STS ITALIA Working Papers no. 1

The present volume brings together two contributions to the discussion that explore the transformations that co-production processes have brought about in important areas of design such as architecture and fashion. The first (‘Collective architecture?’), by Alvise Mattozzi and Fabio Maximilian Franz, examines in detail the role of the architect in the context of coproduction of a building.

The second (‘User and design innovation in fashion practices within urban collaborative spaces’), by Chiara Di Lodovico, analyzes the role of fab labs as places of co-production and digital fabrication in the context of the fashion system. Both texts elaborate on talks given by the authors at the seventh STS Italia conference (‘Technoscience from Below’), held in Padua, Italy, from 14-16 June 2018. Thus, they are further developments of a discussion that flourished on the basis of these and other papers presented at the conference track ‘From grassroots to citizen-centric innovation: the collective design of emerging innovation ecosystems’ that we convened.