Most important publications: La materia dell'invenzione (The material of invention) Arcadia Edizioni, 1986 (published in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese), Artefatti. Verso una nuova ecologia dell'ambiente artificiale (Artefacts, Towards a new ecology of the artificial environment), Edizioni Domus Academy, 1990 (published in French and Spanish), Solid Side. The search for consistency in a changing world" co-author with Marco Susani, V + K Publishing, Netherlands, 1995 (Published in English and Italian), Lo sviluppo di prodotti sostenibili (Sustainable products development) co-author with Carlo Vezzoli (Maggioli Editore, 1998), HK Lab 2002, co-edited with Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portfaix, Map Book Publishers, Hong Kong, 2002.
2004
Briefing documents by Ezio Manzini for Enabling Solutions Workshop held in March 2004 (these are all Microsoft Word docs): Abstract | Enabling Solutions & Sustainability | Annex: Case Studies (International) | Workshop Brief & Program
2003
Ezio Manzini, 'Scenarios of sustainable well-being' Design Philosophy Papers Issue 1 2003 word | pdf (with kind permission to publish from DPP)
Ezio Manzini & Francois Jegou, 'Sustainable everyday - scenarios, visions, possible worlds' Design Philosophy Papers Issue 4 2003 word | pdf (with kind permission to publish from DPP)
Ezio Manzini & Francois Jegou, Sustainable Everyday - Scenarios of Urban Life, Edizioni Ambiente, Milan, 2003 (Book) Exhibition website
2002
Manzini, E., Vezzoli C., 'Product-Service Systems and Sustainability: Opportunities for Sustainable Solutions', UNEP, Paris, 2002. Available as PDF at UNEP Production and Consumption Website.
Gutierrez, L., Manzini, E., Portfaix, V., (editors) HK Lab 2002, Map Book Publishers, Hong Kong, 2002.
Manzini, E., 'A Chinese Network for Design for Sustainability', brochure and Chinese Network on Design for Sustainability Website, Hong Kong, 2002.
Manzini, E., 'Context-based well-being and the concept of regenerative solution. A conceptual framework for scenario building and sustainable solutions development', Journal of Sustainable Product Design, 2002. word | pdf
Manzini, E., 'Scenarios of sustainable ways of living. Global and local visions: the results of an international program of design workshops', Design Designers, Polidesign Publisher, Milan, 2002 . word | pdf
Manzini, E., 'Sustainable solutions. New business ideas and new ideas
on business', Encyclopaedia of Environmental Management Strategies,
Sangyo Chosa-kai, Tokyo, 2002 to be published. word
| pdf.
Manzini, E., 'New business ideas and new ideas on business', Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, 20-21 June 2002. Link to a report of this workshop presentation.
Manzini, E., 'Sustainability and Scenario Building. Scenarios of Sustainable Wellbeing and Sustainable Solutions Development', ITU Journal A: Architecture, Planning and Design, 2002.
Manzini, E., 'Hong Kong as a laboratory of the future', in Clark, H. editor, Special issue on Hong Kong, Design Issues, 2002.
Manzini, E., 'Fields for a strategic design research activity. Companies as system organisers and solutions providers', Rhone Alps Design Center Design magazine, to be published, 2002.
Manzini, E., 'Sustainability and Scenario Building', Conference at the Kent Institute of Arts and Design, 28 January 2002.
Manzini, E., 'Designing the future, Orienting scenarios and cultural prototypes', Conference on Design and Futures, Design Council, London, 28 January 2002.
Manzini, E., 'Scenarios and solutions: a catalogue of ideas', Conference at Alberta University, Edmonton, 11 March 2002.Manzini, E., 'Scenarios and strategic design', Conference at the IIT Design School, 13 March 2002.Manzini, E., 'Design and future. A strategic design approach', Conference at the IUAH, 25 April 2002.
2001
Bureau of European Designers' Associations (BEDA), 'The value of design to the European economy: Embracing sustainability: a European approach to design's contribution' The BEDA Communication Series Report 3 23 November 2001 http://www.beda.org/Report3.pdf [Visited 26 April 2004]. Contains an account of Ezio Manzini's presentation, 'Scenario building and sustainable solutions development: a new role for designers.'
Manzini, E., Vezzoli, C., Clark, G., 'Product-Service Systems: Using an Existing Concept as a New Approach to Sustainability', The Journal of Design Research Volume 1, Issue 2, 2001 Theme Issue: Sustainability. Full text.
Manzini, E., 'From Products to Services. Leapfrog: Short-Term Strategies for Sustainability', Metaphors for Change: Partnerships, Tools and Civic Action for Sustainability, ed. Penny Allen and David Gee, 2001 Greenleaf Publishing
Manzini, E., 'Design systems. Scenario building and solution providing in the network society', Proceedings of the ICSID 2001 Conference, Seoul, October 2001 and in ICSID News 5-6, 2001.
