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3.1 towards social equity and cohesion vezzoli 11-12 (27)
1. course System Design for Sustainability
subject 3. Design for social equity and cohesion
learning resource 3.1
Towards social equity and cohesion
carlo vezzoli
politecnico di milano . INDACO dpt. . DIS . School of design . Italy
Learning Network on Sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
2. CONTENTS
. Sustainability: the socio-ethical dimension
. Socio-ethical Sustainability: a concern for all economies
. PSS: opportunities in emerging and low-income contexts
. Distributed Economies: system innovation coupling socio-ethical
with environmental sustainability
. Transition path and socio-technical experiment for self-standing
sustainable PSS diffusion
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
3. SUSTAINABILITY: THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION
EQUITY PRINCIPLE [UN, Johannesburg, 2002]
“every person, in a fair distribution of resources, has
a right to the same environmental space, i.e. to the
same availability of global natural resources”
(or better, to the same level of “satisfaction” that
can be achieved from these resources in different
ways)
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
4. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION: ACTIONS
ERADICATING POVERTY
international commitments
1996: Rome, FAO summit: 185 countries agreed and committed
to cut by half the number of undernourished people
2000: UN Millenium summit: signed by 191 member states the
Millenium decleration:
1. Eradicate poverty and by for 2015:
. reduce by half, form 1990 to 2015, the percentage of persons
living in extrerm poverty
. grant a full and productive employment and a dignitous job for
all, including women and yungseter
. reduce by half, form 1990 to 2015, the percentage of
undernourished persons
…
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
5. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION: ACTIONS
ERADICATING POVERTY
international commitments
2001: the world bank; UNFPA
. 80% of world population uses 20% of consumed natural
resources
. 1,1 billion people live on less than 1 US dollar a day
. 2,7 billion people (half the world) live on less than 2 US dollar
a day
. 1 billion children (1 in 2 children in the world) live in poverty
. 11 million children die every year before fifth birthday
. 18 million people a year (1/3 of deaths) are due to poverty
. 400 million have no access to safe water
. 800 million people are undernourished
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
6. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION: ACTIONS
ERADICATING POVERTY
international commitments
10.2006: Rome, conference Food and Agriculture Organization
(UN)
Jaques Diouf, general director FAO
“Instead of decreasing, the number of starving people is
increasing by 4 millions per year”
1996, World: 800 millions undernourished
2006, World: 854 millions undernourished
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
7. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION: ACTIONS
ERADICATING POVERTY
international commitments
11.2010: FAO
THE STATE OF THE FOOD INSECURITY IN THE WORLD
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
8. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIM.: (OTHER) ACTIONS
. [eradicating of poverty]
. promotion of principles and rules of democracy
. promotion of human rights and freedom
. achievement of peace and security
. access to information, training, employment
. respect for cultural diversity, regional identity
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
9. THE SOCIO-ETHICAL DIMENSION
[EU, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, 2006]
SOCIAL EQUITY AND COHESION:
“promotion of a democratic, socially inclusive,
cohesive, healthy, safe and just society with respect
for fundamental rights and cultural diversity that
creates equal opportunities and combats
discrimination in all its forms”
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
10. [SOCIAL EQUITY AND COHESION]
A CONCERN FOR ALL ECONOMIES
IT IS NOT JUST A MATTER FOR ENTERPRISES IN LOW-
INCOME OR EMERGING ECONOMIES
. in a global market companies in industrialised contexts
are interacting with stakeholders of their supply chain,
being in low-income and emerging countries
. even industrialised contexts are facing poverty and
problem with social cohesion
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
11. AN EMERGING MODEL AND ITS TOOLS
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR):
a management model in which the company
responsibility is extended to all the stakeholders,
aiming to optimise the economic value together
with social and environmental ones
. Social Accountability (SA8000)
. Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (GRI)
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
12. (PSS) SYSTEM INNOVATION:
OPPORTUNITY EVEN FOR LOW-INCOME AND
EMERGING CONTEXTS
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
13. … in terms of (social-ethical) sustainability a
question has been (UNEP, 2000-2002):
IS A SYSTEM INNOVATION APPROACH APPLICABLE
TO EMERGING/LOW-INCOME CONTEXTS TOO?
IF SO, COULD IT ALSO FACILITATE (TOGHETHER
WITH ECO-EFFICENCY) SOCIO-ETHICAL
ENHANCEMENT IN THESE CONTEXTS?
IF SO, WITH WHAT CHARACTERISTICS?
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
14. UNEP, 2002: SYSTEM INNOVATION AN OPPORTUNITY
EVEN FOR EMERGING AND
LOW-INCOME CONTEXTS
“a product-service system innovation
(approach) may act as a business
opportunity to facilitate the process
of a social-economical development
in an emerging and low-income
context - by jumping over the stage
characterised by individual
consumption/ownership of mass
produced goods - towards a
“satisfaction-based” and “low
resource-intensity” advanced service-
economy.”
free pdf at: http://www.unep.fr/scp/publications/details.asp?id=WEB/0081/PA
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
15. SYSTEM INNOVATION IN EMERGING AND
LOW-INCOME CONTEXTS:
EXAMPLES coupling socioethical +
environmental + economical sustainability
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
16. VIRTUAL STATION (OFFICES)
Fortaleza, Brasil
supply a full range of products, infrastructure (owned
by virtual station) and services for a
complete office. clients only pay for
the periods of use; spaces are
equipped with computers, printers,
scanners, access to internet, TV,
copiers etc; reception, personalised
phone answer, answering and
remittance of fax reception/transmiss.
it is environmentally sustainable
because infrastructure/equipment are shared (less
needed) and most efficient are used + it is socio-
economically sustainable because of no need for initial
investiment facilitate the set-up of small company.
