*“*If we could ask an AI to sketch the cover of a report on the future of education, it would probably be a classroom full of students in the process of learning “coding” or an apocalyptic world where there is no need for human workers, thanks to fully automated factories with robotics arms. This is what the AI could probably see if it would process all the pictures on the web and get across the last two industrial revolutions, two events that brought a rather positive narrative on the impact of digital technologies on human life: we will all become programmers or data
scientists who use algorithms, machines, and data to make almost anything. Today, we could speculate that this positive narrative is driving the agenda on the digital transformation in education in every economy in the world: digital skills development is seen as a solution to the high demand for professionals who know “how to code.” This narrative is rarely accompanied by reflections on how new technologies could reinforce social inequity or how their adoption can take place only if it is connected to a social change.”
Cangiano S. “Design for Future Skills. Three Case Studies on the Role of Design in Shaping the Narrative of Technology Education”, in Schierling L. (2022), Digital transformation in Design, Platinum Open Access, Amherst College Press, Amherst.(in press).
Main publications
CreativeApplications.net
Cangiano S., Fornari D., Seratoni A (eds.), (2015) Re-programmed art: an open manifesto, Johan&Levi, Monza
Graziano. V, Romano L., Cangiano S. Fragnito S., (eds.). (2019). Rebeling with Care. Commoning technlogies for health, WeMake, Milano.
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Banzi M., Cangiano S. & Fornari D. (eds.). (2016). Tecnologie aperte / Open Technologies. Monographic issue of Progetto Grafico, 30 (Autumn 2016).
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Cangiano S. Romano Z. (eds.), 2017. Digital Social Innovation Toolkit, DSI4EU, www.dsi4eu.github.io/toolkit
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Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Cangiano S., Open tools for data literacy development at school. A case of systemic and experience design approach to civic tech education, in: proceedings of MIS4TEL 2023 Proceedings, Guimarães (Portugal), Springer, 2023
Froehlich M., Kriegleder M., Cangiano S. Gaehwiler J., Jurt R., Blimpy - an artistic framework for creating a spatial augmented reality experience with helium blimps, in: proceedings of ISEA20 Sensient Technologies, Montreal, 2020.
Cangiano S., Loglio M., “Introducing Machine Learning in the Creative Communities: A Case Study Workshop”, in Allen R et al (eds.) (2018). Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art Proceedings. City University of Hong Kong. proceedings of Art Machines, 4th e 5th January 2019, ISCMA, Hong Kong
Cangiano S., Loglio M., Romano Z. (2017), The growth of digital social innovation in Europe. An Open Design approach to support innovation for the societal good, in: The Design Journal Volume 20, 2017 - Issue sup1: Design for Next: Proceedings of the 12th European Academy of Design Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, 12-14 April 2017, edited by Loredana Di Lucchio, Lorenzo Imbesi, Paul Atkinson, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon UK
Cangiano S., Romano z. (2019), Ease of repair as a design ideal. A reflection on how open source models can support longer lasting ownership of, and care for, technology, in: Repair Matters, special issue online journal Ephemera.org
Cangiano S., Fornari D. & Seratoni A. (2016). “Re-enacting and Open Sourcing as Methods for Experiencing Programmed Art Utopia”. In O. Tapio Lenio (ed.), ISEA2016 Hong Kong*. Cultural R>Evolution*. Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (pp. 250–252). Hong Kong: School of Creative Media.
Cangiano, S., Fornari, D. (2014), Products as platforms. A framework for designing open source interactive artifacts, in: Proceedings of DIS14 Designing Interactive Systems Conference Design, ACM New York, NY, USA, pp. 219-222
Cangiano S., Botta M., (2014), O of Open Design, design, prototype, document, share, in Ottagono, n. 266, pp.80-89