a NUTS Product Service System for 2037

"wedesign4 is a project born from the collaboration between Universities of Design and Architecture, distributed throughout the territory, to face the growing number of natural disasters. Through the establishment of the academic course wedesign4emergency based on the philosophy of Learning by Doing, students are trained and made aware of the climate emergency and asked to produce objects to deal with it.

The system-service is developed through an open source platform where products designed to respond effectively to emergency climate situations are offered. On this platform both the projects made by students and those of the makers are collected. Anyone can propose a personal project, which will be approved if it meets the wedesign4’s values. In addition, the product’s files for production and assembly are accessible to all independently.

The Twist Bench is an emblematic example of what wedesign4 wants to propose: it was conceived to help community regeneration in a post-earthquake emergency situation. The pieces that compose it are made with as little waste of material as possible and production takes place locally and immediately, thanks to the network of FabLabs affiliated with the platform. The assembly is simple and is done by the earthquake-affected communities: together they start building their daily lives again. "

Innovation Studio 2021-2022

NUTS
AKCALI ZEHRA NUR / FUGA ALICE / LUCIANI GABRIELE / PANCHER ANDREA / PIA BRUNO ALESSIA / WANG NANXI