DESIGN POINT. AN INTEGRATED E-LEARNING & INDUSTRY 4.0 FASHION PLATFORM FROM ITALY TO ZAMBIA

The project focuses on a standard of sustainability and multiculturalism applied to the fashion industry 4.0. Culture has a major impact on reducing poverty and contributes to a development, which is primarily human, inclusive and fair. The result of the construction of a cultural and educational bridge, through E-learning platform between Italian design and the artisans of developing countries at each different season, or low income ones, such as Zambia and others in South America, Africa and Asia. Design Point (the name of the project) goes in the field on mission, and after a first period of meeting and research of the various indigenous skills, many of which are dying out, it studies together with local artisans and contact persons, how to develop a product fashion-textile-accessory combining the host country’s traditional craftsmanship with the well known Italian design and savoir-faire on E-learning platform to study and Industry 4.0 skills to create and sell new collections. A cooperation very functional to bilateral development, that can count on a partner which in this dynamic at the end turns into an instrument: Technology. Acknowledging fashion’s potential, as cultural activity, to provide significant opportunities for decent work for men and women around the world. Now it is possible thanks to remote education and work, to recover a research difference gap of decades of years. Nothing about them without them, an exchange of know-how and know-why, whose reactivation generates in the local populations a sense of self sufficiency, deriving from the direct employment creation, business and training related to these recovered competencies and cultural resources. In addition to the inducement, generated by the international promotion of a positive image of the country that attracts investment and triggers tourism therefore commercial interest, compared to remote geographical areas mostly unknown or maybe known for the wrong reasons. Moreover, to overcome the lack of trade opportunities, the access to the international market is facilitated by a special agreement which allows the sale of ethical products resulting from this project, through one of the world’s first e-commerce platform, which ensures a transparent business process management. This activity has objective to oppose a welfarism that has proved so far to be inefficient. A goal of integrationial contamination, which promotes a cultural crossover, in which no identity is ever negotiated. Not charity, but serious work and cooperation with distance e-learning, the creation of an industry 4.0 fashion laboratory in Lusaka, the sale on e-commerce international platform. To promote custom-made fabrics, exclusive samples are created by locals and subsequently presented at the international Milan Fashion week, where orders are collected within a quantity compatible with the local production capacity and commissioned to the communities, to finally return to Italy, and be finished manually by Italian seam stresses. An ideal Laboratory of Nations, which permeates the dignity of work, as an indispensable element at any latitude, thanks to ICT. This mission statement is a voluntary declaration, whose uniqueness is revealed as a reflection of the designer’s personal multicultural DNA, translated into her signature style, as well as into a business model of sustainable technological development. These missions are officially supported from time to time by the various entities such as: Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Trade, Embassy cooperating with the coordination of the United Nations. The projects are structured by University San Raffaele Roma in consultation with local authorities and Foundations, so that there is always transparency and unity of purpose in achieving common and shared promotion and development objectives. A new business model and sustainable development on E-learning and Industry 4.0 platform made with collaborative innovation from Italy to Zambia in seven steps: Craftship recovery; Cultural Heritage as enabler and a driver of sustainable Development; Enhancing opportunities through knowledge transfer and exchanges on E-learning platform; Enterprise creation with Fashion Industry 4.0; Promotion, as Tourism and Commerce developer; Enduring International Trade Development with E-commerce Platform; Integrationist contamination by technology.