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Visualisation & Simulation
“…talking about sustainable transition, stakeholders are obsessed with what they may loose because they feel difficult to imagine what they may gain… Envisioning, visualising, showing in concrete terms ‘how life…
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Evidencing
EVIDENCING Evidencing are touch points of new product-service systems. They are material evidences of a service and by extension of this notion, they can also be a series of instantiations…
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Rapid prototyping
RAPID PROTOTYPING A tentative solution based on a mix of new artefacts, distant services providers, complex architecture of software application, etc, is simulated by part and with possibly already existing…
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Photo-stories
PHOTO-STORIES Photo-stories presenting a fiction through a series of scenes shoot in photography and used as comic stripe provide an accessible and engaging form of visualisation: users project themselves easily…
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Story-script
STORY-SCRIPT The script is the backbone of the narration, it points the key-moments of an interaction picturing both its overall meaning and the processes to achieve it. Story-scripts are in…
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Video-sketching
VIDEO-SKETCHING Video camera is used as a sketching tool in order to quickly visualise and communicate the interaction between a new product-service and potential users in context. The video style…
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Supports to Strategic conversation
“…when you pick-up an apple with the intention to eat it or to through it away, the same gesture is triggered by the activation of different zones of your brain:…
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Co-design lab
CO-DESIGN LAB Co-design sessions are based on creative integration of multiple activities: SDS co-design lab is an open space organised as a movie studio with ‘flying walls’ and video networks…
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Creative conversation workshop
CREATIVE CONVERSATION WORKSHOP Projects at a city scale involving multiple stakeholders or challenging a company and all its different department requires moments of creative exchange to converge towards a shared…
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Story-telling
STORY-TELLING Story-telling is at start the most simplest process: just tell the story! What will you do in that place? How will you use that device? What your day-to-day life…
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Participative investigation
…we look for what we call ‘friendly users’ which is to say, people assessing the new product-service but in a positive and friendly way, with empathy and willingness to overcome…
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ICON MAPPING
With help of icon-cards, stakeholders are encouraged to draw their daily patterns, explain their habits, and map the contexts of use and complex practices in which the usage of a…
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Sustainable procurement of the Rhône-Alpes Region
Immersion residence at Rhône-Alpes Regional Council to investigate public procurement processes and co-design a series of experimentations to fluidify green procurement and support the regional sustainable transition.
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Agenda 21 Saint-Gilles / Citizen participation
Adopt a Tree Handbook was designed with local population and Saint-Gilles municipality civil servants to engage citizens in taking greening actions in their streets in the framework of Agenda Iris…
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Agenda IRIS 21
A process of participative and projective self-assessment of Agenda 21 from Brussels municipalities and social centres in order to orient the local sustainable policy of the Ministry of Environment of…
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Co-designing Multi-level Governance Charter
How a Multi-level Governance Charter may encourage interaction and collaboration between governance levels throughout Europe?
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Agenda 21 France / Rio+20 : the future of Agendas 21
How can we (re)design local governance to facilitate local sustainable transformations?
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HUMAN CITIES 2012 / Reclaiming public space
How to reclaim public space ? How may citizen re-appropriate and seize public space for collective activities and creative interventions?
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Agenda 21Molenbeek / Citizen-walks
Participative organization of a series of citizens walks for the initial diagnosis phase of the new Agenda 21 process of the municipality of Molenbeek in the framework of Agenda Iris…
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Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 (SPREAD)
What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will a sustainable future mean for the way we live, move, and consume? How do we know if our lifestyles are sustainable or not?…
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Territoires en Résidences
How can we renovate the processes of action of public authorities, engage participation in public institutions and foster sustainable transition…
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City-Eco-Lab
Photo-stories developed with 6 families for the City-Eco-Lab exhibition in the 2008 Design Biennale to picture visitors how daily life could be in a more sustainable Saint-Etienne and engage towards…
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Creative Communities for Sustainable Lifestyles
Collection of cases of social innovation promising in terms of transition towards sustainable living with UNEP and the Swedish Task Force on Sustainable Lifestyles in Brazil, China, India and Africa.
