The Design Friction Lab is a Multidisciplinary Research Lab and Design Studio at the intersection of science and the industry, of reality, innovation and vision. We constantly seek out the next big vision and innovative environmental solutions while challenging conventions and fostering reflexivity.

Camilo obtained his Ph.D. in design degree on the topic of Do-It-Yourself Materials as triggers of change at Politecnico di Milano. With his teaching activities, he devotes his research to local materials and product development, grassroots materials development, Transitions for circular economy, open-source technologies, DIY and sustainable product design.

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Agriculture
Anthropology and ethnology
Botanics
Conservation Biology
Education sciences
Mycology
Plant Sciences
Political sciences
Population Biology
Sociology of the Environment
Zoology
Taxonomy
Urban Ecology

How can an interdisciplinary team build an open source platform for DIYR Citizen Science, which can provide all the necessary tools to build objects and artefacts that help to produce biodiversity gain in urban and peripherical areas following Nature-Based Solution principles?

General Objective
Develop a theoretical framework and proper guidelines allowing the design and implementation of Nature-Based elements to be built with open-source technology that helps systematically increase biodiversity in urban areas through local citizen interventions.

Specific Objectives
The first objective is to highlight the possibilities and benefits that DIYR Citizen Science can provide when considered a possible practice in biodiversity gain.

The second objective is to find and define a proper set of guidelines, designs and blueprints that can be utilised by citizens who want to engage in actively increasing biodiversity through the act of making.

-diy citizen science, -community engagement, -grassroot urban development, -nature-based elements, -design for biodiversity gain, -open source, -democratisation of technology

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