Ezio Manzini's Enabling Solutions | Briefing and Background Documents | Responses from event attendees | Australian Enabling Solution Links
Ezio Manzini in Sydney with Enabling
Solutions
Professor Manzini recently presented his latest thoughts
on Enabling Solutions at the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
at UTS. Enabling Solutions are a continuation of Manzini's work on Product
Service Systems, Sustainable Solutions and Scenario Building. Enabling Solutions
are 'systems of products, services and organizational tools that enable individuals
or communities to achieve a result using at best their skills and abilities'.
In a workshop briefing session, Manzini introduced a methodology for designers
to come up with Super-Kits which involves seeking out current enabling practices,
decontextualising them and then amplifying them in a bottom-up approach to
social change. Design students are currently using this brief for Enabling
Solutions in a semester-long project in Interdisciplinary Design Studies at
UTS. Change Design aims to keep tabs on their process and results and will
have an Australian Enabling Solutions online project site up soon.
In the meantime, we have a small collection of responses, articles and papers to introduce readers to the concepts. We have also started a list of weblinks to Australian examples of potentially Enabling Solutions. If you would like to contribute your own response to Enabling Solutions or add examples to the list, please contact Tara Andrews. Please also visit our Ezio Manzini Pages.
Enabling Solutions Briefing Documents by
Ezio Manzini:
(These are all word documents) Abstract
| Enabling
Solutions & Sustainability | Annex:
Case Studies (International) | Workshop
Brief & Program
Background Documents
Thank you to Anne-Marie Willis of Design
Philosophy Papers for permission to publish these here.
Ezio Manzini, 'Scenarios of sustainable well-being' Design
Philosophy Papers Issue 1 2003 word
| pdf
Ezio Manzini & Francois Jegou, 'Sustainable everyday - scenarios, visions,
possible worlds' Design Philosophy Papers Issue 4 2003 word
| pdf
Responses from event attendees
Jan Lee Martin, 'Weaving
Designs in Time and Space to create a 'sustainable service society': Ezio
Manzini' Futures: the Newsletter of the Futures Foundation Vol.
9 No. 2 March 2004 p.5. Thank you to the Futures
Foundation for permission to publish this review.
Ashley Hegland has also provided us with a comprehensive account of the Enabling Solutions Briefing and Workshop help on March 12 2004: word or pdf
Australian Links to examples of potentially
Enabling Solutions:
CERES (the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental
Strategies) in Brunswick, Melbourne
http://www.ceres.org.au/about/about_content.html
LETS groups in Australia
http://www.lets.org.au/
Sydney Lets has just started - September 2003
http://www.lets.1337.as/sydney/
Alfalfa House (Organic Food Co-op)
http://www.alfalfahouse.org/
Work Ventures
Computer re-use program and Neighbourhood Technology Centres
http://www.workventures.com.au/
needaride.com.au (Car Pooling)
http://www.needaride.com.au
Australian Community Gardens Network
http://home.iprimus.com.au/russ000/garden/
NSW Community Builders: Case Studies
http://www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/stories/
Australian Community Foods
http://www.communityfoods.com.au/
Barter Card
http://www.bartercard.com.au/aboutus.htm
Micro Business Network
http://www.mbn.com.au/
Australian Farmers Markets Association
http://www.farmersmarkets.org.au/
The Bower Re-use and Repair Co-operative
http://home.pacific.net.au/~thebower/
TravelSmart Australia: Walking School Bus Program
http://www.travelsmart.gov.au/schools/schools2.html
Walking School Bus Article from ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/goulburnmurray/stories/s907537.htm
MeetUp.com (Australia)
http://www.meetup.com/locale/?country=1063&localeId=860&zip=&setLocale=0
Australasian Social Entrepreneurs Network
http://www.sen.org.au/
Lots of enabling solutions here.
Australia.Coop
http://www.australia.coop/
Especially see the case studies: http://www.australia.coop/cooperative_case_studies.htm
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Last Updated April 2004