This document summarizes a workshop on collaborative service and mobile communication design held in China. The workshop explored designing for sustainability and social innovation through field research, storytelling and six project concepts including connecting marginalized workers, supporting local agriculture, and carpooling. The workshop was a collaboration between Jiangnan University and Politecnico di Milano and brought together students, lecturers, and professors to discuss design questions and next steps.

1. Design for Sustainable & Harmonious Lifestyle
为可持续和和谐生活方式的设计
Jiangnan University 江南大学设计学院
& INDACO Design Department Politecnico di Milano
Chita08 WORKSHOP:
Collaborative Service & Mobile Comunication
协作服务与移动通信

3. Design & sustainability
The only certain thing that we know about the
future is that the current change must change
direction, it must find the way to sustainability.

4. Design Questions
how design can promote the grassroots social innovations
and diffused social enterprises?

5. Design process&team

6. Our keywords
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Communities
Networking
Daily wellness
Social respect
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Multiculturality
Open Culture
Mobility
Knowledge sharing

7. first: explore context
We knew very f thi
W k few things about Chi
b t China…

8. second: a way for storytelling
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create knowledge & awareness
about the local context

9. third: deep field research
discover China together!

10. the six projects
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MOM’S TALK

11. The service helps
marginalized migrant
workers to express
themselves through a virtual
platform of sharing , and
open to them pride and
equal opportunities
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in the cities

12. collect memories from places and
provide a new access to the ancient neighborhood
neighborhood.

13. facilitates the connection
and participative activities
between the pregnant
women, new mothers and
doctors
t facing the problems and
to f i th bl d
share the experiences
MOM’S TALK together.

14. a service of community
supporting agriculture,
agriculture
to match the needs of
organic foods from the
urban residents
and providers of small-
scale family food
producers in suburbs

15. p2p community based
on places, stories
places stories,
routes and sustainable
footprints of travels

16. concept is a particular
ti ti l
case of car pooling with
the local context in which
public transportation is
not enough and flexible
for the users of local
place.
place

17. Wuxi International Industrial Design Exhibition |
November 8th - 10th 2008
中国国际工业设计博览会

18. next steps…

19. http://chita.politecalab.org &
http://flickr.com/chitaworkshop

20. THANKS TO EVERYBODY:
STUDENTS: Huang Jianbo 黄剑波, Zhao Peng 赵彭, Zhao Ting 赵婷, Zhao Yunpeng 赵云
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鹏, Lu Ming 鹿鸣, Wang Zilin 王梓霖, Kang Yuan 康源, Wang Ningning 王宁宁, Gao
Yupeng 高寓鹏, Chen Jiaji 陈佳基, Wang Yushan 王玉珊, Mu Sinan 穆思难, Guan Yimai
关一脉, Hu Kai 胡凯, Zhang Huizhong 张慧忠, Liu Ying 刘莹, Ran Xiangfei 冉祥飞, Li Le
李乐, Yang Xiaoming 杨晓明, Ma Weizhe 马伟哲, Lou Ming 娄明, Zhang Shu 张庶, Li
Long 李隆, Tian Longbo 田龙伯 | LECTURERS: Miaosen Gong 巩淼森, Francesca
Valsecchi, Irina Maria Suteu, Joon Sang Baek, Chakrapipat Assawaboonyalert, Musstanser
Tinauli, Shen Jie 沈杰, Ming Cao 曹鸣, Liu Xing 刘星 | PROFESSOR Ezio Manzini
Zhao Bin 赵斌 free521521521@gmail.com
& Xu Jiang 许江 bearandwolf@126.com
project managers & coordinators |
francesca.valsecchi@polimi.it | miaosen.gong@mail.polimi.it