Learning Environments Projects Overview
Learning Environments are immersive relational environments, community based, in which groups of individuals shape their own learning and design experience.
Find out more about our general approach in Learning Environments Intro. Here we’d like to introduce some examples of this work we do.
Ceramic Futures: From Poetry to Science Fiction
Ceramic Futures is an online/offline workshop between leading European design and art schools where groups of students were working locally offline and communicating all the process online in the Wordpress or Google Plus community. It is promoted by Confindustria Ceramica for Cersaie Fair where all the final works of students were exhibited.
Our approach to it is very design-fiction based, but with a lot tinkering and different tools developed. Learn more ;)
Master Relational Design
It is an itinerant hybrid Master of 1st Level. During one year students participate in didactic activities split into 4 weeks-long modules both online (in the community on Google+) and offline — having monthly workshops. The core of the course is its focus on relational aspects of design and community-based process.
Marco Lampugnani is a member of course’s scientific committee and as Raccoons we have curated (and will proceed) modules in all 3 editions of RD:
2014: Mobility and Vehicles — module in partnership with FIAT research center, focused on development of future scenarios in mobility
2015: Urban Thinking — in partnership with Polymnia Venezia and M9. Module was focused on how social innovation in retail can help to shape new M9 district in Mestre in connection with existing urban canvas.
2016: Public Space and Community — module based on our experience with #nevicata14, will focus on creation of innovative public spaces as commons and experimentation with new models of urban welfare.
Good Life Lab
A creative workshop promoted by Sanofi italia with Consorzo Poliedra — Politecnico di Milano. The goal of workshop was to focus on the development scenarios for Sanofi’s industrial site in Origgio which is going through transformation stage with changes in production facilities.
With our group of students we focused on strategic level of transformation giving suggestions to the company on how to pass the transition from drug-supplier to good life provider. This was shaped in the concept of I-Lab — special department to guarantee R&D based on design thinking and lean approaches.
