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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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A memory

Cesare Stevan

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Exhibitions, installations and events of the Polimi Design System

Milano Design Week 2024

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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

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UX Design

Margherita Pillan

Research

OFF CAMPUS Nolo +

A new research, teaching and co-design space for the Politecnico living lab

RESEARCH

Design for Ukrainian Heritage

The Museum of Ukrainian Museums in the metaverse

Biennale Internazionale Grafica events

Book presentation "Fonderia Fonti Nebiolo, 1878-1978. Nuovi Studi Critici”

May 25, 2024, 6:00 pm @ ADI Design Museum, Piazza Compasso d'Oro, 1, Milan

Within the framework of Biennale Internazionale Grafica (BIG), James Clough and Riccardo De Franceschi from Nebiolo History Project present "Fonderia Fonti Nebiolo, 1878-1978. Nuovi Studi Critici".

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01/10

BIG. Biennale Internazionale Grafica 2024

Initiatives, talks and exhibitions involving the Department and the School of Design

The widespread festival dedicated to communication design and visual cultures kicks off.

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02/10

Milano Arch Week Events

Donne in Architettura

May 22, 2024, 5:00 pm @ Politecnico di Milano, Architecture patio

Speakers and students discuss the role of women in the field of Architecture and the obstacles that still exist.

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03/10

Game & IDN DiGRA Italia Talks

"On IDN for Complexity", a lecture by Hartmut Koenitz

20 May 2024, from 2:30 pm to 3:30 pm, online

A lecture to delve into the core issues and developments in the study and application of Interactive Digital Narratives, presenting key findings and theories discussed in the book "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative. Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" by Hartmut Koenitz.

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04/10

Graphic Days

Talk “Design della comunicazione: il futuro della ricerca”

18 May 2024, from 10:30 to 12:30, Flashback Habitat, Corso Giovanni Lanza 75, Turin

A dialogue on the forms of experimentation that the university promotes to support the evolutionary lines of the discipline.

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05/10

Seminars on Participatory Design

Il giovedì di Off Campus Nolo

Off Campus Nolo, Mercato Comunale di Viale Monza 54, Milan

A series of seminars to discuss the ongoing dynamics in the neighbourhood, the challenges and opportunities for change and transformation that emerged from the Neighbourhood Vocabulary, a Participatory Design project co-created with the Nolo community.

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06/10

DDC meets Stephanie Sherman

Narrative Machines: Devices, Denotation, Designation and Derivatives

May 15, 2024, 5:30 pm, room B2.1.16, Bovisa Campus, Via Candiani 72, Milan

The Course of Communication Design, in collaboration with the design studio dotdotdot, presents a lecture by Stephanie Sherman.

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07/10

Do you want to make a tangible difference in someone's life? Donate!

Second Chance - When your clothes meet another life.

May 13 - 24, 2024, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm @ OpenLab, B2 building, Campus Bovisa, via Candiani 72

In collaboration with Sesta Opera, Off Campus San Vittore has organized a collection of clothing and personal hygiene supplies for the inmates of “Giovani Adulti” section "Francesco Di Cataldo" of Carcere San Vittore.

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08/10

AI4Gov Open Event

Accelerating AI adoption for government

10-11 May, 2024, Campus Bovisa, via Durando, 10, Milan

A closing event to present the results achieved and knowledge learnt, with a view to the further development of the AI4Gov ecosystem.

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09/10

A series of events on sustainability and critical consumption

Book Presentation "Ecologia Digitale. Per una tecnologia al servizio di persone, società e ambiente"

13 maggio, 2024, 20.45 @ Cinema Teatro Filo, Piazza Filodrammatici, 4, Cremona

Stefana Broadbent presents her book published by Altreconomie.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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