Manzini, E., Leong, B., 'Strategic Design and Design for Sustainability. A general overview and some consideration in the Chinese context', Proceedings of the Tsinghua 2001 China International Industrial Design Forum and Industrial Design Education Symposium, 3-5. 6.2001, Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Vezzoli, C., Manzini, E., 'Design for sustainability education-direction of development and current situation in Italy. The case of a network of educational centres and of a set advanced didactical support tools', Proceedings of the Tsinghua 2001 China International Industrial Design Forum and Industrial Design Education Symposium, 3-5. 6.2001, Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Manzini, E., 'Ideas of wellbeing. Beyond the rebound effect: Context of life and regenerative solutions', Proceedings of Towards sustainable Product Design Conference, Amsterdam, 29-30. 10.2001. October 2001 (paper to be published).
Manzini, E., Vezzoli, C., 'Product Service Systems
as a strategic design approach to sustainability. Examples taken from
the “Sustainable Innovation” Italian prize', Proceedings
of Towards sustainable Product Design Conference, Amsterdam, 29-30.
10.2001. October 2001 (paper to be published).
Manzini, E., 'Glossary for Solution Oriented Partnerships', the HiCS Project,
working paper, Milan 2001 (to be published).
Manzini, E., 'Sustainability and Scenario Building. Scenarios of Sustainable Wellbeing and Sustainable Solutions Development', Proceedings of Ecodesign 2001, Tokyo, December.
Manzini, E., 'Laboratorio Urbano. L'isola che non lo è più (An island no more)', Domus N 839, Special Issue on Hong Kong, July/ August 2001 pp.42-87.
Manzini, E., 'Made in Hong Kong?', Domus N 839, Special Issue on Hong Kong, July/ August 2001.
Manzini, E., 'Products-as-Systems, Network Society, Knowledge Economy. Some major challenges for design education', Journal of Wuxi University of Lught Industry, volume 2, n. 1/A May 2001.
2000
Manzini, E., 'Design Research: Reasons and Possibilities The Production of a Design Knowledge: taking time in the age of real-time' Design Plus Research Conference, 2000.
Manzini, E., Jégou, F., 'The construction of Design-Orienting Scenarios', Final Report, SusHouse Project, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2000. Available on CD ROM
Manzini E., 'Strategic Design for Sustainability', Proceedings of Seminar on Ecodesign, Waste Prevention and Minimisation, pubblicati da CER, Valencia, 2000 (pp1-6).
Manzini, E., 'Design as a strategic activity: firm identity, offer reconfiguration and local-global development', Proceedings of Intersections of and in design, Arrabida 1999, Lisbon, pubblicati da Reflez 1, 2000 (pp 86-87). See Experimenta Design
Manzini, E., 'Strategic Design for Sustainability', Ganis, M. (edited by), Design for Sustainability, QUT Publications, Brisbane, 1999-2000 (pp 49-56).
Manzini, E., 'The aesthetics of recycling is not in the product', Drabbe, N. (ed.), Refuse-reuse. Making the most of what we have, Cultural Connections, Utrecht, 1997 (Edited also as: Manzini E., L'esthetique du recyclage n'est pas dans le produit, Catalogo della mostra Re(f)use, 22 Settembre – 22 Ottobre 2000, Parigi - p 13).
Manzini E., 'Objects of thoughts', Things. East-West Design, August 2000, Hong Kong (pp 20-25).
1984 - 1999
Manzini, E., 'Strategic Design for Sustainability: Towards a New Mix of Products and Services', Ecodesign '99, Tokyo, Japan, February 1999. Restricted Access Document for IEEE Subscribers. Abstract is unrestricted
Manzini, E., 'Sustainable solutions', Seminar on Industrial Design for Environmental-friendly Technology Shanghai, 22 October1999 (pp 145 – 163).
Manzini, E., 'Strategic design for sustainable solutions', Seminar on Ecodesign, Waste Prevention, Minimisation, Valencia, 5 May 1999 (pp 1 – 6). Interview with Professor Ezio Manzini by Martin Charter. The Journal of Sustainable Product Design, Issue 6: July 1998 pp.54-56. *Nb. This link downloads the entire issue in pdf. so takes some time.
Manzini, E., Jégou, F., 'Scenarios for sustainable households', Greening of Industry Network Conference, Rome, Nov. 15-18. 1998.
Manzini, E., 'Leapfrog Strategies', Eternally
Yours: Visions On Product Endurance, ed. Ed van Hinte, Rotterdam : 010
Publishers, 1997 (out of print but now available in full text from the
Eternally Yours Wesite: Archives (see below)).
See also Eternally
Yours Foundation Website 'The
house to be', Interview with Professor Ezio Manzini by Benedetto Marzullo,
1997.
