This Research Line includes experiments concerning Social Innovation processes aimed at developing new services that enable users in various sectors of social and collective life. In particular, the Center has focused on topics such as Health-care, Social Inclusion, and Social Awareness.
Design at the Arts Light Point. In collaboration with Save the Children Italy, the project focuses on organizing and implementing training activities aimed at adolescents for the development of non-cognitive and attitudinal skills in the field of Design.
Design for Children. The Design for Children project, a Third Mission project in collaboration with Save the Children Italy, fights educational and material poverty in the Ostia Lido district. The project developed a comprehensive program of actions that included 8 design and technology workshops, an exhibition, and a national conference that showcased the alliance for Social Innovation.
D.Doc is an Erasmus+ Research project aimed at analyzing doctoral offerings in Design at a European level. Over two years of information collection from institutional pages, case study collection, and interviews, the project successfully produced an open educational resource with an interactive map of 943 identified doctoral courses. Partners included SDR, Loughborough University (UK), METU (Turkey), Aalto University (Norway), and the technology consultancy firm ATiT Information Technologies (Belgium).
Design Matters: Nurturing Inclusive and Innovative Design Research is an Erasmus+ (KA220-HED) project that aims to promote diversity, inclusion, and innovation in EU doctoral-level design research and education. It is structured around four specific objectives: 1. Define and design doctoral practices beyond binaries (gender, race, ability, and rural/urban); 2. Co-create innovative resources for diversity in doctoral design research; 3. Test and train for diversity in doctoral design research; 4. Communicate, disseminate, and engage for diversity in design research.
Easy Tour. As part of funding from MISE (Agreements for Innovation), the industrial research carried out in collaboration with Amarena S.r.l. aims to develop a digital platform (HUB) capable of acting as an intelligent aggregator of solutions for the cultural and tourist experience.