The benefits and the values that sport activities and the practice of certain sports in general can bring to a human being are multiples. It provides well-being promoting healthier lifestyles, improves fitness and weight objectives, serves as educational engine and in general is a great contributor for the growth of the body and the spirit. But together with these fundamental qualities, the role that sport activities can bring on a social level can be considered much more impactful. Its’ not a news in fact that sports represent a real and concrete Social Institution. Sport is considered as one of the major social activities by which culture is created and reinforced, that is able to teach the basic values of a society, empowering sense of belonging and meanwhile providing self-identification with others in certain group of entities or communities. Sport activity manifests the celebration of cultural diversity, able to promote social integration and social inclusion. These considerations can reach even higher meanings in terms of social impact whenever we fit them into social context that provides educational model and that can serve to the development of the future generations. Applying and using sport and sport programs for youths and young people can affect the generation of the communities of the future. This is topic of interest of new 2016-2020 National Fitness Plan that the Chinese President Xi, approved last 2016 June 23rd. China have always have a great tradition in sport practice. In China, sport as a social phenomenon and cultural practice has been extensively and intensely affected by the evolution of urban areas, especially if we consider that since the 1990s, the sports participation in cities has increased dramatically. The new National Fitness Plan has ambitious targets for national fitness levels and increased sports participation aiming to develop sport’s role and facilities starting from the schools, where students can train at sports and also receive a proper education. Sports-based programs in fact are intended to achieve positive changes in the communities in which they are working to increase participation, contribute to the quality of life, or assist in individual and community development, expanding opportunities for participation in sport and addressing broad issues of social inclusion. Universities represented since the beginning a valid environment where to build my research, as they host a variety of actors and complex social structures able to coexist in places like the Campuses, real social containers. Tongji University has been used as major research site in this Thesis work, as a fertile social environment where sport culture is already set as an institution, where cultures and knowledge collide and live together. I will apply the Product Service System Design (PSSD) approach and its constantly evolving methods and tools to understand users’ needs, build courage to envision new solutions and facilitate co-operation to make it happen. PSSD can be considered as the physical evidence of abstract concepts: the design of experiences, solutions and strategies means to design several different material or immaterial elements through which these concepts come into reality. Products, communication strategies, services, spaces are designed in an integrated way to offer comprehensive, ethical solutions to complex demands. The center of the PSSD is the people, who interact with all these multiple design components. The context of social sport experiences in Chinese Universities offers the possibility of developing a holistic, integrated process to design the system, through interdisciplinary methods and tools, developing new integrated solutions, implementing the communication strategy, designing the services and the interactions between the various stakeholders involved, as well as the products and the spaces where the encounters will take place. And leveraging one of the main principle of PSSD in building possibilities and projects able to generate sustainable business and social model through the power of collaboration, valuable partnerships and stakeholder inclusions, I decided to explore the idea of insert this work and practical project into a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy for a Multinational Corporate. I’m a designer, and by default I design for people. I had the chance to work for a while into the Design Team of a big Corporate in Shanghai during my internship period, so I asked myself, how can I leverage the resources and the values coming form the Private Sector to enable strong relationships with and within the Public ones, the Universities in this case, in order to design more immersive and powerful sport experiences and drive behavioral changes and sense of togetherness? The final project, prototyped and tested locally at Tongji university, aiming to be a new starting point for the creation of models aimed to generate new social sport experiences and environment on a larger scale. My thesis aims to be a model of service system that can be adapted and applied in other universities of Shanghai and in all China, with the potential of going then global. Furthermore, wants to stimulate the collaboration from multi-stakeholders in designing services for social and business innovations. Here is where the project of my thesis takes its strength: the encounter between theory and praxis, methods developed on field, studied and implemented through experiences, focusing on people and their interactions. The final aim is to improve social experiences around sport activities, for and with people, encouraging and empowering them in the creation of stronger and powerful communities, sharing together valuable social goals.
