EMUDE:

EMUDE (Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions) is a programme of activities funded by the European Commission, the aim of which is to explore the potential of social innovation as a driver for technological and production innovation, in view of sustainability.

To this end it seeks to shed more light on cases where subjects and communities use existing resources in an original way to bring about system innovation. From here, it intends to pinpoint the demand for products, services and solutions that such cases and communities express, and point to research lines that could lead to improved efficiency, accessibility and diffusion.

Emude has been promoted and developed by a Consortium of European universities and research centres. In order to identify a collection of promising cases it has set up a network of observers, known as Antennas, encompassing teams of researchers and students from 8 European design schools.
Consortium:
Politecnico di Milano, INDACO Department (Polimi) – co-ordinator
National Institute for Consumer Research (Sifo)
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
Strategic Design Scenarios (SDS)
Doors of Perception (Doors)
Philips Design (Philips International)
Joint Research Centre – Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS)
Central European University, Budapest Fundation (CEU)
Consumers International (CI)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP DTIE)

Antennas:
The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
The School of Design, University of Applied Science, Cologne
POLI.design (Consorzio del Politecnico di Milano), Milano
The University of Art and Design (UIAH), Helsinki
Innovation Center of Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
ENSCI Les Ateliers, Paris
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague
Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow