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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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ICG RenaisScience Hub

A true renaissance of ceramics through scientific research

news

A memory

Cesare Stevan

Network

Exhibitions, installations and events of the Polimi Design System

Milano Design Week 2024

network

Interdependence. Designing relationships

The Design System at the MilanO Design Week 2024

RESEARCH

Italian Design Day 2024

Manufacturing Value: inclusiveness, innovation and sustainability

RESEARCH

Nanni Strada

Honorary Master's Degree in Fashion Design for the fashion system

Research

Active³ - Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday

Technology and design for prevention, health and sport

Meet our researchers

UX Design

Margherita Pillan

Call for paper

XIX Color Conference

The deadline for the submission of content in Italian or English has been extended.

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01/10

Exhibition inauguration

Interdipendenze. Visioni per l'abitare

July 9, 2024, 4:30 pm @ Orto Botanico Città Studi, Via Camillo Golgi 18, Milan

The first-year students of the Laboratorio di Elementi Visivi del Progetto (BSC in Interior Design) have designed alternative futures that investigate current issues and explore new scenarios to stimulate present debates.

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02/10

Call for applications

Switch2Product 2024

Applications are now open for Switch2Product 2024, the entrepreneurial empowerment programme organised by Politecnico di Milano's Technology Transfer Office, Deloitte's Officine Innovazione and PoliHub.

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03/10

Davide Fassi and Paola Bertola became new International Advisory Council members

Design Research Society

Professor Paola Bertola and Professor Davide Fassi have become new members of the International Advisory Council of the Design Research Society (DRS).

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04/10

An interdisciplinary walk

"Con occhi diverrsi"

June 25, 2024, from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm @ Bicocca District

Michela Bresciani e Giampaolo Nuvolati of the Department of Sociology and Social Research of University of Milano-Bicocca have organized an educational walk around Bicocca District, involving professors from the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. Starting from the heart of the neighborhood the itinerary of the walk will continue in search of hidden artworks, and the housing issue for students will be explored from a particular perspective.

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05/10

Polisocial Award Projects

SOSpesa

It is possible to donate money for SOSpesa at Dona Polimi platform.

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06/10

A new creative intervention about the effects of AI on our online lives

Information Literacy for Societal Resilience

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07/10

Opening

La Stanza della Vita

24 June, 12:15 pm @ Aula Magna Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni Via dell'Eremo, 9/11, Lecco

La Stanza della Vita (Room of Life) was born out of the need to create a sensitive space for the difficult encounter between medical staff, nurses and relatives of patients admitted to the intensive care unit.

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08/10

Reflections on Human Overconsumption

Raw Scenarios

22 June 2024, 11 am to 7 pm @ dotdotdot, via Tertulliano 68, Milan

Raw Scenarios, the presentation event of the projects realised in the C1 Final Synthesis Workshop of the Degree Course in Communication Design, stages 11 scenarios with the aim of involving everyone in a reflection on the possible future of food production and overconsumption.

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09/10

Exhibition

CityMatters_Casello Cantore Lab | An hub for youth policies and actions

June 17, 2024, from 10:30 pm to 6:30 pm @ BASE, via Bergognone 23, Milan

Exhibition of the First-Year Master's Degree Students' Works in Product Service System Design (PSSD).

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010/10

Events

Project presentation

News

D\Tank

The think tank of the Department of Design that transforms advanced academic research into convergences of innovation

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Meet our researchers

Paolo Volonté

Hi, I'm Paolo Volontè, 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.

02

Meet our researchers

Alessandro Colizzi

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.

03

Meet our researchers

Stefana Maja Broadbent

My name is Stefana Broadbent, I have recently joined the Department of Design as an Associate Professor. I am a social scientist. I have a PhD in Cognitive Science from Edinburgh University but have done all my professional and academic career as a Digital Anthropologist. In fact before joining Politecnico I lectured in digital Anthropology at UCL in London.

04

Meet our researchers

James Postell

After 32 years of teaching in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. I bring to the Politecnico a passion for teaching and thinking about design and the making of design.

05

Meet our researchers

Maurizio Bruglieri

Hello everyone. My name is Maurizio Bruglieri and I am an Associate Professor in Operational Research in the Design Department. The object that I have brought with me today is my smartphone. Who knows how many times you have used it to obtain information on the best route to get to a destination, for instance in a part of the city that you don’t know very well. I am responsible for the magic that enables to find exactly the shortest one.

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