Francesca Tosi

The collaborative economy involves many different fields and it is difficult to define what activities are comprised. General impact evidence is inconclusive. However, some of them address problems about indirect discriminations, labour security and inequalities, the lack of regulation. Considerations about ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ states are needed for services involved in shared consumption. The authors propose the ‘Sharing-Based Services’ (SBS) conceptual framework to study and analyse a set of services. In particular, this paper describes an analytical tool (I-SBS) comprising an approach and the activities to consider the aspects of the ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ in SBS. The series of design workshops to evaluate the tool has been described in detail. The analytical tool, the design results, and the process of design workshops are presented as the main results.

The activities based on collaboration and shared consumption are hard to classify and it is not possible to define a taxonomy. Also, in this field some evidence address racial discriminations, the lack of worker protections and a lack of regulations. The authors argue that considerations about 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' state are needed for services involved in sharing-based activities. In addition, the 'Sharing-Based Services' (SBS) conceptual framework is proposed to study and analyse services in sharing-based contexts. In particular, this paper describes the activities of a design workshop organised with the aim to open a discussion about the aspects of the 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' in SBS. An analytic toolkit ('Sharinc') was used with the aim to consider these aspects analysing the structure of a SBS. Finally, this paper presents the results of the workshop achieved by the usage of the toolkit and by participants' feedback.

Technological innovations offer many opportunities for design in the context of wearable computers and smart objects and their interaction with user and with ubiquitous computing systems. These technologies can be used to make new products and services designed to collect, increase and share information, knowledge, and emotion, through platforms, which support higher social awareness. If applied to the field of wellness, they can interact among each other, with the network and with the person, to drive and assist people, including socially vulnerable groups, towards an active and dynamic life, and they can become a means for monitoring the state of the user's wellbeing and health. The aim of the research was to use the strategies of Human Centred Design to identify innovative scenarios and solutions able to involve people in an increasingly active and healthy life, as a commitment towards oneself and as a social responsibility.

The text introduces the research paths of the Doctorate in Architecture, Design curriculum at the University of Florence.

This research aims to create a framework of tools and methods through which design can en¬hance the competitiveness of local firms enscribed in this territorial framework using as a star¬ting point the elements of identity and diversity that each territory expresses. This objective is part of a broad framework of research on the role of design in local production systems and consequently on the entire manufacturing sector (craftsmanship and industry) investigating at the same time the necessity to redefine the role of territories. The innovative character of the research lies in its attempt to take into consideration within a more general outlook the various elements, tangibile and intangibile, that make up the identity of a territory aiming at a multidisciplinary approach to the subject under consideration. The instruments which have been identified are relevant both to the design process and in product advertising and marketing