I benefici e le virtù che l’attività e la pratica sportiva in generale sono in grado di garantire ad un essere umano sono indubbiamente molteplici. L’attività sportiva è di fatti universalmente riconosciuta come promotrice di stili di vita sani, per il miglioramento delle proprie condizioni fisiche, servendo da motore educativo e ricreativo per la personale crescita del corpo e della mente. Tuttavia, insieme a queste indiscutibili qualità, il contributo che la pratica sportiva garantisce a livello sociale è estremamente d’impatto. Non è una novità di fatti che lo sport rappresenta una reale e concreta Istituzione Sociale. Lo sport è considerato come una delle attività sociali attraverso le quali costruire e tramandare cultura e che è in grado, nelle sue forme, di insegnare i valori basilari di una comunità, piuttosto che di un’intera società, sostenendo e rinforzando senso di appartenenza e allo stesso tempo garantendo la crescita e affermazione personale dei singoli all’interno di determinati gruppi o comunità. L’attività sportiva, dunque, celebra la diversità culturale, promuovendo integrazione sociale su più livelli. Queste considerazioni sono in grado di raggiungere significati ancora più concreti quando ovviamente contestualizzati in ambienti che di crescita sociale si occupano già, come i centri di educazione e le scuole, in grado di ottenere, attraverso lo sport stesso, modelli di istruzione utili allo sviluppo societario proiettato verso la costruzione delle generazioni future. Questo argomento ha interessato la stesura dell’ultimo National Fitness Plan elaborato dal governo Cinese lo scorso 23 Giugno 2016, con l’obiettivo di promuovere la partecipazione sportiva a livelli più ampi tra la popolazione nei prossimi quattro anni, concentrandosi in maniera attenta proprio sullo sviluppo di strutture e servizi adeguati in quei contesti che si occupano di educazione, dalle scuole alle università. Questo genere di programmi fondati sull’attività e l’educazione sportiva sono di fatti strutturati per il raggiungimento di obiettivi sociali più grandi, per garantire un sano sviluppo comunitario e personale, espandendo le opportunità di inclusione sociale attraverso la partecipazione sportiva stessa. Le Università hanno rappresentato sin dall’inizio un contesto valido all’interno del quale strutturare la mia ricerca, poiché vero contenitore sociale, dove una moltitudine di attori e di complesse strutture sociali, sono in grado di coesistere all’interno di ambienti definiti quali sono i Campus. La Tongji University è stato dunque il principale campo di ricerca attiva di questo elaborato di Tesi, quale fertile contesto sociale all’interno del quale la cultura sportiva è già riconosciuta come un’istituzione, dove culture e conoscenze diverse si incontrano e vivono assieme. Utilizzerò i metodi e gli strumenti di ricerca appartenenti al Product Service System Design (PSSD) per definire e comprendere i bisogni dei miei utenti, immaginando e strutturando per e con loro nuove ed efficaci soluzioni nei propri contesti di utilizzo. Il PSSD può essere considerato come la materializzazione fisica di concetti astratti: il design delle esperienze, di soluzioni e strategie che attraverso output fisici e non, permettono a questi concetti di manifestarsi con impatto nella realtà. Prodotti, strategie di comunicazione, servizi, spazi sono progettati ed integrati in modo da offrire soluzioni comprensibili ed etiche a necessità complesse. Il contesto delle esperienze sportive sociali nelle Università Cinesi garantisce la possibilità di sviluppare nuove soluzioni, incrementando la qualità delle strategie comunicative e progettando servizi e interazioni in grado di coinvolgere attivamente tutti gli stakeholders, così come tutti i prodotti e gli spazi dove questo incontro si manifesta. E sfruttando uno dei principi fondamentali del PSSD nel costruire possibilità e progetti in grado di generare modelli economici e sociali sostenibili, valorizzando concetti di collaborazione attiva da parte di tutti gli stakeholders e gli attori coinvolti, ho deciso di esplorare l’idea di inserire questo lavoro di ricerca e progettazione in una strategia di Corporate Social Responsibility per una compagnia Multinazionale. Ho avuto la possibilità di lavorare per un discreto periodo di tempo come membro del Design Team di una grande Corporate a Shanghai durante il mio periodo di internship e proprio durante questo periodo mi sono chiesto, come posso sfruttare le risorse e i valori provenienti dal Settore Privato per permettere la costruzione di legami e collaborazioni strutturate di questo con il Settore Pubblico, le Università in questo caso, con l’obiettivo di progettare esperienze più immersive e di valore, promuovendo un cambiamento sociale volto all’integrazione e all’affermazione di un più stretto senso di appartenenza? Il progetto finale, prototipato e testato localmente presso la Tongji University di Shanghai, vuole essere un nuovo punto di partenza per la creazione di modelli volti alla generazione di nuove esperienze sportive sociali su una scala più ampia. Il mio progetto di Tesi è un modello di PSS in grado di essere adattato e applicato in altri e diversi contesti Universitari a Shanghai e in Cina, con il potenziale obiettivo di di essere scalato a livello globale. In più vuole stimolare la collaborazione aperta di più stakeholders nella progettazione di servizi per un’innovazione che sia sociale ed economica. Questo di fatti rappresenta uno dei punti di forza del mio progetto: l’incontro tra la teoria e la pratica, di metodi sviluppati sul campo, studiati e implementati attraverso esperienze, concentrandosi sulle persone e sul livello e la qualità delle loro interazioni. L’obiettivo finale è di incrementare le esperienze sociali durante le attività sportive per e con le persone, incoraggiandole e integrandole attivamente nella creazione di comunità più forti e legate, condividendo insieme virtuosi obietti sociali.
