The project will develop an experiment on process-product-strategies, with the aims of implementing the possibility of repair, replace, modify and integrate the different components of the product, through a design approach PSS, which provide forms of interaction and user participation, looking at the scenario of increasing connectivity of business processes of smart factory models.
The research will start from the lighting, which is a very representative sectors of the Made in Italy brand; a production that expresses a very high technical and expressive level, also for the strong orientation to innovation (technological, social, cultural) design driven.
Today, the research in the lighting sector is focused mainly on some approaches to sustainability: technological advancement in LED technologies, digitalization (Smart Lighting), the search for wellbeing for the individual (Human Centered Lighting). Advanced and complex technicalscientific knowledge and processes are already being applied, aimed at achieving objectives such as energy and material savings, the reduction of plastic parts within the assembled product; some critical aspects remain in the lighting supply chain, such as the production of electronic waste,
difficult to recycle. In fact, the current light sources are composed of a series of lighting and
electronic components consisting of various plastics and metals, responsible for a significant
production of waste, source of environmental pollution.
Today EU legislation on “Right to redress” (Regulation 341\/2022) requires companies to place
electronic products on the market while respecting the principle of durability and at the same
time providing repair instructions and spare parts, with the aim of reducing the environmental
impact of waste, especially electronic, and to counter the planned obsolescence of the product.
These are legislative acts that are gradually asserting consumer rights and corporate social
responsibility. The repair of lighting devices acts primarily on the lengthening of the life of the
product that entail obvious environmental benefits such as the reduction of the use of nonrenewable
resources, energy consumption, electronic waste. Equally significant can be the
benefits that derive from the production of new forms of social innovation that implement skills
and awareness in territorial contexts, development of new production practices and working
environments.
The project, based on a human centered design vision, therefore proposes as objectives the
development of methods and models of adaptive and competitive productions (systemic
innovation, functional flexibility, technological resilience) activating the care and participation of
an experienced user, oriented to learning and awareness of the impact in the environment of the
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