PIANETA FRESCO sharing platform

There is a disconnection between contemporary Design and indigenous heritage in Peru that reflects on an unequal and environmentally unfriendly development of their endogenous communities.   

There are many studies that connect higher education to sustainable development. One of the primary objectives of endogenous development is to create appropriate educational systems that enable characters to interact effectively with resources and knowledge and support indigenous populations.

PIANETA FRESCO is a Design knowledge sharing platform  that geographically maps out data, contacts, activities and ongoing projects in the Peruvian territory to empower Peruvian universities to collaborate on SDG based on indiginuos knowledge.

The platform is designed to reduce the gap by mapping the activities of the different communities. In this way, indigenous knowledge could be identified and measured with specific data, leading to the reconstruction of a Peruvian Design identity with a stronger connection to the territory.

The Peruvian territory is full of functioning ecosystems and biodiversity threatened by an environmentally unfriendly development of their endogenous communities. In order to protect them, Design and Architectural Universities need to work in an integrated manner of interdisciplinary knowledge deeply rooted in the territory, including anthropology, culture, economics and environment. Nowadays interdisciplinary specialists are already working on site, monitoring and investigating indigenous populations under risk of contamination and deforestation, but they are hardly connected to the Design education system. This is reflected in architecture and design that not only disrupt habitats, but also come with high water and energy consumption rates, and unhealthy waste disposal practices.

PIANETA FRESCO is a Design knowledge sharing platform that geographically maps out interdisciplinary data, contacts, activities and ongoing projects in the Peruvian territory. By linking private and valuable community resources with students, professors and researchers, Pianeta Fresco supports and promotes SDG in the academic world. 

Presenting the data shared by users in an organized and structured manner (tag system) Pianeta Fresco seeks to:

• Map out the activities and practices of native communities that successfully manage ecosystems and promote indougenous knowledge
• Preserve indigenous knowledge and contribute to reconstructing Peruvian Design identities as cultural value
• Create a cross information system for interdisciplinary research and projects focusing Peruvian education system on SDG targets.
• Connect national and international practices that address the same disciplines or ecosystems enabling the replica of good models and improve financial funding resources

Design is a discipline that is connected with everyday life by nature and provides important information about culture, anthropology, environment, and economy. Throughout history, object design has shown us how humans learned to live with nature.

According to 2020 data from the Peruvian National Ministry of Culture, there are more than 120 Indigenous populations within the Peruvian territory, using 68 different languages. They live sustainably in their ecosystem but there is an increasing risk of contamination problems and deforestation in many of these communities. 

There are many studies that connect higher education to sustainable development. One of the primary objectives of endogenous development is to create appropriate educational systems that enable characters to interact effectively with resources and knowledge and support indigenous identity.

Pianeta fresco will connect indigenous knowledge to the education system and give the possibility to the many field professionals that are currently working on the Peruvian territory to share important and valuable information to be considered in the Design academic world. Creative solutions integrated with the peruvian territory will be produced and be given to the local communities, introducing better architectural and design solutions to increase the quality of life and local economic opportunities. 

This is why the solution will serve multiple characters:

Design students will learn to design taking into account indigenous knowledge and produce solutions oriented to equal and environmentally friendly development.

Field professionals will collaborate with Design professors and researchers to improve endogenous development using scientific and measurable data of the Peruvian territory and resources.

Local communities will receive sustainable solutions from the integrated team work of the education system and field professionals that are addressing SDG targets. 

Our problem, solution and our target population are aligned with the Challenge. Our solution uses technology and innovation to map indigenous knowledge and cross interdisciplinary disciplines (anthropology, culture, economics and environment) in order to improve the efficiency of the educational system. Reconstructing Design identity mapping native population activities with an open-source database platform enables to replicate good models, support communities, gain durable sources of funding and preserve cultural value.

Pianeta Fresco was born as a communication tool in 2021 as an improvement of 4 years teaching methodology  experience pointing to SDG goals in Peruvian Universities. The events impact more than 1000 of viewers and connect many professionals that are addressed to the same target putting  in evidence indigenous knowledge in the Design education system. Pianeta fresco wants to become more effective in the education system using technology with a knowledge sharing platform for scientific data. PF is With this application. We will start mapping one region of Peru: Madre de Dios

Pianeta Fresco is an Innovative solution because it highlights indegenous knowledge as the owner of Peruvian design identity, completely denied until now. Encourage the use of interdisciplinary disciplines deeply tied to the territory for Design and Architectural universities and impulse the relative connections between professors, students and researchers. PF platform will use a simplified interface already used and tested in completely other contests, to improve and speed user experience. 

The PIANETA FRESCO platform monitoring, evaluation, and reporting system will be designed to promote transparency and accountability. Three main types of reporting are envisioned: financial reporting, program monitoring of activities, outputs, and outcomes; and evaluation-related reporting. Where the  MIT SOLVE has standard procedures and tools, these will be used. 

· A Program Operational Manual (POM) will be developed to clarify the main principles and procedures of organization and implementation, including roles, functions, mutual relations and responsibilities of staff and partners involved in program execution. More concretely, PIANETA FRESCO POM is likely to include the following chapters: principles of cooperation; governance; staffing; communications; delivery operational procedures; monitoring and evaluation plan; website and outreach; fundraising principles and procedures; and administrative procedures (including updates to the manual and key timelines)

· Monitoring of activities, outputs and outcomes (“results”) will be guided by PIANETA FRESCO’s Theory of Change and Results Framework. It will include appropriate qualitative and quantitative data and will focus on both output and outcome indicators to ensure progress towards PIANETA FRESCO’s goals. 

· In addition to the continuous monitoring and reporting functions, a formative evaluation will be commissioned after one year of project implementation. The results of this evaluation are intended to inform strategic planning for PIANETA FRESCO and ensure that donors continue to fund effective activities.

To run the platform:

1 part-time workers

Our team is interdisciplinary: 

Italian Architect Elisa Giusti

Italian architect that has been working as a Architecture and Design professor in Lima, Perú for 5 years. 

Peruvian Architect ( Fiorella Pugliesi), Italian Philosopher ( Emanuele Coccia), Photographer (Celia Cueto) and Peruvian Environmental engineer ( Manolo Fernandez), Graphic Designer and Software developer (Francesco Guiducci).

Pianeta Fresco if it is scaled can have a really big impact and be expanded on other mapping typology and really improve sustainable development as a social sharing knowledge and activities. We believe we can apply share economy ideology to knowledge and education tools.

Big part of the Peruvian coast has  illegal fishing

Connecting Peruvian indiginuos knowledge and Design higher education to improve sustainable development of local endogenous communities.