Research

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Massimo Menichinelli works with design research, practice, tools and culture on supporting collaborative processes within distributed systems with digital technologies, with the objective of implementing digital transformations for developing and implementing social innovations towards achieving sustainable transition. His research mainly applies to these four contexts:

  • Make: Industry 4.0 / 5.0, Digital Fabrication, Fab Labs & Makerspaces, Maker Movement, Crafts, Automatization, Platforms, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, ...
  • Food: FoodTech&AgTech, Urban Agriculture, Precision Agriculture, Open Source Agriculture, Food Design, ...
  • Care: Healthcare Products / Services, Community Care Initiatives, Patient Innovation, …
  • City: Design for Social Innovation, Design for City Making, Design for Government & Policy Making, Circular Economy, ...

Massimo Menichinelli’s research integrates digital and social innovations into a data / social design direction, based on open design through the open innovation it generates and implements, addressed with a open science approach.

The focus of this research is on the development meta-design approaches and their platforms , and how they support and influence the processes , networks , organizations and governance of projects and how these are implemented in social innovation and entrepreneurship . A special focus has been adopted on the Maker Movement and Fab Lab community as Massimo has been an active member of them for more of a decade.

Finally, this research considers the reciprocal impact and influence of such topics on the underlying dimensions of 1) Open Source / Peer-to-Peer / Diffuse, Decentralized, Distributed Systems ; 2) the Local dimension of territories connected through global networks ; 3) community-based collaborative ecosystems ; 4) sustainability / resilience / transition / regeneration.

See in the Publications section the publications related to each of these topics.