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Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023

SxI Springer per l'Innovazione, 2014

The development of strategic transport infrastructure needs to be accompanied through dedicated p... more The development of strategic transport infrastructure needs to be accompanied through dedicated processes, enabling both the discussion and sharing of the expected positive and negative impacts and externalities. According to the different scales of intervention, spatial strategies can assume different shapes and require the involvement of a different range of experts and stakeholders. The topic of involvement and long-lasting collaboration, in these cases, touches several dimensions: the actual physical and geographical distance between some of the actors; different cultural backgrounds and languages; the difficulty of reading outputs. The study presents a Collaborative Assessment Workshop designed in order to allow different forms of interaction between the participating actors and enabling them to contributing referring to both their knowledge as local stakeholders and experts’ skills. The first step of the assessment is structured through an approach integrating Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Interactive Visualization Tool (InViTo) in order to create a shared basis for generating discussion. The second step is constituted by a Collaborative Assessment assuming the perspective of strategy design processes as peer learning practice. The Collaborative Assessment Workshop aims at identifying a shared spatial and infrastructural development strategy for the regions connected through the railway Corridor24 Genoa–Rotterdam.

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

As already highlighted in Chap. 3, design is about creating value for users through specific acti... more As already highlighted in Chap. 3, design is about creating value for users through specific activities. However, value creation activities can be very different and can involve different actors in relation to the specific context in which the design action takes place. In the old industrial production perspective, the focus was on the production process where value was created, with a clear distinction between production and use phase. In this perspective, the value creation process was independent from its context. This is still true when services are considered in a product dominant logic, where users are (passively) served by the service personnel, who are fully in charge of the service quality. The responsibility for the design and the value creation process of such service is mostly, if not entirely, in the hands of the service provider. However, within business, marketing, communication and design studies, the last decades have seen a substantial shift from a product-centric perspective to a perspective which focuses on the interaction between the consumer and the service context (Service Dominant logic), in which value is defined by and co-created with

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

The role of design in innovation processes is a trendy topic in current debates on business devel... more The role of design in innovation processes is a trendy topic in current debates on business development and competitiveness. Design activities and methods are to be adopted by firms and companies in order to fully exploit their potential and survive in a highly competitive globalized market. There is a great focus on the capability of design processes to integrate business and societal goals in the definition of new products, services, and instruments in response to the great challenges facing the contemporary world. Design has grown in appeal by identifying itself with a series of tools and codified processes and approaches, which manage to face complexity while cultivating an action/solution oriented approach (Scholl 1995). Nevertheless, design and innovation are multifaceted/manifold concepts that need to be explored and understood in their full spectrum: What do we consider innovation? How do innovation processes work? What design approaches better contribute to innovation

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

Cities embody an organisational climate (Jacobs 1969a) enabling and catalysing innovation and are... more Cities embody an organisational climate (Jacobs 1969a) enabling and catalysing innovation and are by nature innovation generative systems They are considered key environments for the emergence of innovative interactions and relationships: creative and innovative industries tend to localize in or in proximity of urban environments, thus taking advantage of shared knowledge and a density of specialised and potential customers, suppliers, designers, experts and workers to create new tools, technologies, methods, instruments, products, processes, policies and services (

This thesis focuses on the activation and design process of large-scale spatial development strat... more This thesis focuses on the activation and design process of large-scale spatial development strategies in collaborative environments. It especially explores the topic of instruments and procedures connected to these processes. On one hand, of those enabling the establishment of collaborative decision-making processes, and, on the other hand, of those supporting the shift, from a first abstract strategic frame, to the agreement on concrete actions and

use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you g... more use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.

City, Territory and Architecture, Feb 11, 2023

This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and in... more This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning to sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on the analysis of cultural initiatives in six European Cities, the study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses about their contribution to the inception and rooting of sustainability transition dynamics. As a result, the article proposes a set of analytical categories of enabling factors acting across niches and regimes. The same factors are then reinterpreted by referring to scaling mechanisms (scaling up, out and deep). The proposed analytical scheme seeks to offer a broader reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges related to sensing and interpreting urban sustainability transition pathways.

