Marcia Caines & Ashwin Rajan artwork Mario Suarez “Eighty percent of the environmental impact of the products, services, and infrastructures around us is determined at the design stage. Design decisions shape the processes behind the products we use, the materials and energy required to make them, the ways we operate them on a daily basis, [...]

The SEE project has launched the third edition of the SEE bulletin, the only publication entirely dedicated to matters related to design and innovation policies across Europe and beyond. In his research paper Design for Social Innovation: Creative Communities and Design-Oriented Networks Professor of Design at Politecnico di Milano and a leading expert on sustainable [...]

Yanina Guerzovich Since the 1851 Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace, World Expositions have been a platform to display historical experience and the best global practices. They foster the exchange of innovative ideas that seek to tackle the problems that face mankind in the future. In this spirit, the 2010 World Expo is taking place [...]

Per-Johan Dahl Social space implies a great diversity of knowledge.¹Henri Lefebvre left: Bachelor students working in the “Fullskalelab” at Lund Institute of Technology; top right: Spatial investigations by Bachelor Students at Lund Institute of Technology, School of Architecture; bottom right: School of Architecture Model by Masters Students at the Sustainable Urban Design program, Lund Institute [...]

Marcia Caines JARDIN MANDALA, Gilles Clément, environmental art, PAV 2010, photo Mattia Boero The Earth’s carrying capacity is finite, which means that in order to avoid an ecological overshoot society needs to create new social, economical and political models. Our current models are limited because they require the consumption of ever more resources to grow, [...]