Design Harvests in short for ECSEL application
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The document details a project led by StudioTao, focused on creating sustainable communities in rural China through design interventions that balance urban and rural resources. It emphasizes collaboration between various stakeholders, including local farmers and researchers, to develop eco-friendly practices and promote heritage and local crafts. The initiative includes ongoing projects that utilize technology and participatory design to enhance rural-urban connections and foster sustainable services.
Design Harvests in short for ECSEL application
- 1. sustainable communities between city & countryside by StudioTAO of TEKTAO Urban Planning and Design, Shanghai project partners: DESIS Network Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability College of Design&Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai francesca valsecchi ECSEL 2012 Second Round Application February 2012, Shanghai
- 2. research based design intervention in the rural China, that aims to achieve more sustainable and fair social and economic balance between city and countryside. With our design practice we are experimenting at crossroads of academy and industry, and we involve stakeholder from both research and business fields in the social innovation challenges and impact.
- 3. bridging the city and the countryside through heritage, knowledge & resources exchange 38C 0M 100Y 0K 171R 208G 55B HEX #ABD037 60C 51M 51Y 20K 102R 103G 102B HEX #666766 We push alternative We involve local Who benefits: sustainable proposal communities in the proactive citizenship for contemporary urban design actions. that looks for local sprawl. We design immaterial values (food, We work to find communication, crafts, heritage artefacts) bottom-up sustainable services and experiences and local farmers, developing way contributing to craftsmen by “design thinking”, reconstruction of that produce with to integrate urban and knowledge identity heritage values, rural resources. by the villagers. social meaning and quality factors.
- 4. 3 ongoing main projects remraf agri-culture design mobile technology based crafts heritage food culture &Seeds Seedsproduction by by community services preservation Seeds Seeds by by by by Seeds by Two piece of land where Extended research Several bamboo approach with the local farmers and prototyping crafting workshops the concept and practice of technology based systems Seeds by around the islands by of organic based agriculture (mobile, internet of things) and some new crafts objects and explore to support co-designed direct farmers-citizens rural-urban connections wvith the artisans market space (ongoing research partnership with nokia) http://designentwines.tumblr.com/ (last harvest production: rice)
- 5. how we work We develop design concepts and prototypes through in-depth daily field work, field work interviews design and planning of services, communication strategy and tools, networking, small scale production. ongoing ethnography prototyping participatory co-design events
- 6. current distribution & management system research project outcomes dissemination outcoms marketspace taobao distribution online shop and market We recently opened internally our taobao shop for managed manage distribution. hand-made Not fully satisfied packaging by remote interactions. bamboo crafts city sustainable new partners markets and new projects public events We participate to We believe local based dissemination public events in city, entrepreneurship activity followed by rice farmers market, sustainability is as positive mechanisms fairs, and by this we grow for social innovation projects. senior research material the network of stakeholders. We continuosly look for members production new partnerships, of the team collaborators, direct contacts and investors & committed of ideas and money. knowledge stakeholders design production seeds We mainly distribute directly to people, within harvests network of interests where book to promote the cultural values of the products. international research funding city potential academic customers investments networks & partnership presence conferences and journals publications
- 7. team and organization structure business management 38C 0M 100Y 0K 171R 208G 55B HEX #ABD037 60C 51M 51Y 20K 102R 103G 102B project research design & management HEX #666766 team development lou yongqi studio tek studio tao professor architecture design cynthia xu project assistant department department francesca (myself ) research coord. employees 5+ serena service design project coord. & interaction diego research&design research projects joey lei research&design employees 15+ zhu mingjie urban planning projects designer jiang lina economic flows designer team structure and competences scientific support universities & international research network
- 8. business current impact outlines constraints evaluation in few words well known what we consider what we want limitations and positive indicator to achieve weackness point of success create organization increase of small scale economic participation to valuable market space self-indipendence events we organize, based on trust (size constraint) number of fellows create better organization market penetration a culture of the local structure among and distribution among the ciy research and efficiency of first community management experimental harvest of consumers departments production envision lack of structure in capacity to find a proactive idea market strategy next funding of market in which consumers foster entrepreneurs become users partnership
- 9. future works We have two main tasks for the near future. Our cooperation with the farmers will extend to small production in greenhouses; we aim to push one step forward the use of natural based greenhouses cultivation techniques experiment in the village among the villagers. Also, we will complete the design a collection of bamboo weaved objects; together with the farmers we would combine and share the knowledge of crafts expertise and design skills. bamboo crafts co-designed collection