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

As already highlighted in previous chapters, changes taking place in socio-technical systems are ... more As already highlighted in previous chapters, changes taking place in socio-technical systems are described by several authors in different ways through different models. The model described by Grin et al. is strongly coherent with the cities as situated, space-based socio-technical systems and is focussed on the relation among three different components: niches, where innovation takes place for the most part of its maturity process; regimes, the framework of rules and resources that constrains the way things happen in the city; and finally (land)scape, the system of culture and values which produces regimes, the component which is the most stable, the slowest to change (Grin et al. 2010). Within this change model, innovation needs niches as protected spaces to be conceived of and nurtured: niches can allow the needed freedom in terms of behaviours, non-hierarchical relations, rules bending, etc., which makes room for creativity/design to shape novelties. For the most part, innovation is produced in niches and from there it finds its way to the higher levels (incremental/disruptive changes towards regimes in the framework of the scape). Nevertheless, this is not the only trigger for change. More effective are turbulences or perturbations taking place at the level of scapes; they activate change dynamics and mechanisms which may or may not intercept innovation processes (in the niches) depending on their preparedness in relation to the specific change. 1 High disturbances (shocks, disruptive changes, etc.) can open new "windows of opportunities" for regimes to act

City, Territory and Architecture

This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and in... more This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning to sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on the analysis of cultural initiatives in six European Cities, the study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses about their contribution to the inception and rooting of sustainability transition dynamics. As a result, the article proposes a set of analytical categories of enabling factors acting across niches and regimes. The same factors are then reinterpreted by referring to scaling mechanisms (scaling up, out and deep). The proposed analytical scheme seeks to offer a broader reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges related to sensing and interpreting urban sustainability transition pathways.

Studia Informatica Universalis, 2019

Proceedings of the 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress

Cultural interventions as drivers of wellbeing in cities. Insights from Valencia.

Geography, Innovation Capacity and the City, Oct 16, 2018

O4C Milan pilot's evaluation of the first O4C hackathon, held from 17th - 18th December 2016.... more O4C Milan pilot's evaluation of the first O4C hackathon, held from 17th - 18th December 2016. Compressed and PDF'd version of the full, anonymised PowerPoint slide deck.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2023

SxI Springer per l'Innovazione, 2014

The development of strategic transport infrastructure needs to be accompanied through dedicated p... more The development of strategic transport infrastructure needs to be accompanied through dedicated processes, enabling both the discussion and sharing of the expected positive and negative impacts and externalities. According to the different scales of intervention, spatial strategies can assume different shapes and require the involvement of a different range of experts and stakeholders. The topic of involvement and long-lasting collaboration, in these cases, touches several dimensions: the actual physical and geographical distance between some of the actors; different cultural backgrounds and languages; the difficulty of reading outputs. The study presents a Collaborative Assessment Workshop designed in order to allow different forms of interaction between the participating actors and enabling them to contributing referring to both their knowledge as local stakeholders and experts’ skills. The first step of the assessment is structured through an approach integrating Analytic Network Process (ANP) and Interactive Visualization Tool (InViTo) in order to create a shared basis for generating discussion. The second step is constituted by a Collaborative Assessment assuming the perspective of strategy design processes as peer learning practice. The Collaborative Assessment Workshop aims at identifying a shared spatial and infrastructural development strategy for the regions connected through the railway Corridor24 Genoa–Rotterdam.

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

As already highlighted in Chap. 3, design is about creating value for users through specific acti... more As already highlighted in Chap. 3, design is about creating value for users through specific activities. However, value creation activities can be very different and can involve different actors in relation to the specific context in which the design action takes place. In the old industrial production perspective, the focus was on the production process where value was created, with a clear distinction between production and use phase. In this perspective, the value creation process was independent from its context. This is still true when services are considered in a product dominant logic, where users are (passively) served by the service personnel, who are fully in charge of the service quality. The responsibility for the design and the value creation process of such service is mostly, if not entirely, in the hands of the service provider. However, within business, marketing, communication and design studies, the last decades have seen a substantial shift from a product-centric perspective to a perspective which focuses on the interaction between the consumer and the service context (Service Dominant logic), in which value is defined by and co-created with

