Magazine

The Department of Design Magazine showcases ideas, projects, people, and trajectories. It is a space dedicated to highlighting research activities, scientific results, publications and academic achievements. Through articles, in-depth articles and interviews, it conveys the richness of the initiatives and expertise that animate the Department, with the aim of sharing and making accessible the work carried out in research, education and third mission activities.

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COLTA’s contribution to social collective catering.

COLTA investigates social collective catering as a complex system of relationships, care, and design practices. The research outlines transformation scenarios rooted in local contexts and oriented toward community-based welfare.

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Trame Locali: Narrating, Imagining, Inhabiting

Trame Locali explores new ways of narrating the territories of the Lower Monferrato, combining participatory design, storytelling, and Artificial Intelligence to enhance intangible heritage and local communities.

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NetZeroCities learning programs

Online planning lab for all cities, seasonal schools for Mission Cities and first capacity building event in Italian.

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Publications

By María Eugenia Sosa Martí, Caterina Dastoli and Silvia D. Ferraris

Design(ing) Manufacturing Collaboration

The volume aims to bridge the gap between designers and manufacturing companies by presenting a design intervention intended to create spaces for exchange and collaboration between those who design and those who produce.

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Edited by Virginia Tassinari, Francesca Piredda and Francesco Vergani

Situated Vocabularies

The book investigates the power of words as design and political devices, capable of making visible convergences, conflicts, divergences, and nuanced meanings that emerge within complex social contexts, thereby questioning the idea of a neutral and universal language.

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By Valentina Rognoli, Elena Albergati, Barbara Pollini and Carla Langella

Living Interaction Design

The volume brings together interaction design and the emerging field of biodesign, offering a groundbreaking exploration of living and biofabricated materials within interactive artefacts.

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Edited by Nithikul Nimkulrat, Silvia D. Ferraris, Francesca Mattioli

Prototyping and Experiential Knowledge

An interdisciplinary volume that shows how prototyping becomes a critical, collaborative, and speculative tool for addressing the contemporary challenges of design.

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Meet our researchers

Margherita Pillan

UX Design

My name is Margherita Pillan and I’m a Professor at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano. I deal with a lot of things: Interaction Design, Interface Design, Service Design, but today I would like to talk about UX Design, which is the discipline I teach in the Master's Degree Course, it’s the discipline on which I do research and it’s the competence I bring in my collaboration with various companies.

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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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