Conti Giovanni Maria

Associate Professor

Ph.D, Associate Professor, he is currently the Coordinator of Knitwear design Lab – Knitlab of the Fashion Design Degree at the Politecnico di Milano. He worked at Donna Karan NY as Assistant Account Executive International for the DKNY women's line in Italy.

Founder and Scientific Coordinator of the website/blog www.knitlab.org, he was involved as Visiting Scholar to Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology of Bangalore (India), as Lecturing in some University (China, Brazil, Perù, Australia), as consultant for SENAI Design program in Brazil. He is Instituto Italo-Latino Americano – IILA expert collaborator in the Pymes Forum for cooperation projects on textile and fashion.

He is a member of the editorial board of “Lupetti. Editori di Comunicazione ". In 2020 he received the Honorable Mention at the XXVI Compasso d'Oro for the "DigiKnit" research.
He is Director of the Master in Fashion Direction: Product Sustainability Management at MFI (Milano Fashion Institute Consortium) and member of LeNS - International Learning Network on Sustainability.

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Research projects

  • GREENTEX. GREEN innovative production of bio-based TEXtiles: spinning, electrospinning and life cycle assessment of clever textiles for apparel architecture and interior design

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  • Con/text. A digital ecosystem to connect textile-knitwear manufacturing with future design talent

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  • Bando Leonardo da Vinci 2020

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  • DIGIKNIT. Digitalization of knitwear

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