Abstract
The contemporary global challenges due to the post-pandemic era have highlighted the need to identify new opportunities to address the green and digital transition, faced by current society in order to promote a more sustainable future. In reaction to the European Industrial Strategy, the industrial and design context is undergoing several systemic changes, introducing new professional roles to support these workflows. In this framework, the figure of the transitional designer is developed, who has the potential to activate mediation and facilitation processes in the sustainable and circular perspective of industrial and digital development. Therefore, the concept of sustainability is related to this dual transition, according to a tangible and intangible vision, and concerns individual and collective behaviors that relate to responsible innovation, referring to principles of ethics and inclusion, transparency and collaborative processes. Considering this background, a proactive and integrative design approach can be a method for green and digital transformation to be mutually reinforcing, following a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach among the ecosystem of actors and stakeholders. The objective of the study is to analyze academic and applied research experiences, best practices, and future development scenarios of how the role of the transitional designer can mediate and anticipate integrative and sustainable processes, with reference also to collaboration with new technologies for a democratization of new tools.
Presenters
Virginia VignaliPhD Student, Department of Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Laura Succini
researcher, Advanced Design Unit - Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Michele Zannoni
Associate professor, Department of Architecture , University of Bologna, Italy Veronica Pasini
PhD Student, Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2024 Special Focus—People, Education, and Technology for a Sustainable Future
KEYWORDS
Green transition, Digital transition, Intangible sustainability, Digital democratization, Human-Machine collaboration
