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02 Design and Community http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/archives/10 As designers, why are we interested in communities and so in participation to improve the qualities of a locality towards sustainability? The Design community has reflected upon the sustainability issue in the past years, why it is interested also in communityies now? For sure, the Design community has reflected upon sustainability, learning from successes and failures1. Now, we are at a point where we know that simply redesigning products (ecodesign) reducing materials number and quantity and proposing services (which are not so immaterial as we thought) it’s not enough to achieve sustainability. These attempts have brought to a completely opposite effect (rebound effect), an incredible growth of products and services on the market (and, as a consequence, a growth in the use of resources). Maybe it’s better to propose (and improve the diffusion of) sustainable lifestyles, based on sustainable and fair use of resources. Lifestyles that could be proposed by designers or companies, but already exist in the society, though they are 1. Manzini E., Jegou F. (2003)
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