E Z I O M A N Z I N I
Politecnico di Milano
INDACO - Unit of Research DIS-Design and Innovation for Sustainability
Via Durando 38/a 20158 Milano Italy
http://sustainable-everyday.net/manzini/
Full
professor in Industrial Design.
Degrees (laurea) in Engineering
(1965 -1969) and in Architecture (1969-1973) at the Politecnico di
Milano.
Honorary
Doctor of Fine Arts at The New School of New York (2006)
and at the Glodsmiths College, University of London (2008).
Academic activities
Principal responsibilities at the Milan Polytechnic:
Director
of Unit of Research Design and Innovation for Sustainability
Coordinator
of the Scientific Committee of the Master in Strategic Design
Coordinator
of the Doctorate in Design at the Politecnico di Milano
National Coordinator of the Italian Doctorates in Design
Other current academic activities:
Visiting lecturer at the
Tohoku University in Japan, at the Wuxi University in China
Visiting lecturer and at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro-COPPE in Brazil, co-founder of the DESIS group www.ltds.ufrj.br/desis/english in the same institution
Member of the Advisory Board of The Technical University of Eindhoven, in Netherlands
Fellow
at the Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society at the
University of Melbourne.
Scientific Coordinator of the International Design Research Conference “Changing the Change”, July 2008, in the frameworks of Torino World Design Capital 2008 (http://www.changingthechange.org)
Scientific Coordinator of the International Summer School “Designing Connected Places”, July 2008, in the frameworks of Torino World Design Capital 2008.
Main academic activities in the past years:
2000-2001,
Chair Professor of Design under the Distinguished Scholars Scheme at the
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in Hong Kong.
1983 -1995, scientific director, director and vice-president of Domus Academy, in Milan.
Main research interests
Strategic design, design for sustainability, and design for social innovation, with a focus on the scenario building and solution development.
Recent and current research activities
Strategies
towards the sustainable household, within the
Environment and Climate Programme of DG XI of the European Community (1998
– 2000).
The
role of Industrial Design in product innovation: the Italian design System,
from local resources to global markets,
for the Italian Ministry of University and of Scientific and Technological
Research (1999 - 2000)
“Strategic
design and Design for sustainability in China”, programme
of research promoted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2000-2001)
HiCS,
Highly Customerised Solutions, within
the Growth Programme of the European Community (2001- 2004)
EMUDE,
Emerging User Demands, within
the VI Framework Programme of the European Community (2004-2006)
Sole, vento
acqua, vegetazione e tecnologia avanzata quali matrici di un nuovo approccio
progettuale al territorio, architettura e disegno industriale, for
the Italian Ministry of University and of Scientific and Technological
Research (2005-2006)
SCORE
!, Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges,
within the VI Framework Programme of the European Community (2005 - 2007).
Lola,
Looking for likely alternatives, within
the framework of the EU CCN, Consumer Citizens Network (2005 - 2006)
CCSL,
Creative Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles,
a project promoted by
the Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles, within the United Nations 10 Year
Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production (usually
called Marrakech Process).
Awards
Compasso d’oro, 1987, for the research, and the book, The material of Invention.
Compasso
d’oro, 2000,
for the research The role of
Industrial Design in product innovation: the Italian design System, from
local resources to global markets.
International activities
Participation to international commissions as, in the last 5 years: Advisory Panel on the 5th Framework Programme "Competitive and Sustainable Growth" for DG XII of the European Commission; Scientific Panel of Italian the National Environmental Agency; Expert Panel for the “Futures Project”, a prospective research activity promoted by the European Joint Research Centre, IPTS, in Seville; Expert Group on “Competitive and Sustainable Production” for the Research Directorate-General of the European Commission, EDF Group Sustainable Development Panel.
Editorial
Board membership:
Journal of Industrial Ecology (USA), Journal for Sustainable Product Design
(UK); Design Philosophical Papers (AU); Journal
of Design Research (NL); ITU Journal. Architecture, Planning and Design
(TR).
National
activities
Scientific
committees: WWF-Italy; Legambiente; Associazione delle Città Slow
Recent exhibitions
Sustainable everyday, at La Triennale di Milano, 2003
Sustainable
Everyday Project, a
modular exhibition that, in different versions has been presented in Delhi
(2005), Florence (2005), Paris (2005), Bratislava (2005), Florence (2005);
Eindhoven (2005); Montreal (2006); Genova (2006); Tokyo (2006)
Web-site
Co-promoter,
with Francois Jegou, of Sustainable
Everyday Project (SEP):
a web platform dedicated to sustainable social innovation in everyday life,
with an open database of promising innovation cases (http://www.sustainable-everyday.net).
Publications
Main old publications:
E.
Manzini, La materia dell'invenzione
(The material of invention)
Arcadia Edizioni, 1986 (published in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese),
E.
Manzini,
Artefatti. Verso una nuova ecologia dell'ambiente artificiale (Artefacts, Towards a new
ecology of the artificial environment), Edizioni Domus Academy, 1990 (published
in French and Spanish)
E.
Manzini, M. Susani, Solid Side. The search for consistency in a changing world", V
+ K Publishing, Netherlands, 1995 (Published in English and Italian)
E. Manzini, C.
Vezzoli, Lo
sviluppo di prodotti sostenibili
(Sustainable products development)
, (Maggioli Editore, 1998)
Recent publications:
L.
Gutierrez, E. Manzini, V. Portefaix, HK Lab,
Map Book Publisher, HK 2002
E. Manzini, C.
Vezzoli, Product-service Systems and Sustainability. Opportunities for
Sustainable Solutions, UNEP Publisher, Paris, 2002
E.