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Global Survey on Sustainable Lifestyles
3 scenarios of sustainable living presented through 9 solution story-boards discussed randomly in the online survey promoted by UNEP to beyond 8000 youths worldwide.
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Nanoplat project
Development of a Platform for Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology in the European Consumer Market based on social computing tools. Projective scenarios simulating possible developments of nanotechnologies in food to stimulate…
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SEE/K Sustainable Everyday Exploration / Sustainable Everyday Enabling Kit
Comparative study of different local sustainable transformation processes through local micro-projects in Milan, Shanghai, Malmö, New-York, Bogota and France, UK, Brazil… and realisation of an enabling kit to support their…
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Cité du Design
Construction of a collective projection based on a story-telling process among the publics of the Cité du Design to define the future usages and functionalities of the new public institution.
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Human Cities Festival 2010
Design of street exhibition in Brussels, Milan and Ljubljana as part of the Human Cities Festival concluding a European research project on public space as a commons towards sustainable cities.
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Designing Household Energy Practices (DHEP)
Non-conference and hands-on workshop bringing together designers and academics working from different points of view on the question of cultural change of household practices in the daily use of energy.
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One Planet Mobility Cities
Users investigation and scenario building exercise with WWF, University and City of Malmö, Sweden to support systemic transition towards sustainable mobility in 5 European cities.
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LOLA Looking for Likely Alternatives
Fostering interests and involvement in education for sustainability and responsible living in national school curriculum: LOLA starts as a follow-up of our exploration of social innovations for sustainability.
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Laboratory for Innovative Usages and Practices (LUPI)
Definition process of a new laboratory focusing user-centred approaches together with the partners companies and institutions of the Cité du Design in Saint-Étienne, France
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A Guidebook for SEP Exhibition at Eco-Products 2006 in Tokyo
The book (in Japanese) includes in a first part a catalogue of ideas for a sustainable city developed by students during fifteen international workshops on the theme of “Sustainable solutions…
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“Strategies Towards the Sustainable Household: Scenarios slide show and Project Reports”
SusHouse is a European research project concerned with developing and evaluating scenarios for transitions to sustainable households. It focuses on ‘Shopping, Cooking and Eating’,’Clothing Care’ and ‘Shelter’.
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Design driven toolbox
This manual provides direction and support to those companies that want to compete on innovation. In particular, it is geared to those companies that want to make radical innovations that…
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The LOLA Brochure
This brochure introduces to the LOLA Toolkit. It gives an overview of the genesis, intentions and goals of the project as well as a panorama of possible implementations that could…
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Creative Communities
The book is about social innovation as a driver for sustainable technological and production innovation. Adopting a design perspective, it presents several case studies and their providers, the creative communities,…
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Sustainable everyday, scenarios of urban life
What might everyday life be like in a sustainable society? How do you take care of yourself and other people? How do you work, study, move around? How do you…
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Food Delivery Solutions
Food Delivery Solutions presents and discusses three proposed solutions for very specific needs: the needs of people with reduced access to food. These solutions have been developed adopting a particular…
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Solution Oriented Partnership
Solution Oriented Partnership is about the conception and development of solutions. More precisely: it is about industrialised, contextualised, sustainable solutions that are produced and delivered by networks of partners: the…
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Fields of work
Sectors we work in… Fields we work in are all connected with new and more sustainable ways of living. Actually, we list them to facilitate browsing in our catalogue of…
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scenario building
Scenarios as we intend them, are visions of the future together with concrete solutions definition that may lead from the current situation to this future vision… Scenario building is first…
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stakeholders engagement
The very projection process works as knowledge brokering facilitating mutual understanding: scenarios building allows stakeholders to look beyond their current interactions and direct interests, to share a common view of…
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Collaborative Services
This book presents the scenario of collaborative services with a range of solution examples, design guidelines and conceptual background on how design could support social innovations promising in terms of…
