Abstract
The Digital Transformation of the European economy is crucial to preserve and boost international competitive advantages. Companies and public organizations need to integrate digital technologies into their processes, products, and services to benefit from the efficiency gains while remaining environmentally sustainable. A green transformation is indeed a crucial step to protect the health and wellbeing of citizens from environment-related risks. In this sense, digital technologies are enablers to reach the European Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Fostering experimentation with cutting-edge technologies to innovate the future of food and improve human and planet wellbeing is a challenge that provides companies with opportunities for growth and innovation. The ongoing transformations call for the implementation of new design processes (Meyer & Norman, 2019) and require new skills that will enable people to creatively envision the possible futures ahead. Design Futures (DF), implemented within the framework of the Digital Creativity for Digital Maturity (DC4DM) EU Project and built upon the integration of Design Thinking and Futures Thinking, is a human-centered model to empower the creative abilities useful to develop research and innovation projects that facilitate the digital and sustainable transition applied as best practice on the food field.
Keywords
Design Futures; Food as Medicine; Green transformation; Sustainable scenarios
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https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.521
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Canina, M.,and Monestier, E.(2023) Design Futures to support Sustainable Food practices, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.521
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The Digital Transformation of the European economy is crucial to preserve and boost international competitive advantages. Companies and public organizations need to integrate digital technologies into their processes, products, and services to benefit from the efficiency gains while remaining environmentally sustainable. A green transformation is indeed a crucial step to protect the health and wellbeing of citizens from environment-related risks. In this sense, digital technologies are enablers to reach the European Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Fostering experimentation with cutting-edge technologies to innovate the future of food and improve human and planet wellbeing is a challenge that provides companies with opportunities for growth and innovation. The ongoing transformations call for the implementation of new design processes (Meyer & Norman, 2019) and require new skills that will enable people to creatively envision the possible futures ahead. Design Futures (DF), implemented within the framework of the Digital Creativity for Digital Maturity (DC4DM) EU Project and built upon the integration of Design Thinking and Futures Thinking, is a human-centered model to empower the creative abilities useful to develop research and innovation projects that facilitate the digital and sustainable transition applied as best practice on the food field.