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Promoting mental health with innovative services
Cooperativa ITACA, Romano di Lombardia (BG)Associazione MinD, Torino
The workshop “Promoting mental health with innovative services”, is co-designed in collaboration with Cooperativa ITACA, Romano di Lombardia (BG) and Associazione MinD, a Turin-based association.
In a world increasingly subject to political, social and environmental changes, it is important to support the educational growth of adolescents, providing them with educational tools and innovative services that accompany them on a path of identity development, protecting their psychophysical well-being.
The Design Sprint dedicated to this E.T.S. is part of the new projects of the educational area for minors (11-18 years).
The challenge is to think of a new space for adolescents and young people, which can become a place of training (and not of care) for the psychological well-being and psychophysical health of adolescents.
The mission of a place focused not on critical issues, but on protective factors, offering pre-adolescents and adolescents opportunities for well-being, self-efficacy and empowerment.
The proposals can include interaction with digital tools, the creation of communication campaigns to intercept users; the creation of event formats as extra services to be provided in the space.
Design challenges
#1. Accessibility of space and offered services
Designing the accessibility of the space and its services through communication campaigns, digital tools, or digital and non-digital promotion strategies.
#2. Innovative space-related services
Designing innovative services that can support the development of specific life skills for adolescents and adults through a mix of physical and digital tools.
#3. Active community involvement
Designing ways to involve the community within the space, through the creation of event formats, extra services to be provided within the space, and communication campaigns aimed at reducing stigma surrounding mental health.
The participants
Giulia Barone
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Anna Veronica Bragazzi
Product and visual designer. Master’s Degree in Product and Service Design, NABA.
Chiara Breda
UX & Service designer. Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Digital and Interaction Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Andrea Cerrato
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Product Design, Politecnico di Torino.
Aline Di Campi
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Systemic Design, Politecnico di Torino.
Marco Finardi
Service Designer. Master’s Degree in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Irene Giorgetti
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Marion Josserand
UX and product Designer. Master’s Degree in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano and Master’s Degree in Industrial Design, ENSAV la Cambre, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Silvia Peluzzi
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Cristina Piazzo
Psychologist, she mainly works with adolescents in schools and communities. Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences, University of Turin and Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology, University of Turin.
Federica Polverari
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Social Design, NABA.
Elias Rosato
Service Designer. Master’s Degree in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Francesca Rota
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Interior Design, NABA.
Andrea Rovetta
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Integrated Product Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Nuria Valsells Vilalta
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Social Design, NABA.
Alessia Vannini
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Integrated Product Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Iris Verzì
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Product Service System Design, Politecnico di Milano.
Elisa Zerbinati
Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Management and Services Design, Università di Milano Bicocca.
Karen Zamitiz Bonilla Juarez
Architect. Student of the Master’s Degree Course in Social Design, NABA.
