Sublime

Ezio Manzini is a professor of industrial design at Politecnico di Milano and a thought leader on strategic design for sustainability. He breaks down the process of designing what he calls collaborative service systems into four critical design components: fluidity of use, replication, diversified access, and enhanced communications support.8 Manzi

The design world reinvents assumptions and recombines ideas to turn “What if?” and “How might we?” into “What we can do.” Design thinking will be critical in taking the world of Collaborative Consumption out of the realm of possibilities and into real workable solutions, solutions that fulfill our consumer whims, desires, and unarticulated needs, b

The global ‘Eco-City Movement’ and the work of eco-city pioneer Richard Register, who founded ‘Ecocity Builders’ in 1992, have helped to develop the ‘International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS)’.