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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Research

ReverseLab

A space for contemporary art between the prison and the city

Events

What is an author? Co-creating with Generative AI

MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI #3

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

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Closing event of the European project Human Cities / SMOTIES

Futuri Remoti. Participation, design and scenarios in “european small and remote places”

October 23, 2024, 2:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (an aperitivo will follow), Aula Magna, Building 1, Rectorate, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan

Polimi DESIS Lab presents the results of the European project Human Cities / SMOTIES.

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01/10

Seminars 2024

Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development

Politecnico di Milano, Bovisa Campus, B2 Buliding, B2.2.4 room, 9:15 am

The seminars led by Fiammetta Costa and Eugenio Morello have started again.

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02/10

THE QUEER CITY

SPAZIO Q?! Opening Festival

October 18-20, 2024, Parco dei Triangoli, Via Adolfo Omodeo, 29, Milan

A new public space for conviviality, sociability and expression in the Parco dei Triangoli.

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03/10

Milano Digital Week

Tech(&)Democracy

October 14, 2024, 3:30pm - 6:30pm CEST, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Viale Pasubio, 5, Milan

Three conversations with technology and new media experts and local organizations.

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04/10

MORE-THAN-HUMAN AI #3

What is an author? Co-creating with Generative AI

October 15, 2024, 6:30 pm, Workshop Space 3, Building B3, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Milan

The third lecture of the series will be given by Federico Bomba, President of Sineglossa and researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Bolzano.

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05/10

Digital Design Days

Al Multiverse - Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence

October 8, 2024, 1:30 pm, Superstudio Più, Via Tortona, 27, Milan

The panel discussion will offer a multidisciplinary perspective on artificial intelligence, exploring its applications in five key fields.

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06/10

Pianeta 30

Change 2024. Sustainability at Politecnico di Milano is imagined, taught, lived, and done together

October 15, 2024, 4:30 pm @ room Giampiero Pesenti, Leonardo Campus, Politecnico di Milano, via Bonardi 9, Milan

Politecnico di Milano and Corriere della Sera present the second edition of "Change", the event of Planet 30.

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07/10

Webinar

Trustworthy AI by design: Insights from the AI, Big Data and Democracy Taskforce

October 1, 2024, 10 to 11:30 am, Online Event

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08/10

ReverseLab

GLI ARTISTI SONO QUELLI CHE FANNO CASINO. Frammenti dal carcere di San Vittore

From September 28 to October 28, 2024, Casa Circondariale Francesco di Cataldo (San Vittore Prison), Piazza Filangieri 2, Milan

The ReverseLab space in Milan's San Vittore Prison “Francesco Di Cataldo” was inaugurated this week.

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09/10

Crowdfunding

The Queer City project

Until September 30, 2024

Crowdfunding due September 30 for The Queer City project.

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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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