MICS Made in Italy Circolare e Sostenibile is an extended partnership between universities, research centres and companies, financed by MUR thanks to funds provided by the European Union under the NextGenerationEU programme.

Dividing its research into eight thematic areas (spokes), the MICS is committed to circular, self-sufficient, self-regenerative, safe and sustainable Made in Italy design and production.

The Department of Design and its researchers work within the framework of Spoke 2 - 'Eco-design strategies: from materials to product-service systems (PSS)', which aims to develop and test a portfolio of eco-design strategies for PSS that support all their design phases.

Spoke 2 projects involving professors and researchers from the Department:

ECODeCK. ECO-Design Circular Knowledge

ECODeCK is one of the 12 projects developed by Spoke 2 and aims to develop eco-design strategies by collecting, analysing and testing design approaches, methods and tools for circular and sustainable transition.

The project focuses on the two key sectors of the MICS, fashion/textile and furniture, with the aim of developing a global and shared vision of design strategies to promote a sustainable and circular future of Made in Italy. The project also aims to test capacity-building initiatives and pilots to address the different levels of sustainable transformation, through specific skills and targeted development strategies.

ECODeCK is a transversal initiative within Spoke 2, whose projects share the objective of developing new knowledge on approaches, methods and tools. By researching and archiving already existing materials on eco-design and circularity, it will support the development of the other 11 projects; at the same time, ECODeCK will benefit from the other researches by collecting and cataloguing their results, thus creating a circular system of implementation and development of knowledge.

To achieve these goals, ECODeCK comprises four main strategic actions:

Outcomes expected by the end of the first year:

Outputs expected by the end of the second year: