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emerging scenario.
active well-being and distributed economies
Ezio Manzini INDACO, Politecnico di Milano
people who, in their everyday life, invent and realize new forms of organization to solve a problem or to open new opportunities.
creative communities
perspectives: they have to be seen in the framework of the on-going big change and of concourring socio-technical innovatons.
… the growing individualization is melting the traditional forms of organization: new social networks will appear (and are appearing).
… the environmental pressure is changing people’s perceptions and economics: new ways of thinking and new ways of doing will appear (and are appearing).
… the increased connectivity is producing a favorable technological habitat for social innovation: new forms of organization, new ways of doing will appear (and are appearing).
valorization of local typical products.
the production of high quality highly localized products, in particular food; the success of the Slow Food Association
R&DNew Products
Domestic & InternationalMarkets
Resin
EstablishedProducts
A new Brand“mastiha shop”
Mastic Tree
Source: Distributed Economies Laboratories
new producer-consumer networks.
networks that permit a direct relationship between consumers and between producers and consumers.
individual people and social organizations are more and more inter-connected and a new form of society appears: the network society.
in the network society, the small is (or can be) a local knot of a global web. And the “local” is a locally based cosmopolitan community, i.e. a community of people embedded in a place, but open and connected with other communities/places.
connected computers and connected local energy systems (co-generation and renewable energies plants) as a new possible infrastructure …
a production systems organized as networks of small scale, flexible, highly context-related units.
( Distributed Economies Laboratories)
light, lean and adaptable systems, as distributed production and services, low transport intensive products and services, local and seasonal food
better use of existing resources, as collective use of renewable energies, higher recycling possibilities, better control on waste generation and management
direct producers-consumer links as de-intermediation of the distribution system, more power on the consumers’ and local producers’ sides
Conventional Energy Systems
National Boundary
Regional Boundary
Transmission
Distribution
Source: Distributed Economies Laboratories
Industrialwaste
MSW
Forestry
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Bioenergy Systems in Sweden & Finland
Source: Distributed Economies Laboratories
trading goods and services EBay 120 millions
people registered . developing free software Linux 120.000 registered developers . new
ways of conceiving games The Sims
thousands of users contribute to the contents . mass developed astronomic research
hundred of thousands of dedicated amateurs are involved . the overwhelming
success of the Wikipedia project . the rise of
the open-welfare concept …
end-users applications as blogs, podcast, wikis, social networking websites, search engines, auction websites and peer-to-peer services.
considered as a whole these applications are called social computing or web 2.0,
co-creation models: mass peer-to-peer organizations. Large scale, highly distributed systems which combine many players to carry out complex tasks … without requiring burdensome, top-down hierarchical organization …
(RED, Design Council, UK)
co-creation of new forms of organization (that permit a sustainable use of local resources) and of new forms of social knowledge (from Free software, to Creative Commons
and Wikipedia) …
a stronger link with places and local communities as a potential driver for localized sustainable
systems …
search for flexibility . industrial districts . industrial symbiosis . changes in consumers attitudes and behaviors . new producer-consumers relationships . new forms of
localized, cooperative organization . distributed generation of energy . economy of scale . economy of the net…
economy where diverses range of local activities are organized in the form of the small units that are synergistically connected with each other
( Distributed Economies Laboratories)
risk management.
decentralised systems are, for their same nature, more robust than the centralised ones
techno-economic drivers.
flexibility and adaptability to different contexts and to changing demands; reduction of waste and transport intensity.
social and environmental motivations.
bottom-up control on technical systems; valorisation of local resources, consolidation of local economies and social fabric.
the “base of the pyramid” issue.
networked systems can help in answering to the need/opportunity of developing businesses with the poorest layers of the world society.
where do shared visions come from?
a social conversation that links and compares different materials and individual visions