport, Republic of San Marino
in collaboration with
San Marino 2000 Consortium
WORKSHOPS 7
Title New structures and spaces for Km0 distribution
theme The story of the creation of a consumer cooperative began in San Marino in the mid-70s and since 19 December 1977, when Titancoop was definitively recognized as a cooperative body, it has never failed in its founding principles: supervising and guaranteeing entire product chain with particular attention to the well-being of consumers, territories and the environment.
It is from this point of view that today Titancoop, in order to further enhance the territories where it operates, wants to make its spaces available and promote new short-chain formulas in order to favor a rediscovered direct contact between local producers and consumers; effectively re-proposing within its stores what were once distribution methods with the guarantee of the neighborhood.
It is in Titancoop's founding vocation to take care of and promote these new dynamics by proposing, through this targeted workshop, possible new concepts to welcome local productions, through temporary installations, thematic corners or shopinshops, which complement their existing structures.
The workshop will open up new scenarios on the subject, deepening its methods and dynamics and designing structures that can possibly be replicated by Titancoop in its stores.
designer Dario Scodeller
tutor Simona Zurlo
in collaboration with
Titancoop Cooperative Society
will be held at the same time
WORKSHOPS 8
Title Visual identity for the new private label to be included in Trony distribution points
theme The workshop is part of the larger research project financed by the Trony brand for the Degree Course in Design of the University of the Republic of San Marino for the development of the visual identity of a new Private Label to be included in its stores.
In particular, within the research that has already begun, the themes of defining the visual communication codes of the new brand will be addressed, aimed at drafting the visual identity manual which will include the guidelines for the application of the future communication logics of the unborn brand.
designer Lucia Roscini and Andrea Medri of Zup Design
tutor Ilaria Ruggeri
in collaboration with
SDC Trade srl, Trony sign
Didactic and organizational structure
Massimo Brignoni
3289406129
massimo.brignoni@unirsm.sm