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

The role of design in innovation processes is a trendy topic in current debates on business devel... more The role of design in innovation processes is a trendy topic in current debates on business development and competitiveness. Design activities and methods are to be adopted by firms and companies in order to fully exploit their potential and survive in a highly competitive globalized market. There is a great focus on the capability of design processes to integrate business and societal goals in the definition of new products, services, and instruments in response to the great challenges facing the contemporary world. Design has grown in appeal by identifying itself with a series of tools and codified processes and approaches, which manage to face complexity while cultivating an action/solution oriented approach (Scholl 1995). Nevertheless, design and innovation are multifaceted/manifold concepts that need to be explored and understood in their full spectrum: What do we consider innovation? How do innovation processes work? What design approaches better contribute to innovation

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

Cities embody an organisational climate (Jacobs 1969a) enabling and catalysing innovation and are... more Cities embody an organisational climate (Jacobs 1969a) enabling and catalysing innovation and are by nature innovation generative systems They are considered key environments for the emergence of innovative interactions and relationships: creative and innovative industries tend to localize in or in proximity of urban environments, thus taking advantage of shared knowledge and a density of specialised and potential customers, suppliers, designers, experts and workers to create new tools, technologies, methods, instruments, products, processes, policies and services (

This thesis focuses on the activation and design process of large-scale spatial development strat... more This thesis focuses on the activation and design process of large-scale spatial development strategies in collaborative environments. It especially explores the topic of instruments and procedures connected to these processes. On one hand, of those enabling the establishment of collaborative decision-making processes, and, on the other hand, of those supporting the shift, from a first abstract strategic frame, to the agreement on concrete actions and

use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you g... more use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.

City, Territory and Architecture, Feb 11, 2023

This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and in... more This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning to sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on the analysis of cultural initiatives in six European Cities, the study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses about their contribution to the inception and rooting of sustainability transition dynamics. As a result, the article proposes a set of analytical categories of enabling factors acting across niches and regimes. The same factors are then reinterpreted by referring to scaling mechanisms (scaling up, out and deep). The proposed analytical scheme seeks to offer a broader reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges related to sensing and interpreting urban sustainability transition pathways.

Springer eBooks, Oct 17, 2018

As already highlighted in previous chapters, changes taking place in socio-technical systems are ... more As already highlighted in previous chapters, changes taking place in socio-technical systems are described by several authors in different ways through different models. The model described by Grin et al. is strongly coherent with the cities as situated, space-based socio-technical systems and is focussed on the relation among three different components: niches, where innovation takes place for the most part of its maturity process; regimes, the framework of rules and resources that constrains the way things happen in the city; and finally (land)scape, the system of culture and values which produces regimes, the component which is the most stable, the slowest to change (Grin et al. 2010). Within this change model, innovation needs niches as protected spaces to be conceived of and nurtured: niches can allow the needed freedom in terms of behaviours, non-hierarchical relations, rules bending, etc., which makes room for creativity/design to shape novelties. For the most part, innovation is produced in niches and from there it finds its way to the higher levels (incremental/disruptive changes towards regimes in the framework of the scape). Nevertheless, this is not the only trigger for change. More effective are turbulences or perturbations taking place at the level of scapes; they activate change dynamics and mechanisms which may or may not intercept innovation processes (in the niches) depending on their preparedness in relation to the specific change. 1 High disturbances (shocks, disruptive changes, etc.) can open new "windows of opportunities" for regimes to act

City, Territory and Architecture

This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and in... more This article reports a first attempt to combine the analysis of socio-technical mechanisms and initiative-based learning to sense sustainability transition signals in cities. Relying on the analysis of cultural initiatives in six European Cities, the study identifies those factors that enabled social impact generation. It then formulates hypotheses about their contribution to the inception and rooting of sustainability transition dynamics. As a result, the article proposes a set of analytical categories of enabling factors acting across niches and regimes. The same factors are then reinterpreted by referring to scaling mechanisms (scaling up, out and deep). The proposed analytical scheme seeks to offer a broader reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges related to sensing and interpreting urban sustainability transition pathways.

Studia Informatica Universalis, 2019

Proceedings of the 58th ISOCARP World Planning Congress

Cultural interventions as drivers of wellbeing in cities. Insights from Valencia.

Geography, Innovation Capacity and the City, Oct 16, 2018

O4C Milan pilot's evaluation of the first O4C hackathon, held from 17th - 18th December 2016.... more O4C Milan pilot's evaluation of the first O4C hackathon, held from 17th - 18th December 2016. Compressed and PDF'd version of the full, anonymised PowerPoint slide deck.