Gramegna Silvia Maria

Designer and Ph.D., Assistant Professor at the Department of Design,

Politecnico di Milano. Her research explores the role of design in supporting social, environmental, and organisational transformations through collaborative and participatory practices involving communities, organisations, institutions, and people across different stages of life. Her work focuses particularly on transformation design, sustainable social innovation, spatial and interior design, active ageing, dementia care, and the role of design in fostering wellbeing and social inclusion.

She is member of SIDE – Prototyping Change through Transformation Design, a research group at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, investigating how design research can foster learning, build transformative capacities. She is also a researcher within Lab.I.R.Int. – Laboratory of Innovation and Research on Interiors, a research group at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, and GRACE_Lab, an experimental multi-disciplinary laboratory, where her work addresses inclusive and therapeutic environments, with particular attention to ageing and dementia care.