The Department

The Department of Design is the leading Italian centre for scientific research in the field of design. Rooted in the Italian design culture, it is oriented towards exploring new disciplinary frontiers, putting design at the service of contemporary challenges.

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Events

Towards More-Than-Human Collective Intelligence

MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI #2

Events

Gianfranco Ferré tra ragione e sentimento

Palazzo Malinverni showcases the designer's sketches and iconic garments

Design for systemic change

T-Factor

Making cities in the age of uncertainty

Network

ICG RenaisScience Hub

A true renaissance of ceramics through scientific research

News

QS World University Rankings 2025

Politecnico di Milano ranks 111th in the world and enters the top 8% of global universities of excellence

Network

Exhibitions, installations and events of the Polimi Design System

Milano Design Week 2024

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Exploring the boundaries between humans and AI in the design of regenerative futures

MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI

From 6:30 pm at Workshop Space Tre, Building B3, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Milan

A lecture series organized by the PhD Program in Design and the Design Intelligences Institute.

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01/10

Palazzo Malinverni showcases the designer's sketches and iconic garments

Gianfranco Ferré tra ragione e sentimento

From 7 September to 6 October 2024, Sala degli Stemmi, Palazzo Malinverni, Via Bernardino Luini, 1, Legnano

An exhibition exploring Gianfranco Ferré's unique approach to fashion design through a selection of iconic designs and garments.

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02/10

MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI #2

Towards More-Than-Human Collective Intelligence

September 24, 2024, 6:30 pm, Workshop Space 3, Building B3, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Milan

The second lecture of the series will be given by Roni Bulent Ozel, artificial intelligence expert with double PhD.

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03/10

La cultura degli Oggetti – The Culture of Things

20 and 28 September 2024, Bologna

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, Heritage of routes, Networks and Connections, the study seminar La cultura degli oggetti - The Culture of Things opens to citizenship.

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04/10

On Data And Design #28

Data Visualization Tools

September 19, 6pm – 7:30pm CET, Online event

Researcher Tommaso Elli will take part as a speaker at the 28th episode of On Data And Design.

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05/10

Screening of the documentary film on Alzheimer's and meeting with the director Barbara Roganti

L'acqua non muore mai

19 September, 2024, 5 pm @ room B2.0.1, Campus Bovisa, Via Candiani 72, Milan

"L'acqua non muore mai" is a collective narrative made of stories and relationships, about Alzheimer's and dementia.

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06/10

MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI #1

Beyond Sustainability: Designing More-than-Human Urban Encounters and Justice Practices

September 17, 2024, 6:30 pm, Fratelli Castiglioni Lecture Hall, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Milan

The first lecture in the series will be given by Rachel Clarke, researcher and senior lecturer at the University of the Arts, London.

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07/10

Desire - Designing an Irresistible Circular Society

The project’s final event in Copenhagen

The Desire team of Politecnico di Milano joined other 23 partners in Copenhagen to exchange results, experiences and insights.

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08/10

Elisa Giaccardi was named one of the 50 most influential women in technology in our country

InspiringFifty

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09/10

XIX Color Conference

Call for paper

The deadline for the submission of content in Italian or English has been extended.

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10/10

Research

Design Philology

A historical and philological research project to celebrate design at Politecnico di Milano

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Paolo Volonté

Design, Technology & Society

A sociologist working at the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano, and today I took with me this strange object with a slightly high-tech, but also very low-tech design.

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Alessandro Colizzi

Join the dots: narrating design between archives and testimonials

I’ve just come back from Montreal, Canada, where I was a professor at the École de design at UQAM from 2005 onwards. I taught History of Graphic Design, Typography and Type Design, Exhibition Design and Critical Design.

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