Thursday, 30 September 2021 – Afternoon session
All times are CEST
Final plenary: Design, Innovation, Sustainability and the Urban dimension
Afternoon session: What role for Design in EU regional and urban Policy
Speakers meeting link: https://bit.ly/36uVRwF | Meeting attendants: Facebook live at https://www.facebook.com/designscapesproject/
- 14:30-14:45 Welcome and introduction
Session Chair – Ingrid Mulder, TU Delft - 14:45-15:45 Panel discussion
Paulo Alves, Smart Value Consulting, Porto
Grazia Concilio, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
Joe Cullen, Arcola Research, London
Jesse Marsh, Atelier Studio Associato, Palermo
Tomas Matraia, The Adwisers, Gdansk
Nicola Morelli, Aalborg University, Service Design Lab
Pau Rausell, eConcult, University of Valencia
Florian Schneider, NTNU Trondheim - 15:45-16:15 Q&A
- 16:15-16:30 Conclusions
Giorgio Costantino, European Commission, Designscapes Project Officer
Francesco Molinari, Designscapes Project Manager - 16:30 End
Our speakers
Giorgio Costantino is Project Adviser at the European Research Executive Agency (REA). With a background in Political Sciences and Economics, a strong interest in innovation and local development, Giorgio has worked in EU research since 2005. At REA Giorgio manages a portfolio of multidisciplinary actions dealing with socio-economic research, cultural heritage and digital transformation of public services.
Francesco Molinari is an international researcher and policy advisor with a 20-years working experience in R&D and innovation projects and programmes at European, national and regional levels – notably on such topics as eParticipation, eGovernment and Smart Cities. Formerly he has been engaged for about 12 years in territorial marketing and the delivery of financial services to SMEs – including support to EU grants access for their green and brown field investments. For 5 years he has served in a top managerial position at a middle-sized Municipality in Italy. He holds a track record of successful collaborations with local/regional authorities and ministries on such topics as Pre-Commercial Public Procurement, Living Labs and Smart Specialisation.
Grazia Concilio, Associate Professor at DAStU – Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of Politecnico di Milano – works on innovative processes in urban contexts, integrating urban planning, technological and digital innovation as a shared learning process. Scientific coordinator for POLIMI of the Periphèria, MyNeighborhood|MyCity (FP7), Open4Citizens, DESIGNSCAPES, Polivisu and MESOC (Horizon 2020 funded) projects and Coordinator of easyRights project also funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme.
Joe Cullen is Director of Arcola Research, UK and Professional Partner at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, UK. Previous roles include teaching and research work in social sciences at the Universities of Cambridge, Loughborough, Leeds, London Metropolitan and the UK Open University.
Jesse Marsh is an American residing in Italy for 45 years, first in Milan and since 1995 in Palermo. Formed in industrial design in the Milanese studio of Marco Zanuso, since the late 1980s he has been interested in issues related to information technologies, participating in more than 40 research and development projects financed by the European Union. From an early focus on technologies for learning and telework, he has later widened to issues related to local development, SMEs, e-commerce and, more recently, the relationship between information society and sustainable development, cultural diversity and democratic participation. In the past 15 years, Jesse has become one of the most active supporters of the Living Lab approach (co-design laboratories that combine technological innovation with the social one), through the Brussels based European network ENoLL.
Paulo Alves is a consultant and facilitator with a wider experience in entrepreneurship promotion, social Innovation, territorial planning and regenerative development, and has more than 20 years experience working with public authorities, non-profit orgs, companies and entrepreneurs on innovation and cooperation projects. He’s the founder and managing partner of Smart Value Consulting Lda, and has an education background in Economics, Marketing, Innovation, Service Design, Systems Change and Team Coaching.
Tomas Matraia is the CEO of the strategic advisory group The AdWisers www.theadwisers.com specialised in internationalisation, innovation, capacity building and assistance for the private and public sector. Having worked for more than 15 years within the United Nations, European Commission, Academia and the private sector, Tomas is a seasoned international policy expert and business negotiator, with a focus on Innovation, Partnership, Private Sector, Digitalisation, SDGs. He advanced the high-level policy dialogue between the EU and the rest of the world, including international ministerial agreements and designed and managed multimillion programmes, projects and facilitated strategic initiatives. His current efforts include re-inventing how innovation, investments, sustainability, climate change and development related challenges can be symbiotically applied to offer: new actionable and replicable models, evidence-based policies, business opportunities and social impact. Among his latest achievements is the strategy design and implementation of a pioneering project for USAID redefining the public-private model in the Covid-19 economy through the private sector mobilisation (VCs, BA, alternative funding, access to finance), catalytic capital and technical assistance. The project is an unprecedented USAID effort on EU territory, supporting innovative companies and startups. In 2020 he was appointed ad personam by the EU agency ENISA for cybersecurity to their prestigious Advisory Board.
Nicola Morelli is Professor at Aalborg University in Denmark. He has previously worked at RMIT University, in Australia and at Politecnico di Milano, where he also completed his PhD in Industrial Design.
He is coordinating the Service Design Lab, a research unit working on several research projects on service design. His research focuses on public services, social innovation and design policies. He has also published several articles on service design methodologies, social innovation and sustainability. He contributed as scientific coordinator or WP leader in several EU funded projects, such as Life 2.0, Open4Citizens My Neighbourhood, MUV2020, DESIGNSCAPES and easyRights.
Ingrid Mulder, PhD is an expert in transformative and social design. Her background in policy and organization sciences (MA, University of Tilburg) and behavior science (Ph.D., University of Twente) together with an early-stage research career anticipating future technologies impacting society within the national Top Technology Institute on Telematics has reinforced her ongoing transdisciplinary research addressing complex societal challenges at a systemic level. She has been (co-)principal investigator in a dozen of national and European projects, that share their focus on design methodology in relation to digital, social or urban innovation and established among others the European Network of Living Labs and the Designscapes capacity building program. Currently, as an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology and director of the Delft Design Lab Participatory City Making, she further builds design capacity in the public realm through local design experiments and developing methods and strategies for social sustainability and systemic change.
Pau Rausell is an economist and professor of the Department of Applied Economics. Director of the Research Area in Economics of Culture and Tourism (Econcult). He has published books and articles in specialized magazines and in the press on topics related to communication and culture. He regularly takes part in national and international seminars and conferences on topics such as creative cities, the relationship between culture, innovation and development and the economic impact of culture. Lead and/or partner in competitive national and European projects such as Interreg MED SOSTENUTO, CREATIVEMED, 3C4INCUBATORS, OPEN DOORS, or H2020 DESIGNSCAPES.
Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and curator. In his work he investigates relations of “imaginary property” and new divisions of labour within the cultural industries. As a filmmaker, he has been engaged in a wide range of processes to rethink impact and value of documentary practices across disciplines. Since 2013 he is Professor and since 2014 Head of the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Since 2019 he is Chair of the COST action “European Forum for Advanced Practices”.