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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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.
Design for systemic change
URBREATH
Training Mission II to Certify European Nature-Based Solutions Managers
News
Proximity and innovation
Research
Design Spaziale Italiano
An itinerant multimedia project curated by Annalisa Dominoni and Benedetto Quaquaro
Research
Supercharged by AI
Synthetic and out of control
News
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024
Politecnico di Milano ranked 7th in the world for Design
Events
Gianfranco Ferré dentro l’obiettivo
Photography exhibition at Forte di Bard
News
See allDigital encounters with biodiversity
Liked, trapped, shared.
February 25, 2025, Opening at 6:30 pm, MEET Digital Culture Center, Viale Vittorio Veneto 2, Milan
The exhibition examines the role of the digital in promoting new forms of coexistence with the non-human world, investigating the theme of biodivesity.
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01/10
Opening of the exhibition at the Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti
La terra è una grande memoria. Mnemofoto
February 17, 2025, Opening at 6:30 pm, Archivio Vincenzo Agnetti, Via Niccolò Machiavelli 30, Milan
On this occasion, the book Mnemotopes. Designing the Memory of Places by Clorinda Sissi Galasso, published by FrancoAngeli, will be presented.
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02/10
Creativity that Challenges the Rules
DISRUPTING ORDERS
From 31 January to 2 February 2025, Stecca 3.0, Via Gaetano de Castillia, 26, Milan
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03/10
Seminar
Fare assieme — Collaborative Public Services
29 January 2025, from 17:30 to 20:00, BASE Milan, via Ambrogio Bergognone da Fossano, 34
A seminar to explore the topic of collaborative public services and how they are designed.
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04/10
A co-design between città-IN and Mamme a Scuola
Parliamo di Scuola. A tool to improve school service accessibility
28 January, 4:30 pm – 6.30 pm, Off Campus San Siro, via Gigante, opposite house number 5, Milan
A public event to present the process and outputs of the co-design activity.
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05/10
Seminar organized by the città-IN project
Right to Education and Learning
24 January 2025, from 14:00 to 16:00, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Eficio 12, 2nd floor, Via Bonardi 3, Milan
A seminar to improve the accessibility and quality of public services, with a specific focus on the right to education for all.
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06/10
Materials Design for Transition Toward Regenerative Ecologies
The new online course developed by MaDe/Trans research group
A new MOOC providing a comprehensive overview of contemporary material design.
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07/10
Episodes 2 and 3 (Ghana-Bangladesh)
Junk – Armadi pieni
22 January 2025, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Aula Grandori - DICA, Building 4, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
Second screening of the 'DICA Documentaries' cycle.
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08/10
Round table
Cultural Heritage and Instability in Syria and the Middle East: Between Urgency and Reflections
20 January 2025, 5:30 pm, online event
Politecnico di Milano contributes to the Syrian Heritage Week in Italy by displaying its variety of approaches and expertise on the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage.
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09/10
Publication
Experimenting with the New European Bauhaus Values and Principles in Urban Transformation
The volume edited by Alessandro Deserti and Emma Puerari is now published as Open Access by Springer Nature.
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10/10
Design for systemic change
Design Philology
A historical and philological research project to celebrate design at Politecnico di Milano
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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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Stefana Maja Broadbent
The join challenges of social sciences and desing
I have recently joined the Department of Design as an Associate Professor. I am a social scientist.
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