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local transformation process
Different local projects are designed in system so that they support and reinforce each other, generate synergies and allows to reach the momentum to change or start change at the…
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Network of partners
SDS is often collaborating with other professionals to complement competencies (sociology, urbanism, policy evaluation, behavioural science, etc.). We therefore have a close circle of partners & friends we enjoy working…
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La génération et l’articulation des idées de services
This booklet has been made from a paper titled: “La génération et l’articulation des idées de services” by François Jégou, in a book called “Design dei Servizi, Interazione, innovazione, collaborazione”…
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Developing a college as an open campus
This booklet has been made from a paper titled: “Developing a college as an open campus. Design-driven residences to foster innovation in public institutions” by François Jégou, Stéphane Vincent, Romain…
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Collaborative design sessions of objects proposing energy-saving practices: heating
This paper has been presented at the Multiple Ways conference in Lugano, Switzerland, 12-13 November 2009 and published in Multiple Ways to Design Research, Research cases that reshape the design…
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Collaborative design sessions of objects proposing energy-saving practices: lighting
This paper has been presented at the Multiple Ways conference in Lugano, Switzerland, 12-13 November 2009 and published in Multiple Ways to Design Research, Research cases that reshape the design…
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The future of deliberative processes on nanotechnology
This article has been published in 2010 by the European Commission in a publication called “Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies, Options for Framing Public Policies” edited by René von Schomberg…
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Collaborative projection of the macro-service Cité du Design
This booklet has been made from the chapter titled: “Collaborative projection of the macro-service Cité du Design” by François Jégou in a book called Design for services, edited by Anna…
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Residencies in public institutions supporting local transition to sustainable ways of living
This booklet has been made from the chapter titled: “Residencies in public institutions supporting local transition to sustainable ways of living” by François Jégou and Stéphane Vincent presented at the…
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Design for Social Innovation, mobility initiatives
This article has been presented at the the 2nd SCORE! Conference (Sustainable Consumption Research Exchange Network) in Brussels 10-11 March 2008 and published in the proceeding of the conference.
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Co-design & energy responsible practices / washing
This paper has been presented at the Sustainability in Design: NOW conference Bengalore, India 29th September – 1st October 2010
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Social innovations and regional acupuncture towards sustainability
This booklet has been made from a paper titled: “Social Innovation and regional acupuncture towards sustainability” by François Jégou presented at the Hunan Green Design conference in Zhuzhou and published…
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Sustainable transformation, acupuncture of residences
This article has been published in the Design and Creation journal of the Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China.
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new solution definition
Beyond classical new product definition, new ‘solution’ definition is a larger process envisioning complete new systems including products, services, policies and their related communication… + See more projects related to…
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new tool development
Approaching discontinuities through scenarios building and definition of new solutions requires very often to revisit the toolbox we use: we therefore tends to design new tools ad’hoc for each and…
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training for social change
Focusing new and more sustainable ways of living, the final output beyond new solutions definition is the effective change of the material culture in the daily living resulting in shifts…
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policy recommandations
The success of policies depends also from the way they are designed: how they interact with the material culture of products; if they contradict or complement themselves; how they are…
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Experimentation of new tools
When asked “what are the tools SDS is using, we tend to list some of our favourites… But most of the time we don’t have ready-to-use tools: we design our…
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EESC Design Eleven for Active Ageing and Intergenerational Solidarity
EESC DESIGN ELEVEN for Active ageing and Intergenerational solidarity – Updating elderly… EESC Design Eleven is a competition launched in November 2010 by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)…
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Innovation Futures workshop at LIFT 2011…
Innovation Futures workshop at LIFT 2011 – Innovating within innovations challenges… How is innovation changing and which challenges innovation will have to face in the coming future? INFU is an…
