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Maffei Stefano

Full Professor

Maffei Stefano

Full Professor

Architect and PhD in Design. Full Professor of Design at the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches Service Design and Innovation Theory. He is Director of the Specializing Master in Service Design at POLI.design, Consortium Company of Politecnico di Milano specialized in post-graduate training. He is also Director of Polifactory, the interdepartmental fab lab and makerspace of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests focus on service design innovation, new production-distribution models and advanced and distributed microproduction systems. He coordinates the Politecnico research teams working within the European funded projects REFLOW, DDMP and T-FACTOR. He was awarded with the XXII° Compasso D’Oro in Design Research for the Design Research Maps project.

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  • YOURBAN: Co-creating innovative solutions for the recycling and reuse of composite materials

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  • (Eco) Sistema Design Milano. A research process, an integrated report, a first prototype action towards a permanent observatory for the analysis of the Salone del Mobile.Milano and Milan Design Week ecosystem.

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  • Water Resilience Experiment. Investigating local and national water-related issues and solutions across Europe

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  • T-Factor. Making cities in the age of uncertainty

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  • Base5. Broadband InterfAces and services for Smart Environments enabled by 5G technologies

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  • Siscode. Co-design for society in innovation and science

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  • DDP. Distributed Design Platform - FABCARE

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  • DDP. Distributed Design Platform - NEXT STEPS

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  • Includi.MI. Local Administration and Social Entrepreneurship for an inclusive Milan

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