Resilience has become an important perspective when discussing how the systems, within which we live, will face oncoming changes. As services are an essential aspect of these systems, this work takes a look into what resilience means in a service context and how service can be used as a mean to enable resilience. The thesis focuses on community networks; local, non-hierarchical network topologies, with a community-owned infrastructure, that exhibits highly resilient behaviours and can be used to build resilience capabilities. To understand how a service design intervention might support community networks, the research focuses on exploring the challenges existing community networks face. This led to a collaborative process with Toronto Mesh, a community network from Canada. Over the span of 10 sessions, the question “How may service design facilitate building resilience in a nascent grassroots organization?” is explored. Two aspects in which contributions can be made were identified. A consistent, unified vision of the goals and future of the community network is necessary for maintaining development. Here, several tools are used throughout the sessions to attempt to build a shared vision. User engagement, across all stages, is vital for a community network. Therefore, several proposals are made to support community building and engagement at different stages. Regarding the question, a potential answer that emerges is that in order to support resilience building within a grassroots organizations, it is necessary to understand the general and contextual challenges and co-create approaches or tools to address them.
La resilienza è diventata una prospettiva importante quando si discute di come i sistemi, all’interno di qui viviamo, affronteranno i cambiamenti in arrivo. Poiché i servizi sono un aspetto fondamentale di questi sistemi, questo lavoro analizza il significato di resilienza in un contesto di servizi e come il service design può essere usato come strumento per abilitare la resilienza. La tesi si concentra sulle reti di comunità, topologie di rete locali, non gerarchiche, con un’infrastruttura di proprietà della comunità, che mostra comportamenti altamente resilienti e può essere utilizzata per costruire capacità di resilienza. Per capire come un intervento di Service Design possa supportare le reti di comunità, la ricerca si concentra sull’esplorazione delle sfide che queste reti già esistenti devono affrontare. Ciò ha portato a un processo di collaborazione con Toronto Mesh, una rete di comunità Canadese. Nell’arco di 10 sessioni, viene esplorata la domanda “Come può il service design facilitare la costruzione della resilienza in una nascente organizzazione di base? Sono stati identificati due aspetti in cui possono essere forniti contributi. Per mantenere lo sviluppo è necessaria una visione coerente e unificata degli obiettivi e del futuro della rete comunitaria. In questo caso, durante le sessioni vengono utilizzati diversi strumenti per tentare di costruire una visione condivisa. Il coinvolgimento degli utenti, in tutte le fasi, è vitale per una rete di comunità. Pertanto, vengono sviluppate diverse proposte per sostenere la costruzione e l’impegno della comunità in diverse fasi. Per quanto riguarda la domanda, una potenziale risposta che emerge è che per sostenere la costruzione della resilienza all’interno di un’organizzazione di base è necessario comprendere le sfide generali e contestuali e co-creare approcci o strumenti per affrontarle.
Enabling resilience in community networks. A service design perspective
SOKOLIKJ, MILOSH
2019/2020
Abstract
Resilience has become an important perspective when discussing how the systems, within which we live, will face oncoming changes. As services are an essential aspect of these systems, this work takes a look into what resilience means in a service context and how service can be used as a mean to enable resilience. The thesis focuses on community networks; local, non-hierarchical network topologies, with a community-owned infrastructure, that exhibits highly resilient behaviours and can be used to build resilience capabilities. To understand how a service design intervention might support community networks, the research focuses on exploring the challenges existing community networks face. This led to a collaborative process with Toronto Mesh, a community network from Canada. Over the span of 10 sessions, the question “How may service design facilitate building resilience in a nascent grassroots organization?” is explored. Two aspects in which contributions can be made were identified. A consistent, unified vision of the goals and future of the community network is necessary for maintaining development. Here, several tools are used throughout the sessions to attempt to build a shared vision. User engagement, across all stages, is vital for a community network. Therefore, several proposals are made to support community building and engagement at different stages. Regarding the question, a potential answer that emerges is that in order to support resilience building within a grassroots organizations, it is necessary to understand the general and contextual challenges and co-create approaches or tools to address them.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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Descrizione: The thesis focuses on community networks; local, non-hierarchical network topologies, with a community-owned infrastructure, that exhibits highly resilient behaviours and can be used to build resilience capabilities. To understand how a service design intervention might support community networks, the research focuses on exploring the challenges existing community networks face. This led to a collaborative process with Toronto Mesh, a community network from Canada. Over the span of 10 sessions, the question “How may service design facilitate building resilience in a nascent grassroots organization?” is explored.
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