UUS ! A PSS to uplift the social experiences around sport in Chinese universities
GUARINI, GIULIANO MODESTO
2016/2017
Abstract
The benefits and the values that sport activities and the practice of certain sports in general can bring to a human being are multiples. It provides well-being promoting healthier lifestyles, improves fitness and weight objectives, serves as educational engine and in general is a great contributor for the growth of the body and the spirit. But together with these fundamental qualities, the role that sport activities can bring on a social level can be considered much more impactful. Its’ not a news in fact that sports represent a real and concrete Social Institution. Sport is considered as one of the major social activities by which culture is created and reinforced, that is able to teach the basic values of a society, empowering sense of belonging and meanwhile providing self-identification with others in certain group of entities or communities. Sport activity manifests the celebration of cultural diversity, able to promote social integration and social inclusion. These considerations can reach even higher meanings in terms of social impact whenever we fit them into social context that provides educational model and that can serve to the development of the future generations. Applying and using sport and sport programs for youths and young people can affect the generation of the communities of the future. This is topic of interest of new 2016-2020 National Fitness Plan that the Chinese President Xi, approved last 2016 June 23rd. China have always have a great tradition in sport practice. In China, sport as a social phenomenon and cultural practice has been extensively and intensely affected by the evolution of urban areas, especially if we consider that since the 1990s, the sports participation in cities has increased dramatically. The new National Fitness Plan has ambitious targets for national fitness levels and increased sports participation aiming to develop sport’s role and facilities starting from the schools, where students can train at sports and also receive a proper education. Sports-based programs in fact are intended to achieve positive changes in the communities in which they are working to increase participation, contribute to the quality of life, or assist in individual and community development, expanding opportunities for participation in sport and addressing broad issues of social inclusion. Universities represented since the beginning a valid environment where to build my research, as they host a variety of actors and complex social structures able to coexist in places like the Campuses, real social containers. Tongji University has been used as major research site in this Thesis work, as a fertile social environment where sport culture is already set as an institution, where cultures and knowledge collide and live together. I will apply the Product Service System Design (PSSD) approach and its constantly evolving methods and tools to understand users’ needs, build courage to envision new solutions and facilitate co-operation to make it happen. PSSD can be considered as the physical evidence of abstract concepts: the design of experiences, solutions and strategies means to design several different material or immaterial elements through which these concepts come into reality. Products, communication strategies, services, spaces are designed in an integrated way to offer comprehensive, ethical solutions to complex demands. The center of the PSSD is the people, who interact with all these multiple design components. The context of social sport experiences in Chinese Universities offers the possibility of developing a holistic, integrated process to design the system, through interdisciplinary methods and tools, developing new integrated solutions, implementing the communication strategy, designing the services and the interactions between the various stakeholders involved, as well as the products and the spaces where the encounters will take place. And leveraging one of the main principle of PSSD in building possibilities and projects able to generate sustainable business and social model through the power of collaboration, valuable partnerships and stakeholder inclusions, I decided to explore the idea of insert this work and practical project into a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy for a Multinational Corporate. I’m a designer, and by default I design for people. I had the chance to work for a while into the Design Team of a big Corporate in Shanghai during my internship period, so I asked myself, how can I leverage the resources and the values coming form the Private Sector to enable strong relationships with and within the Public ones, the Universities in this case, in order to design more immersive and powerful sport experiences and drive behavioral changes and sense of togetherness? The final project, prototyped and tested locally at Tongji university, aiming to be a new starting point for the creation of models aimed to generate new social sport experiences and environment on a larger scale. My thesis aims to be a model of service system that can be adapted and applied in other universities of Shanghai and in all China, with the potential of going then global. Furthermore, wants to stimulate the collaboration from multi-stakeholders in designing services for social and business innovations. Here is where the project of my thesis takes its strength: the encounter between theory and praxis, methods developed on field, studied and implemented through experiences, focusing on people and their interactions. The final aim is to improve social experiences around sport activities, for and with people, encouraging and empowering them in the creation of stronger and powerful communities, sharing together valuable social goals.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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