Advanced design for circularity and sustainability: digital solutions to foster the transition of made in Italy

In recent years, numerous reflections have emerged on how design practices offer possible solutions to respond to the ecological transition. In this context, Advanced Design, considered as an anticipatory and multidimensional design approach, intersects with Transition Design, which focuses on the theory of change and the study of possible futures, to come up with a new profile of “Transitional Industrial Designer”, capable of incorporating the practices of mediation and anticipation in the sustainable and circular transition of industrial processes. This reflection currently finds a space for practical experimentation and theoretical exchange within an NRP- funded research program (MICS) and specifically in projects under one of its lines of intervention (Spoke 1), with the aim of creating new design models that consider the diversity of disciplinary approaches, the complexity of production chains and the heterogeneity of the actors involved, in order to arrive at affirming a principle of “Design Endless Responsibility”, where digital tools are agents of mediation and interaction.