Systemic Design & Policy Making: The Case of the Retrace Project

The systemic approach has been often applied to the realization of projects related to a single good, service or field of research. Whereas the systemic approach to problems has been nowadays recognized as the appropriate way to understand the complexity of an issue, in many cases projects that go in this direction face a barrier in the legislation that does not keep pace with the times or that does not supports these types of actions. This is the framework of the RETRACE project that aims to act at the higher level of policy making, promoting the use of Systemic Design as a methodology to develop regional policies able to support the transition of regions towards Circular Economy in different fields. The purpose is to face the problem starting precisely from the legislative side to reduce barriers and promote through new policies the development of project related to SD and CE