Small, local, open and connected

As a matter of fact, it is easy to observe that lasting natural systems result from a multiplicity of largely independent systems and are based on a variety of living strategies.
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The result is that rigid, vertical organizational models that were dominant in industrialized society are melting into fluid and horizontal ones as new distributed forms of knowledge and decision-making become more common
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Products must be designed so that their production can be as near as possible to where they will be used (point of use production)
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The more a system is networked, the larger is its interface with society and the more the social side of innovation has to be considered

Ezio Manzini