CHITA08 WORKSHOP, Call for partners

Chita 08 is a collaboration workshop between Indaco department, Politecnico di milano (Italy) and School of Design, Jiangnan University (China). It’s a service design exercise as a teaching activity, and as a research activity, to investigate potentials of mobile communication technologies in supporting the collaborative services which are implicated in grassroots social innovation towards sustainable everyday life.

The workshop has been launched in July 1st and would last 5 months to proceed a complete project of service design till November 11th during the Wuxi International Industrial design Expo where the results of workshop will be presented and exhibited finally. During the first two weeks September, 5 Ph.D Candidate and researcher in Indaco (Polimi) will visit Jiangnan University as lecturers of workshop.

Chita 08 workshop is a great opportunity to exchange the teaching and researching experiences in service design and design for sustainability between two universities and will be a real step of design action towards sustainable society.

We are still looking for the suitable local partners for workshop as follows:
- Companies in the field of mobile communication technologies, who are supposed to be the clients of design projects and to provide the technological supports;
- Non Government Organizations(NGOs), Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and other Associations, who also could be clients of service design project and provide the local context;

For more information http://www.chita.politecalab.org/chita/

If any partners have interests, pls contact to:
Miaosen Gong
Dis-Indaco, Politecnico di Milano
Via Durando 38/A, 20158 Milano, Italy
Tel:+39 02 2399 5967
Cellphone:+39 3339425646
Fax: +39 02 2399 7274
miaosen.gong@gmail.com (miaosen.gong(a)gmail.com)
www.sustainable-everyday.net
www.chita.politecalab.org/chita/