Abstract
Storiepossibili was developed in a research frame with the aim of identifying a “new urban question”; that is to say, the emergence of new issues and problems of the contemporary urban; among them, social cohesion and sustainable development appear to be at risk and the focus of renewed attention. In such a framework, how can design help decision-makers and innovators to understand such unprecedented questions and react to support the potentiality of the new social settings? Storiepossibili is a “research within research” that answers this issue, developed by the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano. The Design discipline has often been used as a key lever in the transformation of urban places to respond to the rising needs of contemporary society. Our cities see the growing demand for places where people can cultivate a sense of wellbeing, share their daily life and get closer to other inhabitants. Storiepossibili is an open repository of positive social innovation practices, both in the micro and macro scale: stories of people, organizations and enterprises which trust in the chance of change as something possible, even viral.Keywords: design for social innovation, Social Network Analysis, scenario building, social trends, decision making.
Highlights
“All over the world, there is an increasing demand from all sides for more local involvement in the planning and management of the environment
The clusterisation of the cases, after the social network analysis (SNA), pointed out three typologies of relational models that were as considered as the main trends – shortly called Cities – for the scenario-building phase
The three Cities are not alternative, nor do they describe finite systems; rather, they are a condensation of micro-stories, conditions, and prerequisites that make each of them a coherent canvas of a possible viable and virtuous development:
Summary
“All over the world, there is an increasing demand from all sides for more local involvement in the planning and management of the environment. If we take the European Environment Agency model as a reference, where the concept of urban metabolism is described, “lifestyles” are considered as fundamental for urban systems. This is described by three scopes: “patterns”, as physical and morphologic features of the area; “drivers”, planning, management and economy decision-makers; and “lifestyles”. The features, the conditions for sustainable lifestyle development in the changing context of the territories means, to put individual behaviours in relation to the ones of complex and articulate entities, such as urban systems and regions that host them, and to verify mutual effects.
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