Giulia Simeone

• Politecnico di Milano

Il concetto di metabolismo urbano, proposto da Wolman a metà degli anni Sessanta, è oggi al centro di un dibattito multidisciplinare. Da un lato esso invita a cogliere il carattere circolatorio, interconnesso, transcalare dei flussi di produzione e scambio di materia ed energia, dall’altro contribuisce a ragionare sugli effetti sociali di questa co...

Tools, interfaces, methods, and practices that can help bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory In...

This paper presents and discusses an in-progress action format developed through a reflection on several design experiments aiming to make things happen. It brings to the already rich debate on social innovation a designer’s perspective mainly focused on action research and field actions. It is an action format of design for social innovation, the...

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The Politecnico di Milano community garden ‘COLTIVANDO’ has been developing for over 12 months, in the Design department INDACO of Politecnico di Milano. The COLTIVANO project is inspired by the Creative Communities movement, as we recognize the power of a community garden to act as a mobaliser to respond to various sustainability problems that cro...

This paper presents a glimpse of an ongoing research project on sustainable "place" development. It focuses on the importance of using a co-design approach with the community, and on some experimental tools used in the design process. It will introduce the notion of design for "place" development applied in a research case called Feeding Milan, a f...

This paper aims to present, from a Service Design perspective, a scenario of sustainable development for a critical and crucial context: the rururban territory i.e. the periurban area that lies between a town or city and its rural surroundings. It is here that urban and rural dynamics meet, creating unique opportunities (or risks) to improve the qu...