"Milano once more"- A Resilient City; Designing services for the future of Milan.

Shivam Shrivastava
Nov 14, 2018
2 min read

Updated: Feb 2, 2019

Design and define the core structure and the offering of a service for future resilience on Milano city, with the help of circular economy concept.

Project timeline

A Resilient City; Product Service System Studio; A. Y. 2017/2018

Teacher: Prof.sa Anna Meroni, Prof.sa Stefana Broadbent, Prof.sa Daniela Selloni

Tutors: Luca Molinari, Martina Rossi

Created at

Scuola del Design - Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Project supported by

Project exhibited at

Festival dell’energia” at the Triennale di Milano

Project Detail andEarly stage design process

Milan is one of the world’s fashion capitals, a trendsetter for fashion, textiles & design. The traditional success factor of the Italian textile industry is the ability to combine innovation, fashion, creative style with production technologies. It developed its own approach focused on sobriety, simplicity and quality of fabric.

The finest quality and durability of Italian fibre is also adding value in the recycled furniture and interior design industry. Milan is especially renowned for its role within the ready-to-wear category of fashion. A highly industrialized sector with many opportunities to improve.

Despite having focused on the innovative production and creativity focused approach, the current system for producing, distributing, and using clothing operates in an almost completely linear way the ‘take-make-dispose’ model. A circular economy holds the promise of prosperity that is restorative and regenerative by design. It is an approach to economic development designed to benefit businesses, society, and the environment. It is not simply focused on using less. Instead, it aims to keep product, components and materials at their highest utility and value at all times.

Service development phase

This design concept phase is aimed at verifying and discussing the ideas resulted from the concept generation session within the team and stakeholders, as well as to re-define them according to the co-design feedback. It consist in organising a co-design sessions with invited participants.