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The ‘Creative Citizens’ Experimentation (POLIMI DESIS Lab)

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The ‘Creative Citizens’ (www.cittadinicreativi.it) project occurred within a community of residents located in a particular neighbourhood of Milan (Zone 4). It consists of a set of codesign experiments that lasted for about five months in the spring of 2013, coordinated by the author under the auspices of the POLIMI DESIS Lab—Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano.

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Selloni, D. (2017). The ‘Creative Citizens’ Experimentation (POLIMI DESIS Lab). In: CoDesign for Public-Interest Services. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53243-1_5

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