11/03/2026
Expert Design Talks.
Shaping Relations Otherwise
🗓 March 17th, 2026 | 14:15
We’re excited to welcome Josina Vink for an online lecture exploring how service design can help rethink the relationships that shape our social and ecological systems.
Starting from the context of today’s interconnected global crises, the talk invites us to move beyond the idea that people, organizations, and systems exist separately. Drawing on relational perspectives from Sociology and Anthropology, the lecture introduces four principles of relationality in service design: how actors are formed through relationships, how service systems emerge from complex entanglements, how agency arises through interaction, and how change unfolds through ongoing processes of becoming.
The session will also discuss what these ideas mean in practice, offering reflections on how designers can engage differently with the systems and relationships they help shape.
💻 Online (Webex): https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/daniela.sangiorgi