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Contents Cumulus conference Shanghai Young Creators for Better City & Better Life 6–10 September 2010 Tongji University Shanghai, China FOREWORD Lou Yongqi SELECTED PAPERS 5 Designing the Young Creators for Better City & Better life Session 1 Social Innovation & Sustainability OPENING SPEECH Christian Guellerin 8 “Better cities, better life” Luigi Ferrara – Elise Hodson – Yen Trinh 27 Renovating the Suburbs for a Sustaina­ ble Future: A World House Year 3 Project at the Institute without Boundaries KEYNOTE SPEECHES Anna Meroni Ezio Manzini 32 Design for services and place develop­ 9 Social innovation and design: How ment. Interactions and relations as designers can trigger and support ways of thinking about places: the case sustainable changes of periurban areas John Thackara Ulla Johansson – Maria Nyström – Henning 15 Design for a new restorative economy Eklund – Jill Woodilla 41 Reality Studios: A Combined Device for Jeremy Myerson Education, Research & Social Change 18 A landscape of change for design challenges Penny Herscovitch – Dan Gottlieb – Liliana Becerra – Mariana Amatullo – David Mocarski WU Zhiqiang – Yrjö Sotamaa 46 Safe Agua: A Collaboration between 22 Sustainable Design – Design for Un Techo Para mi País and Art Center sustainable life – Design for Future College of Design Tim Brown Carla Cipolla – Nadia Carvalho 24 What happens if we move from design 56 Designing a new food system for to design thinking? Seeing the big Federal University of Rio de Janeiro picture nets bigger results (UFRJ): A “Slow Food” perspective Virginia Tassinari – Nik Baerten 59 Design for togetherness Eduardo Staszowski 65 Amplifying Creative Communities in New York City Lou Yongqi Designing the Young Creators for Better City & Better life Session 2 Session 4 Local Wisdom & Globalization Old & Young Federica Vacca – Paola Bertola Ian McArthur 73 Fashion Artisan in Design Culture. 119 Creating Culturally Adaptive Pedagogy An interpretative model. Katie Gaudion Jacqueline Otten – Michael Krohn 127 The Multi­Sensory Environment (MSE): 81 Regional Knowledge and Global Encouraging Play and Promoting Design Or: The Better You Look, Well­being for all ages: The role of the More you see… the Textile Designer Stuart Walker Jo-Anne Bichard – Gail Knight 85 Design, Aesthetics and Spiritual Values: 135 Everybody Goes: Designing Age­ exploring technology and meaning Friendly Public Toilet Solutions through propositional objects 142 List of Cumulus members Session 3 Socio­Economics & Design Keneilwe Munyai – Mugendi M’Rithaa 95 Local indigenous cultures and modern design innovations: a South African perspective Anne Flemmert Jensen – Mette Mikkelsen – Poul Rind Christensen 101 Between User Driven and Design Driven Innovation – Towards a New Innovation Concept? Yanki Lee – Denny Ho Kwok Leung 109 Designing with People: Developing a digital platform for knowledge transfer and exchange of inclusive design methodology introduction Lou Yongqi Designing the Young Creators for Better City & Better life 5 FOREWORD Lou Yongqi sign as a tool to meet current challenges through pro- active methods. This transformation also presents a Designing the Young unique opportunity to further the development of de- Creators for Better sign as a discipline. The New Task For Design Education City & Better life New modes of innovation require breaking through the walls that separate technology, design and business, and applying innovation to the research and development Lou Yongqi, Vice Dean of College of Design and Innovation, Tongji process for the entire life cycle of a product. An innova - University, Cumulus Executive Board Member, Secretary General tive society not only needs designers who can be thor- of CUMULUS 2010 Shanghai Conference ough problem solvers in their own discipline, but also needs those who are capable of interacting with, and The Changing of Design understanding specialists from a wide range of disci- and Design Education plines and functional areas. In China, one of the biggest issues of the past few dec- Given that the trends of design and design education ades is the large-scale urbanization that has been tak- are clear, the transition cannot be finished overnight. ing place all over the country. In this context, “Better There are two general topics of new tasks for design City, Better Life”, the theme of the 2010 Shanghai Ex- education: one – how to educate these “T” shape young po, represents the common wish that humans share for creators; two – in which ways design schools themselves better living conditions in future urban environments. can be a force to generate sustainable innovation. Diversity of culture, prosperity of urban economy, in- novations, remodeling of communities and interaction The Theme of the Conference between urban and rural areas have been identified University has two missions: one is creating and trans- as the main topics of this Expo. It is clear that all of ferring knowledge and skills, and the second is shaping these topics directly relate to the problems and chal- the vision of the future for society at large. How design lenges associated with the process of global sustaina- can fit the new needs and lead society’s sustainable in- ble development. novation is the biggest mission for the discipline. The Where there are the problems, there is the need for CUMULUS conference 2010 organized by Tongji Univer- design. For the design discipline, the socioeconomic sity during the world Expo 2010 in Shanghai provided changes and new societal needs likewise urge a change a platform to discuss and rethink the design discipline within the discipline. During these years, traditional and the world in which we are now living. aesthetics and function based design definitions have The theme for CUMULUS Shanghai Conference 2010, already changed significantly. These changes can be “Young Creators for Better City and Better Life”, aims to listed in brief as follows: explore how the young generation of designers can be involved in shaping and improving our lives creative- • from objective to strategy ly in a global context. The emerging trends, missions • from disciplinary to interdisciplinary and visions of future design education, research and • from design to design thinking practice, together with the economic, political and so- • from creation to innovation cial impacts of the era, will also be reevaluated during the conference. These expanded roles enable design to become a unique The conference has set up four subthemes: way of thinking and an engine for generating innova- tion. Furthermore, these roles enable design to “think • Sustainability & social innovation big”. In this sense, design is becoming increasingly im- • Local wisdom & globalization portant. • Socio-economics & design Design education MUST change accordingly. Design • Old & young schools should participate in the process of using de- introduction Lou Yongqi 6 Designing the Young Creators for Better City & Better life All of these topics are crucial issues in our current so- The rich knowledge that exists at the local level, com- ciety. Hopefully the discussion of the future of design bined with the global telecommunications, manufactur- and wellbeing can be integrated with national, regional ing and distribution, and worldwide economy sets the and even global economies, societies, and cultures. world stage for a huge leap in assistive products and services of all kinds. The design field can help through their approaches to local, ethnographic design research, Outline of the Sub­themes which studies indigenous peoples and then the appli- Sustainability & social innovation cation on a worldwide scale. Ezio Manzini * The transition towards sustainability asks for the most * Academic Coordinator of Sub­theme Local wisdom & globalization, careful use of all the available resources. On a small, Director and Professor of School of Design, Hong Kong Polytech­ nic University. densely populated, highly connected Planet, social re- sources are the most abundant ones. Their valorization is therefore the most effective strategy towards sustain - Social-economic