What will we be made of and what will the world be made of? Science
and technology are extending into design fields, modifying
materials and everything that surrounds us, even our bodies,
redefining on a perceptive level the boundary between things and
us. To identify the actual evolution of the relationship between
sciences, knowledge and design, in 2014 the Madec (Material Design
Culture Research Centre) of Politecnico di Milano, initiated a wide
debate with a series of contributions on innovation trajectories by
well-known scholars across many disciplines, researchers,
professionals and companies. This public debate, entitled 'Ideas
and the Matter' has opened up new initiatives for design today, new
ideas, and the definition of design approaches, contributing to the
development of a new methodology of creativity-driven material
innovation that, in a world full of opportunities but also problems
to be solved, helps design to play a role in 'giving new meanings',
through designing materials and objects with a critical approach.
This is a mission from which designers cannot abdicate, following
the success of "Design Thinking", which was an opening up to social
innovation challenges and achieving creative solutions beyond the
reach of conventional structure and method. At the same time, "Open
Innovation" is a go-to process stimulating ways of creating
positive change in production. This book is the compendium of
Madec's one-year research. The contributors to the book come from
many and diverse disciplines (medicine, biotechnology, engineering,
art, anthropology, architecture and design), by which design
thoughts are fed.
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