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
17. SOLAR HOME KITS
Brasil
TSSFA company offers to Brasilian rural
people a solar home kits that include the
hardware to generate solar energy, the
installation service and products that use
the electricity, e.g. lighting and electrical
outlets. Customers sign a three-year
service contract (all of the tangible inputs
are owned by the provider).
it is environmentally sustainable because
it uses the solar energy + it is
socioethically sustainable because give to
poor people access to useful services + it
is economically sustainable because is a
business for TSSFA company.
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
18. WHAY SYSTEM INN. ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN
EMERGING AND LOW-INCOME CONTEXTS?
being more eco-efficient on a system level
> is “cheaper” to implement and to have access to, can
respond to unsatisfied demands more easily
focusing on a specific context of use
> it leads to local rather than global stakeholder
(competent) involvement
being more labour/relation intensive
> it leads to a rise in (local) employment and the diffusion
of skills
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
19. [assuming they PSS are applicable in all contexts]
WITH WHAT CHARACTERISTICS A SYSTEM
INNOVATION APPROACH COULD FACILITATE
-TOGHETHER WITH ECO-EFFICENCY - SOCIO-
ETHICAL ENHANCEMENT IN EMERGING/LOW-
INCOME CONTEXTS?
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
20. WHICH ARE THE PROMISING INNOVATION MODELS?
(socioethic + environmental + economic sustainability)
“STRONG” EMERGING HYPOTHESIS
DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIES:
“selective share of production distributed to regions where
activities are organized in the form of small scale, flexible units
that are synergistically connected with each other” [IIIEE,
SWEEDEN, 2006]
SOLIDARITY COOPERATIVE NETWORKS:
“networks in which units of production and consumption are
articulated in nodes able to self-propagate and self-feed in a
solidarity collaboration” [MANCE, BRASIL, 2003]
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
21. EXAMPLE OF DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIES:
DISTRIBUTED ENERGY GENERATION WITH
RENEWABLE RESOURCES (SUN, WIND, …)
Local Energy Network
distributed energy generation
with proper management and
technology for the use of
small-scale power generation
technologies located close to
the load being served
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
22. FOSSIL FUELS (OIL, COKE, …) + CENTRALISED
environmental un-sustainability: most of CO2
emissions > global warming + extraction pollution
socio-ethic un-sustainability: extraction, production,
distribution infrastructure, complex and CENTRALISED >
reduction of direct access potentiality to resources >
low power to individual over their own destiny >
widening of rich AND poor gap (inequality)
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
23. RENEWABLE RESOURCES (SUN, WIND, …) +
DISTRIBUTED
environmental sustainability: non-exhaustable +
greenhouse effect reduction + lower environmental cost
for extraction, transformation, distribution
socio-ethic sustainability: “distributed energy generation”
sun and hydrogen acquisition: local + with simple
processes > micro-plants installable/manageable by small
economic entity > user-producer > energetic micro
network building > global network of micro network>
access, self-sufficiency, power (and interdependency) to
individuals and local communities > resources
democratisation > inequality reduction
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
24. DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIES (not only sun/wind):
POTENTIAL CONVERGENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL
AND SOCIO-ETHICAL SUSTAINABILITY
use primary local, conservative, regenerative
resources (i.e. locally sustainable)
+
introduce distributed networks for the
extraction/production/use of such resources
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
25. DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIES: CHARACTERISTICS
ENTERPRISES/INITIATIVES:
LOCALLY-BASED: start from sustainable local
resources and needs, but could become open non-
local or global systems
+
NETWORK-STRUCTURED: gain critical mass and
potential by their connections in network
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy
26. WORKING HYPOTHESIS: DISTRIBUTED ECONOMIES
A PROMISING PSS CHARACTERISTIC IN EMERGING
AND LOW INCOME CONTEXTS (FOR ALL):
“a system innovation (PSS approach) may act as a business
opportunity to facilitate the process of a social equity and
economic development (in an emerging context) - by
jumping over the stage characterised by individual
consumption/ownership of mass produced goods - towards a
more advanced service-economy with a low resource-
intensity being “satisfaction-based”,
characterized by the development of local-based and
network-structured enterprises and initiatives, for a
sustainable re-globalisation process characterised by a
democratisation of access to resources, goods and services”.
LeNS book: “PSS design for Sustainability”,
Greenleaf, 2011 (to be published)]
Carlo Vezzoli AH-DESIGN, EU PROJECT
Politecnico di Milano / INDACO dept. / DIS / School of Design / Italy