[SPN-Discussion] May 6: Sustainability, The Exit Strategy

[Jen van der Meer]

Sustainability: The Exit Strategy
Small, local, open and connected
An Evening with Ezio Manzini
Where: The Cherry Lane Theater
38 Commerce Street
West Village, NY City
When: Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Tickets: $20 + $.99 fee.
Register http://ezioo2nyc.eventbrite.com/
Observing society as a whole and in all its contradictoriness, we can  
see that, alongside numerous unfortunately extremely worrying  
tendencies, signals are also emerging that indicate the existence of  
promising cases of social innovation: designing networks (creative  
communities and collaborative networks) the results of which can be  
considered as positive steps towards sustainability (and that, even if  
the moment they are minorities, have to linked to some major on-going  
trends, as: the demographic change, the growing environmental  
pressure, the evolution towards a knowledge-based network society).
What does it mean to design for the very peculiar kind of social  
innovations that is characterizing the contemporary society? What does  
it mean to steer designing networks towards more sustainable  
directions? What conceptual and practical tools are needed?
The emerging features, as the cases of socio-technical innovation on  
which they are based, are characterized by four keywords: small,  
local, open and connected.

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