Unit Circular Economy and International Cooperation
- Course
- Planet life design
- Study-unit Code
- A001949
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Paolo Polinori
- Teachers
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- Paolo Polinori
- Hours
- 48 ore - Paolo Polinori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Scienze umane, sociali, psicologiche ed economiche
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Lessons are in Italian. International and Erasmus students can attend the course. Teaching materials are available in English. Written and/or oral examinations can be made in English. Please, send a mail to the Lecturer to book an appointment in the first week of lessons.
- Contents
- The course focuses on the links between circular economy (CE), international cooperation (IC) and design. The contents of the course provide an understanding of these links from the point of view of the economic and social impact of the advanced design activity. In particular, products, services, innovative solutions (PSIS) oriented to quality of life and/or sustainability are evaluated ex ante focusing on their economic and social acceptability. The role of consumers/users/citizens (CUC) is crucial for the dissemination of PSIS implemented according to CE and IC principles. In particular, the theoretical and practical tools will be provided to assess the extent to which market demand (CUC) is able to financially support the PSIS designed both as prototypes and as final outputs. Furthermore, if market demand is not able to support the costs of these PSIS financially, it is possible to estimate the amount of public expenditure that may be necessary for their realization.
The contents of the course are divided into three levels.
First level: theory of the demand for goods with or without market, stated preferences method.
Second level: principles of CE and IC applied to the design of PSIS.
Third level: application of the first two levels with group work assignment (max 3 students) on the assessment of the economic and social acceptability of cases study. The third level includes:
a) literature review
b) construction of focus groups
c) definition of survey questionnaires and their method of administration
d) pre-test questionnaires and their evaluation
e) definition of the final questionnaire and its administration
f) data collection and final economic and social evaluation
g) public presentation of results achieved - Reference texts
- First level
Gemma Sirchia -a cura di- (2000) La valutazione economica dei beni culturali, Roma: Carocci.
Second level
Martin Charter -editor- (2019) Designing for the Circular Economy, London: Routledge
Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Jak Spencer -editors- (2021) Design for Global Challenges and Goals, London: Routledge
Third level
Materiale didattico fornito dal docente.
Lectures
Bigerna, S., Micheli, S., & Polinori, P. (2021). New generation acceptability towards durability and repairability of products: Circular economy in the era of the 4th industrial revolution. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 165, 120558.
Chiu, M. C., & Chu, C. H. (2012). Review of sustainable product design from life cycle perspectives. International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, 13(7), 1259-1272.
Bovea, M. D., & Pérez-Belis, V. (2012). A taxonomy of ecodesign tools for integrating environmental requirements into the product design process. Journal of Cleaner Production, 20(1), 61-71.
Van Tilburg, M., Lieven, T., Herrmann, A., & Townsend, C. (2015). Beyond “pink it and shrink it” perceived product gender, aesthetics, and product evaluation. Psychology & Marketing, 32(4), 422-437. - Educational objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide the theoretical and empirical tools to implement an economic and social evaluation of products, services and innovative solutions that refer to both the relationships among men and between men and earth. These tools make it possible to carry out an in-depth analysis in terms of welfare. This is possible thanks to the application of the stated preferences method, which is also applicable in the absence of markets and prices, given that this method allows to simulate a hypothetical market.
In this way it is possible to integrate economic and social evaluation with real needs, possibly also taking into account the different cultural views of peoples. An assessment that takes into account sustainability by referring to an economy that respects human rights, life and the earth.
Finally, the contribution of this course to the goal of multidisciplinary is twofold:
a) the contents are adaptable to all four areas of training
b) the tools are applicable to all design outputs. - Prerequisites
- No one
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows. a) lectures covering all the topics of the program and related exercises; b) watching films and documentaries related to the topics of the course; c) organization of seminars; d) group work for the realization of the final project
- Other information
- More info will be provided in class and made available on the platform moodle : https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/
- Learning verification modality
- The examination is divided into two parts.
Oral examination on the theoretical part: 40% of the final grade
Preparation and presentation of the project: 60% of the final grade. - Extended program
- First part
Consumer choices in the presence of prices
Marshallian and Hicksian demands
Monetary metrics
Exercises
Consumer choices in the absence of prices
Monetary metrics
Exercises
Welfare measures: comparative static analysis.
Exercises
Contingent valuation and selection experiments
Second part
Circular economy
Definition, principles, areas of application.
International cooperation
Definition, principles, areas of application.
Third part
Methods of literature review and summary of information collected
Structuring and management of focus groups
Methods of processing the information collected
Choice of interview technique and questionnaire structuring
Evaluation of the questionnaire and corrections
Final questionnaire structure and its administration
Collection and processing of information
Socio-economic assessment
Final report