Angelica Vandi
PHD student
PhD Student in Design and MSc in Design for the Fashion System at Politecnico di Milano. During her university career, she took part in the Design Management joint program with Jefferson University, Philadelphia.
Since 2019, she has been a Fashion in Process researcher at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano, within the research section "Design and Culture of Innovation”, and, since 2021, she has been a researcher at the Gianfranco Ferré Research Center. She followed the development of the DigiMood for CCIs European-funded project.
She teaches in the Fashion Branding Strategies course at Milano Fashion Institute. She is a teaching assistant and content contributor at the Branding&Communication course in the joint program of Product Service System Design and Management Engineering and tutor at the "Design for the Fashion System" Final Studio Lab in the MSc in Design for the Fashion System at Politecnico di Milano.
Her research interests concern the relationship between Fashion Design, Cultural Heritage and Design Futures. She focuses on identifying design-driven, speculative scenarios to innovate Cultural and Creative Industries' production and consumption dynamics and on modeling and experimenting with new cultural interactions involving tangible and intangible Fashion Cultural Capital, both historicized and contemporary.
Research projects
DigiMooD for CCI. Digital Module of Didactics for Cultural and Creative Industry
Heritech 4 Fashion. Heritage Technologies for Fashion, Technologies and Processes for the Augmented Fruition of Fashion and Textile Heritage
Research groups
FiP
Gianfranco Ferré Research Center