International Design Policy Panel 1
Design and economy - the link to innovation
Theme: Government perceptions of innovation are changing in line with transformations in how innovation is believed to happen. What therefore is design's emerging relationship to the new forms of innovation and how can design policies be shaped to anticipate these changes? For example, what forms of policy action could more effectively promote non-technological, user-centred innovation?
Chair:
Jean Schneider
Agence pour la promotion de la création industrielle (APCI), Paris
Jean Schneider has been working for the APCI (French Design support organisation) since 2001. He is in charge of most European activities of the Association, and has contributed to various European projects (Design for Future Needs, Admire/Design Management Europe). He co-ordinates the APCI's yearly conference on Design and innovation support policies in Europe, which is held regularly in January in Paris. Jean Schneider has been teaching design in various schools in France and in Europe and contributes to conferences and publications. His main areas of study are the social and cultural backgrounds of design and mass production, the ideologies of design and the theories of decorative arts. Besides running a small consulting activity, he is interested in any forward-looking venture
www.apci.asso.fr
International Design Policy Panel 2
Design and society - catalysing sustainable change
Theme: Design is becoming more widely acknowledged as a strategic tool to support the development of better services for communities and individuals, including better healthcare and better cities. Design can be a powerful catalyst for sustainable change. But, how can a wider range of key players in both the public and private sectors be persuaded to engage with design?
Chair:
Professor Ezio Manzini
Unit of Research DIS - Design and Innovation for Sustainability, Politecnico di Milano
Ezio Manzini is a full Professor in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano where he is Director of the Unit of Research Design and Innovation for Sustainability and coordinator of the Doctorate in Design. He is an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at The New School of New York and at the Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is National Coordinator of the Italian Doctorates in Design and a visiting lecturer at Universities in Brazil, China and Japan. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands and Fellow at the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Melbourne.
For Torino World Design Capital 2008, Ezio was the Scientific Coordinator of the International Summer School ‘Designing Connected Places'
His work is focused upon strategic design, service design, design for sustainability and on social innovation in everyday life. Major recent books include Sustainable Everyday, (2003); Design Vision : a Sustainable Way of Living in China (2006) and Collaborative services. Social innovation and design for sustainability, (2008).
www.sustainable-everyday.net
International Design Policy Panel 3
Design and complexity - confronting systemic global challenges
Theme: Considering the complexity of the global problems that face us, design polices enacted at the regional and national levels will not be enough to address the challenges ahead. In what way can nations work together to build networked design policy in order to optimise the chances of design's potential to contribute - assuming we understand what design's potential could be?
Chair:
Dr. Joachim H. Spangenberg
Vice Chair, SERI Germany e.V.
With a PhD in Economics, a BSc in Ecology and an MSc in Biology, Joachim H. Spangenberg's career history includes working in the world's largest biodiversity research project at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany. Known as ALARM, the project is developing scenarios to integrate issues of economic development, climate change, trade and invasions, and biodiversity. In his capacity as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he has contributed to the integration of climate change and economic scenarios; of risk and vulnerability assessments, and to assessing the opportunities and limits exposed by cost-benefit-analyses in the field of climate change.This work builds on earlier experience mainly in European research projects as Vice President of the Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Program Director at the Wuppertal Institute, and Research Fellow at the Institute for European Environmental Policy.
www.seri.at/
