20833 - TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
Department of Law
Course taught in English
Go to class group/s: 31
Course Director:
DAVIDE CHIARONI
DAVIDE CHIARONI
Mission & Content Summary
MISSION
The course aims at providing knowledge and understanding about sustainability-oriented de-sign and innovation as a process for designing and developing new products, processes, ser-vices, business models and systems, leveraging the use of new technologies through a human-centered perspective, contributing to the improvement of people and communities’ well-being while respecting the worlds’ natural resources and their regenerative capacity.
Students will understand the different dimensions and types of sustainability-oriented innova-tions and their drivers; they will understand the processes, the actors, the design tools, and the collaboration approaches to be used in sustainability-oriented innovation. The course, charac-terized by an active learning approach and the principles of the “hands-on” methodologies, will enable students to apply the relevant techniques and tools to design and develop sustain-able products, processes, services, business models and systems. Specific attention will be dedicated to design for sustainability approaches, including base of pyramid innovation, de-sign thinking, user centered innovation and social innovation. The course covers paradigmatic patterns in sustainability-oriented design and innovation and provides structured activities to experiment and absorb the skills and methodologies acquired in real cases through a project work developed in collaboration with partner companies.
CONTENT SUMMARY
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Topic |
Description |
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Basics of innovation management |
Innovation strategies, drivers, approaches and challenges |
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Design driven innovation |
The concept of product meaning; strategies of meaning innovation; differences with innovation models |
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Framing innovation for sustainability |
Different types of innovation for sustainability; drivers and challenges; business model innovation for sustainability; innovation process and key actors |
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Design methods for problem formulation |
Cognitive processes at the basis of idea generation: analogical reasoning; associative thinking; abductive reasoning; tools and principles to support creativity |
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Design models for sustainability |
Main concepts and principles of Design model for sustainability: from eco-design to systemic design for sustainability transition |
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Collaborative innovation for sustainability |
Co-design, key partners and stakeholders of innovation for sustainability; approaches to collaboration; sustainable business model and collaborative business modelling |
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From user-centred design to systemic design |
Design Thinking, Humanity-centred design, systemic design and the Mission Approach to systemic innovation; design idea generation methods. |
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Technology for sustainable innovation |
Techniques for innovation based on technology roadmapping; technology role in decoupling |
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the course student will be able to...
- Identify the main types of, and approaches to, different sustainability-oriented innovation and design.
- Interpret the societal and technology changes to be leveraged by companies in order to implement a sustainable innovation and design approach.
- Grasp the systemic and holistic dimensions of the sustainability-oriented innovation and design applied by real business.
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
At the end of the course student will be able to...
- Apply principles and tools to design new sustainable solutions and business models.
- Manage the entire process of sustainability-oriented innovation from vision generation to pre-competitive analysis.
- Assess the impact of the new solutions/business models according to the more relevant sustainability dimensions.
Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Guest speaker's talks (in class or in distance)
- Collaborative Works / Assignments
DETAILS
The classes will be held in-presence in the assigned classrooms on the Bocconi campus. Students are strongly encouraged to attend in-presence classes.
Assessment methods
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ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
In order to achieve the learning outcomes and measure their acquisition by students:
- Class attendance is strongly recommended; students are expected to actively participate in the case discussion. This aims to test the student’s ability to interact and think critically, applying the concepts presented throughout the course.
- A project work will be developed to assess the ability to apply constructs and design tools and to manage the overall design/innovation process to design/redesign a new solutions/business models characterized by higher sustainability degrees.
Teaching materials
ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS
The materials of the course consist of:
- Course Slides.
- Collection of articles.
- Template and canvas for Project work development.
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