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Abstract

Emerging post-industrial societal needs require the evolution of existing networks of industrial infrastructures toward more distributed and citizen-centered configurations. This opens up new questions regarding what design processes and practices are necessary to effect change within these systems often deliberately not open to bottom up innovation. During this seminar we’ll introduce a set of design explorations in tracing and materializing infrastructures in order to make them available for design and participation. Taking logistic services in a remote rural area of northern Sweden as a case study and field site, this presentation illustrates the process that led to the rehearsal and speculation on the possibility of a future community-owned delivery network operated by drones. The project provides an example of a possible framework for initiating and curating the transformation of industrial systems towards more open and locally adaptive forms and functions.

Speaker

Lorenzo is a designer with a particular interest in large sociotechnical systems and sustainability. After his MS in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano, he had the chance to spend some time in the States working at MIT as a research assistant for the Vehicle Design Summit, collaborating with the Senseable City Lab and the Mobility and Energy Efficiency Team of Rocky Mountain Institute in Boulder Colorado. He’s now PhD Candidate at the Umea Institute of Design, Sweden.

Please find a copy of this presentation here.