Her talk was great. She was speaking about social innovation throught her projects and models from a very fresh and common-sense perspective.
'Design as a practice of amplifying, mapping and scaling (Ezio Manzini school of thought) is moving from material change to social change by making new connections between existing things. Social innovation explores and intervenes on the level of lifestyles. They build up social practices that can be considered as a living organism involving dynamic relations among ‘stuff’, images (ideals and conventions) and ‘skills’ (know-how, knowledge) (Social Practices Model). Everyday practices, objects or images have the potential to generate important information and understanding of our contemporary norms and values ...'
