Alessandro Rancati

Alessandro Rancati

Designer at the EU Policy Lab, European Commission

Architect and designer trained at Politecnico di Milano. He has worked at the EU Policy Lab (European Commission) and within the New European Bauhaus Unit (JRC), contributing to the initiative from the co-design phase to community-building. He previously taught design and innovation at Elisava (Barcelona). A co-founder of livepods, he brings regenerative practices into policymaking, placemaking, and entrepreneurship. With Dave Snowden, he co-authored “Managing Complexity (and Chaos) in Times of Crisis”.

  • (Eco)systemic Management. Navigating Through Experimentation. Destination? Beauty
    Issue 17

    (Eco)systemic Management. Navigating Through Experimentation. Destination? Beauty

    Is the world really more complex, or have we made it complicated by chasing certainty? Removing our “lenses” and moving through confusion is part of the transition. Navigation happens through listening and sense-making – experiences, micro-narratives, maps – followed by field experiments and learning from unintended outcomes. To avoid sliding into chaos, values are needed as a compass. In the New European Bauhaus, beauty – together with sustainability and inclusion – is understood as an emergent, relational quality that helps orient action.