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Stefano Maffei Francesco Zurlo Politecnico di Milano Design and competence. Design process as the result of interactive relationships between key actors, within context–specific boundaries. Evidence from Italy. This paper will try to demonstrate that the presence of individual and collective learning related design (learning by doing and learning by using) in Italian systems generates a knowledge creation process based upon learning by interaction in which both tacit and explicit design processes and actors are involved. From this perspective, social and cultural competencies (locally materialised in territorial resources, actors' skills, community practices) increase through a situated process of interaction between actors. This process of interaction sets the development opportunities for the design domain and, in general, for possible innovation paths. ← back | download 28 Kb pg467.zip