Demand for quality and design ideas competition: experimentation to discover good practices / Domanda di qualità e concorso di idee: una sperimentazione alla ricerca di buone pratiche

The ideas competition processis suggested as a solution thatmight contribute to an improvement inarchitectural quality. There have beennumerous experiences in Italy over thelast decade, but they have not alwaysproduced positive and concrete results.Although procedures of internationalstanding might refer to consolidatedguide-lines, in most cases, on the localscale, the level of attention is insufficientto ensure ubiquitous quality in results.Participation in the work on the part of ajury, was welcomed as a useful opportunityto try out an approach, outsidethe academic sphere, based aroundthe technological culture of design.Whatever the limitations of a local environment,it was felt that the experiencemight take on a generalizable significance,in contributing to thinking aboutthe demand for quality as a preconditionto the effectiveness of processes,an objective that is more indispensablethan ever, and for which the public sectorclient has strategic roles and responsibilities.