emerging qualities

1. Curitiba 20.11.2012is sustainable social innovation generatinga new aesthetic paradigm?Ezio Manzini,DESIS Network emerging qualities

2. social innovation ideas that work in solving social problems, and do it in socially relevant ways

3. 2012 ? where are we now?

4. Community-supported agriculture, Bejing hundreds of thousands of people, groups, organisations, facing difficult problems, are experimenting original solutions

5. new media are reshaping the range of possibilities: unprecedented forms of organization become possible

6. Social Innovation Europe, March 2011 new political awareness: politicslook with a new interest to social innovation

7. the economic crisis is hitting harder changing people’s motivations and expectations: diffuse practices of alternative economies are emerging

8. NYC, Hurricane Sandy, 30 October 2012 catastrophic events, becoming more and more frequent, make everybody aware of the socio-technical systems fragility

9. 2012 30 October 2012 Black New York the old world is fragile

10. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” 2003 Arundhati Roy World Social Forum, 2003. a new world is appearing

11. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” 2012 Arundhati Roy World Social Forum, 2003. today, November 2012, we can hear much more than a breathing a new world is appearing

12. cohousing, collaborative housing, couch surfing, circles of care, elderly mutual-help, micro-nurseries, time banks, local currencies, car pooling, car sharing, food coops, farmers markets, zero-miles food, community-supported agriculture, neighbourhood care, street festivals, community gardens, community-based tourism, social enterprises, co-working, fair trade organisations, social incubators social innovation facing daily problems people invent viable solutions they are active and collaborative people

13. design for/with collaborative people considering people-as-asset

14. co-housing collaborative housing. collaborative residents Cohousing community, Berlin

15. neighborhood parties collaborative housing. social innovation “New ideas that work in meeting social goals” The Young Foundation, 2006 collaborative neighbors

16. community gardens collaborative housing. citizen-gardeners New York City

17. circles of care collaborative housing. mutual helpers Lower East Side, New York

18. social coop collaborative housing. collaborative work

19. cohousing, collaborative housing, couch surfing, circles of care, elderly mutual-help, micro-nurseries, time banks, local currencies, car pooling, car sharing, food coops, farmers markets, zero-miles food, community-supported agriculture, neighbourhood care, street festivals, community gardens, community-based tourism, social enterprises, co-working, fair trade organisations, social incubators organizational models economic models political actions

20. cohousing, collaborative housing, couch surfing, circles of care, elderly mutual-help, micro-nurseries, time banks, local currencies, car pooling, car sharing, food coops, farmers markets, zero-miles food, community-supported agriculture, neighbourhood care, street festivals, community gardens, community-based tourism, social enterprises, co-working, fair trade organisations, social incubators what is missing?

21. quality are new perceived qualities emerging?

22. people choose innovative solutions because they like them they search for new qualities they generate new qualities

23. the quality of mutual trust relationships

24. WASHING RESTAURANT ACTIVE SHOPPING LIST MICRO-NURSERIES PRODUCT SHARING E-STOP the quality of the “well done” work

25. the quality of human scale scale

26. the quality of the local-connected places

27. the quality of slowness time

28. the quality of human experience complexity

29. disruptive quality

30. quality to be consumed quality to be produced

31. quality war the war of time, places, works and relationships the war between two civilizations

32. quality to be consumed quality to be produced

33. quality power the food example

34. food fast-global food slow-local

35. Carlo Petrini / Slow FoodThe Slow Food Manifesto Bra, 1989 “everyone has a fundamental right to pleasure” a quality-driven revolution a great case of social innovation

36. vision “everyone has a fundamental right to pleasure … … and, consequently the responsibility to protect the heritage of food, tradition and culture that makes this pleasure possible” action food awareness on the demand side (through consumer-producer, the Convivia) markets for high quality products, on the supply side (through local farmers, the Presidia)

37. vision “We consider ourselvesco-producers, not consumers, because by being informed about how our food is produced and actively supporting those who produce it, we become a part of and a partner in the production” action new food networks community supported agriculture community-based planning (es. the Nutrire Milano Project) from vision to action, and vice versa a great case of strategic design

38. beauty? beauty will save the world

39. Fyodor Dostoyevswky“The idiot”, 1868 beauty will save the world

40. new paradigm new design approach

41. old paradigm the bigger the better

42. next century the more diverse and connected the better new paradigm the more diverse and connected, the better

43. large, vertical fragile small, horizontal resilient

44. people as part of the problem to be satisfied people as part of the solution to be empowered

45. unsustainable quality to be consumed sustainable quality to be co-produced

46. thank you! desis-network.org