Designing the unknown. Design as a practice of anticipation
The Department of Design hosted the sixth edition of the Anticipation Conference, that transformed the Bovisa Campus into an international laboratory devoted to one of the most pressing questions of our time: how do we design when the future is no longer predictable, but radically open?
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Designing Democratic Transitions. Milan Symposium at Politecnico di Milano
Milan Symposium, an international initiative organized as part of the European CoDesign4Transitions project, provided a forum for discussing how to address the ecological transition in a democratic, inclusive, and socially legitimate way.
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Designing for Living Together. Why PDC 2026 Speaks to the Future of Design
The conference brought together a global community engaged in participation, co-design and social innovation around a theme that feels both timely and urgent: Peace, Dialogue, Coexistence. Designing for Living Together.
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Daniela Petrelli
I am Daniela Petrelli, my work has always focused on the interaction between people and digital technologies, not only through a computer screen or a mobile device, but also through spaces that respond to our presence and interactive objects that do not appear digital at all.
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Elisa Giaccardi
I am Elisa Giaccardi, my research explores how design can incorporate a non-human perspective.
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Margherita Pillan
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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