Manzini, Para una transicion cultural hacia la sostenibilidad, in
AAVV, Observatorio de Analisis de Tendencias, Observatorio de la Fundacion
M. Botin n3, 2002
E.
Manzini, F. Jegou, Sustainable
everyday. Edizioni Ambiente,
Milano, 2003.
E.Manzini,
Context-based well-being and the
concept of regenerative solutions, in The Journal of Sustainable Product
design, Vol 2, N 3-4, 2004
E.Manzini,
Scenarios of sustainable well-being,
in Willis, A.M. (edited by) Design
Philosophy Papers One, D/E/S Publications, Ravensbourg, 2004
E.Manzini,
F.Jegou, Au-delà de l’hyperconsommation,
in
N. Aubert, (edited by), Individu
hypermoderne, Erès Editions, Paris, 2004
E. Manzini, El
mundo-como-podria-ser. Diseno y costruccion social del futuro, in
Cuadernos de disegno, n1, Madrid, 2004
E.
Manzini, Solution oriented
partnerships, in
E. Manzini, L. Collina, S. Evans, (edited by) Solution
oriented partnership, How to design industrialised sustainable solutions,
Cranfield University, 2004
E.
Manzini, F. Jegou, A. Meroni, Design
Plan, in E. Manzini, L.
Collina, S. Evans, (in edited by) "Solution
oriented partnership, How to design industrialised sustainable solutions"
Cranfield University, 2004
E.
Manzini, Introduction, in F. Jégou,
P. Joore (edited by) Food delivery
solutions, Cases of solution oriented partnership , Cranfield
University, 2004
P.Bertola,
E. Manzini (a cura di), Design
Pluriverso. Appunti di
fenomenologia del design, Polidesign
Edizioni, Milano, 2004
E.
Manzini, F.Jegou, Il design degli
scenari. Strumenti per la conversazione strategica, in P. Bertola, E.
Manzini, Design Multiverso. Appunti
di fenomenologia del design, Polidesign, Milano, 2004
E.
Manzini, Processi sociali di
apprendimento. Notes sul teso di Bruno Latour . M. Beretoldini (a cura
di) Epistemologia, Bruno Monadori, Milano 2004
Ezio
Manzini, Towards a cosmopolitan
localism , in Jan Verwijnen, Hanna Karkku . eds, (a cura di), Spark!
Design and locality, University of Arts and Design Helsinki, Helsinki, 2004
E.
Manzini, Multi-service centers.
E-governance for
the sustainable city. A scenario of enabling platforms for the everyday
life,
Tallarita, Garavelli, Lucarini (ed.) E-Governance, Eurospace,
Roma, 2004
E.
Manzini, Anticipazioni di mondi
possibili. Design, comunità creative e sostenibilità , 2+3 D,
Krakow, 2004
E.
Manzini, Un localismo cosmopolita,
in R. Fagnoni, P. Gambaro, C. Vannicola, Medesign_forme del Mediterraneo, Alinea Editrice, Firenze 2004
E.
Manzini, S. Vugliano, G. Cervetta, Valdambra:
risorse diffuse e cultura dell'ospitalità, in R. Fagnoni, P. Gambaro,
C. Vannicola, Medesign_forme del
Mediterrane", Alinea Editrice, Firenze 2004
E.
Manzini, Future, in E. van Hinte
ed. Eternally
yours,
010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2004
E. Manzini, Society
as a laboratory. Sustainability,
social innovation and new ideas on business,
Frontier Network Report,
Vol 1,Tokyo, 2005
E. Manzini, Enabling
solutions for creative communities. Social innovation and design for
sustainability, Design matters, n. 10, 2005
E.Manzini, Creative
Communities, in C. Brower, L. Dunlop (Eds.) Experiemental Eco-design, 2005
E. Manzini, F. Jégou, Communautés
créatrices : le design pour le développement durable, l’époque des
réseaux, in Valerie Guillaume (Ed.) D.Day, Editions du Centre Pompidou,
Paris, 2005
E. Manzini,
Creative
communities and enabling platforms. An introduction to a promising line of
research and actions on sustainable production and consumption. In
D. DoyleTaking responsibility, Hedmark University College Publishing,
Allkopi, Norvegia, 2005
Ezio Manzini, Agriculture, food and design: New Food Networks for a Distributed Economy, in Tailoring Biotechnologies, Novembre 2005
E.
Manzini, Creative Communities and Open Models: Lines of Research on
Governance for Sustainability, Garavelli, B., Lucarini, R., e-Government:
European Strategies Compared, Eurospace, Roma 2005
Leong B.D., Manzini,
E Design Vision : a
Sustainable Way of Living
in China,
Ningnan Publishing House Ltd., China 2006,
E.
Manzini, The scenario of the
multi-local society, in J. Chapman, N. Gant, Designers, Visionaries plus other stories, Erthscan, London,
2007
E.
Manzini, Design research for sustainable social innovation in: Michel R.
(edited by), Design
Research Now: Essays and Selected Projects,
Birkhäuser Basel, 2007
Manzini,
E., Meroni, A., Emerging User Demands
for Sustainable Solutions, EMUDE, in: Michel R. (edited by), Design
Research Now: Essays and Selected Projects,
Birkhäuser Basel, 2007
Vezzoli
C., Manzini E., Design
per la sostenibilità ambientale,
Zanichelli Editore, Bologna, 2007