Design, When Everybody Designs av Ezio (Professor of Industrial Design Manzini, Milan Polytechnic) Director of CIRIS (the Interdepartmental Centre for

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<b>The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability.</b><p>In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subject, from enterprises to institutions, from communities to cities and regions, must define and enhance a <i>life project</i>. Sometimes these projects generate unprecedented solutions; sometimes they converge on common goals and realize larger transformations. As Ezio Manzini describes in this book, we are witnessing a wave of social innovations as these changes unfold—an expansive open co-design process in which new solutions are suggested and new meanings are created. </p><p>Manzini distinguishes between <i>diffuse design</i> (performed by everybody) and <i>expert design </i>(performed by those who have been trained as designers) and describes how they interact. He maps what design experts can do to trigger and support meaningful social changes, focusing on emerging forms of c