Responsibility through design, design through semiotics: The case of the Italian Electric Smart Meter: An attempt to remediate its non-responsibility

Alvise Mattozzi; Simone Marian

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Responsibility through design, design through semiotics: The case of the Italian Electric Smart Meter: An attempt to remediate its non-responsibility

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Responsibility through design, design through semiotics: The case of the Italian Electric Smart Meter: An attempt to remediate its non-responsibility

Alvise Mattozzi and Simone Marian

Design responsibility: Potentials and pitfalls; 8th Nordcode Seminar & Workshop 27-29 May 2009, pp.120-136

Kolding School of Design Press

2012

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https://hdl.handle.net/10863/616

Abstract

Research about theories and forms of expression in design, art and visual studies

Structural, Digital, Material: three-dimensional design and its processes, phenomena and results

Social dynamics, active citizenship and systems of solidarity

Languages and other forms of expression in a multicultural and multilingual society

Actor-network theory

Smart meter

Smart grid

Sustainability

Sustainability and participation

Responsibility

Science and technology studies

Scripts

Semiotics

We present an attempt to design a device for the visualisation of electrical consumption in order to remediate the way consumption is (not) taken into account by the new Smart Meters installed in basically all Italian households by ENEL, the Italian national electric utility company. If we assume that responsibility within design has to do with taking into account the effects generated by a certain artefact, then the artefact we present, designed by Simone Marian is an attempt to make a well-known household device more responsible first toward electrical consumption and, eventually, toward environmental issues related to CO2 emission. Our paper is furthermore an attempt to test the ability of semiotics to dispose responsible design.

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Title: Responsibility through design, design through semiotics: The case of the Italian Electric Smart Meter: An attempt to remediate its non-responsibility
Creators: Alvise Mattozzi
Simone Marian
Publication Details: Design responsibility: Potentials and pitfalls; 8th Nordcode Seminar & Workshop 27-29 May 2009, pp.120-136
Editor(s): Leerberg M [et al.]
ISBN: 978-87-90775-37-7
Publisher: Kolding School of Design Press
Kolding
Number of pages: 178
Identifiers: 978-87-90775-37-7
(UNIBZ)1787400
991005773605201241
Academic Unit: Faculty of Design and Art
Language: Italian
Resource Type: Book chapter
Author Names String: Mattozzi A, Marian S
Additional Description: srcEditors: Leerberg M [et al.]
unibz-area: Research about theories and forms of expression in design, art and visual studies;Structural, Digital, Material: three-dimensional design and its processes, phenomena and results;Social dynamics, active citizenship and systems of solidarity;Languages and other forms of expression in a multicultural and multilingual society
ERC: Social studies of science and technology, science, technology and innovation policies;Product design, ergonomics, man-machine interfaces
ERCCODE: SH2_11;PE8_11
MIURSSD: Sociologia dei processi culturali e comunicativi;Disegno industriale
MIURSSDCODE: SPS/08;ICAR/13

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