Creative Communities. People inventing sustainable ways of living.

The book is about social innovation as a driver for sustainable technological and production innovation. Resulted from the European Research EMUDE (Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions), is a collection of a cases and essays Adopting a design perspective, it presents several case studies and their providers, the creative communities, where individuals and communities use existing resources in a creative, original way to bring about system innovation. The cases presented whether intentionally or by coincidence they propose solutions in which individual interests converge with those of society and the environment, creating conditions for a more satisfying use of resources. Because this restores meaning and value to everyday activities they look promising as a transition towards sustainability. The book has been among those opening the international debate around social innovation and design: in particular it created the basis for a first structured reflection around service innovation inspired by and fostering social innovation.