Manzini, E., 'Designing sustainability. Leapfrog: anticipations of a possible future' (Italian title:' Leapfrog - Progettare la sostenibilita'), Domus no.789, Jan.1997, pp.43-63.
Manzini, E., Vezzoli, C., 'Environmental sustainability and product-service design strategies', with paper for the International Expert Brainstorming Seminar, New Horizons in Cleaner Production, UNEP, Lund, 1997.
Manzini, E., 'Swimming against the tide: a quest for duration in societies whose only permanent feature is change. (Ephemeral Art)' UNESCO Courier Dec 1996 p6 (3). Available online for Infotrac subscribers.
Manzini, E., Capellini, M., 'Design for Disassembling as an Industrial Strategy: Two projects in Waste Minimization and Clean Production', Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Barcelona, 7 - 9 June 1995, published by Departament de Medi Ambient, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1996.
Manzini, E., 'Habitat and inhabitants: a joint evolution', Hoger, H., Rams, D. (eds.), Das Doppelte und Mehr, Lars Muller, Frankfurt/Main, 1996.
Manzini, E., Rocchi, S., 'Ecodesign and Waste Minimization. Production sector: Domestic appliances', Waste Minimization and Clean Production, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference; Barcelona, 7 - 9 June 1995, published by Departament de Medi Ambient, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1996.
Manzini, E., 'Prometheus of the Everyday: The Ecology of the Artificial and the Designer's Responsibility' Buchanan, Richard & Victor Margolin, Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1995.Book review by Peter L. Kantor
Manzini, E., Susani, M (eds.), The search for Consistency in a Changing World: The Solid Side, Projects and Proposals, V+K Publishing, The Netherlands, 1995.
'Products, Services and Relations for a Sustainable Society', Doors of Perception, 1995.
Manzini, E., 'Design, Environment and Social Quality', Design Renaissance, Conference Proceedings, ICSID, Glasgow, 1995.
Manzini, E., 'Green goods: Contribution to the Discussion', Ryden, E., Strhal, J. (eds.), Green Goods, Kretsloppsdelegationes, Stockholm, 1995.
Manzini, E., Pacenti, E., 'Sustainability as a "Scenario of Services"', Design Research, N°7, June 1995.
Manzini, E., 'Design in transition', Ecodesign, Vol.4, N°1, December 1995.
Manzini, E., 'Design, Environment and Social
Equality: From “existenzminimum” to “quality maximum”,
Design Issues, Vol. 10, Spring 1994.
Manzini, E., 'New Questions: The Fluidification of Matter, the Acceleration
of Time and Production of Meaning', Industrial Design: Reflection
of a Century, ed. Jocelyn de Noblet, Flammarion/ APCI, pp. 406-414,
1993.
Manzini, E., 'Design, environment and social quality' Design Renaissance: selected papers from the International Design Congress ed. J. Myerson, Glasgow, p.40, 1993.
Manzini, E., 'Caring about things'. Items vol.12, no.4 Nov.1993 pp.88-91. (English translation on separate unnumbered supplementary pages).
Manzini, E., 'Material scenario', Ottagono no.104 Sep.1992 pp.46-52.Manzini, E., 'The garden of designed objects', Metropolis vol.10, no.9 May 1991 pp.51-53
Manzini, E., 'End of the Mechanical Age', History of industrial design Volume 3: 1919 – 1990: The Dominion of Design, pp. 34 - 55 Milan, Electa, 1990-1991.
Manzini, E., 'Comment.' Design no.501 Sep.1990 p.9
Manzini, E., 'And of Plastics?' The Plastics Age: From Modernity to Postmodernity, ed. P. Sparke, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, pp. 132-143, 1990.
Manzini, E., 'Interactivity. Thoughts on the intelligent, sensitive and communicative object: from its material and spatial aspects to those relative to time', Ottagono no.88 Mar.1988 pp.74-83.
Manzini, E., Marzano, S., 'The electronic household appliance', Ottagono no.90 Sep.1988 pp.68-77.
Manzini, E., 'Virtual objects', Ottagono no.91 Dec.1988 pp.64-71.
Manzini, E., 'The Light Light chair for Alias' Domus no.686 Sep.1987 pp.105-107.
Manzini, E., 'The paths of design'. Tools
vol.3, no.5 Jun.1987 pp.22-25
An extract from Ezio Manzini's book The material of invention
[Milan: Arcadia Edizioni & Progretto Cultura Montedism, 1986].
Manzini, E., 'Objects and Their Skin', Ottagono, No. 87, December, pp. 62-71, 1987.
Manzini, E., The Material of Invention Milan, Arcadia, 1986.
Manzini, E., 'The invisible invasion', Modo, No. 67, 1984 (Reprinted June/August 2001, No. 213).