DESIGN THINKING FOR A SMART INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM IN ALPINE SPACE

The DesAlps project celebrated its closure with an international event organized by the Lead Partner t2i Treviso at Spazi Bomben on February 11th 2020. The occasion offered an opportunity to listen to project insights, keynotes speeches by relevant experts and partners and companies’ experiences. The morning plenary session was inspired by the words of Marc Fonteijn, founder of the first Service Design Agency in the Netherlands and creator of the web community Service Design Show, and Guglielmo Apolloni, social entrepreneur and expert facilitator of the Platform Design Thinking toolkit for empowering the impact of ideas. In the afternoon the audience could attend three different workshops on diverse creative methodologies: Design Thinking, Emotion-Driven Design and Platform Design. Event proceedings can be found at this link.

What is apparently a closure can rather be considered a new beginning. In fact, thanks to the DesAlps project, t2i and project partners have activated a network of DT LAB, hotspots of competences on Design Thinking, which will remain open and act as reference points for anyone interested in deepening this methodology.

The transnational aspect, experienced during the project, will be maintained through the DesignThinkingLab community and in-person meetings of DTLAB coordinators, in the occasion of transnational events on design thinking methodology.