Descrizione del progetto
Costruire la capacità per l’innovazione abilitata dal design negli ambienti urbani
L’innovazione non è rilevante solo per la sostenibilità economica, ma anche per la vita sociale e culturale. Sebbene le città dispongano di un potenziale generativo intrinseco di innovazione, spesso non hanno un clima organizzativo concreto. Il progetto DESIGNSCAPES, finanziato dall’UE, intende far crescere l’innovazione abilitata dal design in Europa attraverso il sostegno finanziario alle iniziative generative di punta e agli sforzi di sviluppo delle capacità che interessano i portatori di interessi di vari settori. Il progetto adotterà un «approccio di governance solidale» e proporrà un quadro di valutazione olistica originale, promuovendo la convergenza tra ricerca, politica e pratica. I risultati attesi comprendono un’istantanea delle città, un catalogo europeo delle innovazioni abilitate dal design, moduli di formazione per facilitatori locali, documenti politici, pubblicazioni elettroniche e una conferenza finale.
Obiettivo
Innovation is relevant not only to economic sustainability but also to social and cultural life. Therefore, the creation of an organizational climate enabling and catalyzing innovation deserves special attention and needs to be explored from a sound operational perspective. Cities embed this organizational climate (Jacobs, 1969) and are by nature innovation generative systems.
It is within this perspective that the DESIGNSCAPES project aims to realize a better uptake, and further enhancement and upscaling, of Design enabled Innovation in Europe, through direct financial support to flagship and innovation generating initiatives as well as a huge capacity building effort targeting multiple stakeholder groups (citizens, researchers, practitioners, innovators and policy makers). In so doing, we will foster the linkages between research, policy and practice and contribute to making Europe a global leader in the domain.
The main features of the DESIGNSCAPES project are the following:
- It builds upon the generative potential of innovation in cities
- It leverages Design Thinking and Design Driven Innovation concepts as blueprints.
- It has a direct and purposeful focus on the scalability potential of Design enabled Innovation
- It proposes an original, holistic, evaluation, replication and impacts assessment framework.
- It makes use of a “supportive governance approach”.
Expected results include: a City Snap Shot tested in 10 countries and 12 cities, a EU Catalogue of Design enabled innovations, Training Modules for local facilitators and innovators, Policy Briefs, e-Publications and a final Conference. Approximately €1.5 million will distributed among 50+ new Design enabled initiatives as required by the H2020 call through 3 consecutive yearly rounds of a 3-staged Technical and Financial instrument akin to the US and NL SBIR program and the SME instrument of the EC.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
Argomento(i)
Invito a presentare proposte
H2020-SC6-CO-CREATION-2016-2017
Vedi altri progetti per questo bandoBando secondario
H2020-SC6-CO-CREATION-2016-3
Meccanismo di finanziamento
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinatore
50122 Firenze
Italia