A Social Project Model for the Design and Production of Sustainable Jewelry
摘要
The paper describes a social project model BENGEMS: JEWELS OF BINDING SEA developed both in the academic and commercial context from 2020 to 2024 and which involved 4 Training and Higher Education Institutes in the Italian Goldsmith and Jewelry Design sector, historic companies in the production of cameos and corals from Torre del Greco; educational institutes, gemological institutes, consortia. The project, linked to the cultural, material and human resources of the Italian territories involved, particularly in the Mediterranean area, structures a strategic co-design model that involves the University in a diachronic manner in the design phase and subsequently the other training institutes and companies in the creation of precious prototypes. The ecological process, which also uses natural and innovative artificial materials and processing waste, responds to the directives relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDGs 4 (Quality Education), 9 (Business, Innovation and Infrastructure), 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), 17 (Partnership for the Goals) and the themes of the New European Bauhaus.