Good for Good. Designing Packaging in the Era of Deliveries

Abstract

Packaging is one of the classical field for the design activities where both functional, technological and communication features are faced. Design has considered packaging as a field where mainly experiment and develop the consumption engagement and attraction. In fact, the most part of the Design effort has been focused on new shapes, new aesthetics values, new uses: in sum on the product innovation. This paper reports a didactic experience where packaging has been using to training a “systemic planet-centric” approach, merging the following aspects: from social point of view, the phenomenon of self-production and consciousness consumption; from technological point of view, the improvement of new manufacturing; from economic point of view, the phenomenon of open-sourcing and the sharing-economy; from environmental point of view, the phenomenon of the zero-impact, zero-waste and zero-resources.