In the last decades, Design has increasingly faced complex social challenges. More generally, it is possible to remark that the object itself of the design process has constantly been upgraded, with main attention to the intangible sides rather than to the tangible ones, granting a renewed value to the experience generated by artifacts and places. Together, a decreased authorship has progressively turned into a diffuse participative design.
Indeed, Design Aesthetics has mainly dealt with product design and the related sensorial involvements, and no specific studies have so far included DSI. This research aims then to investigate also the aesthetic experience generated throughout sustainable and participative cases, stressing on the importance taken on by differential contributions in relation to the whole processes.