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
The ekip project
Innovation Policies for Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe
Research
Liked, trapped, shared. Incontri digitali con la biodiversità
Exhibition opening
Design for systemic change
Artcast 4D
Unleashing creativity!
Research
PNRR x Italian Design
Research and Innovation at Politecnico di Milano
Design for systemic change
URBREATH
Training Mission II to Certify European Nature-Based Solutions Managers
Research
Supercharged by AI
Synthetic and out of control
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QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024
Politecnico di Milano ranked 7th in the world for Design
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See allThe Department of Design will participate in the Longevity Labs
Milan Longevity Summit
22 and 23 March 2025, Triennale, Sala Agorà, Viale Emilio Alemagna, 6, Milan
A premier global event dedicated to exploring longevity through a multidisciplinary perspective.
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01/10
Navigating Uncertainties in Service Design
Between Transitions
31 March 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CET, Building B3, first floor, Campus Durando, Via Durando 10, Milan
A space for discussions and reflections starting from the insights of the research called UnSee (Uncertainty in Services).
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02/10
Trame e risonanze dal Carcere San Vittore
I cinque nodi del benessere
17 March 2025, building B9A, first floor, Campus Durando, Via Durando 10, Milan
The exhibition invites to a multi-sensory experience of weaving and sound design, transforming the campus into a space for reflection and dialogue on prison and society.
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03/10
Seminar organised by the C1 Final Synthesis Workshop team
Symposium on Antidisciplinary
March 15, 2025, from 10 am to 6 pm, B2.0.1 room, Building B2, Scuola del Design, Campus Durando, Via Durando 10, Milano
An event organized by the Communication Design Final Synthesis Studio C1 with TRX - Transmedia Research Institute.
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04/10
Design Intelligences Lecture Series
Design for, with, and by All Forms of Life
March 13, 2025, 6:30 pm, Workshop Space Tre, Building B3, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Milan
The Department of Design will host the evening talk by Stanislav Roudavski.
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05/10
Exhibition
Wood Design. From model to prototype
Open until 14 March 2025, Building B2, Campus Durando, Via Durando 10, Milan
Fourteen projects from the Wood Design AA 2024/2025 course, a 3rd year elective at the School of Design that explores wood as a versatile and constantly evolving material through products and furniture.
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06/10
Digital 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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07/10
The new patent by a Department of Design's team of specialised technicians
Method for implementing a QR code in knitted fabric
A QR code in knitted fabric, readable by ordinary scanners: this is the new invention of a Department of Design's team of specialised technicians.
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08/10
Seminari di Design Futures 2025
Critical Visions for Future Scenarios
From 17 February to 10 March 2025, online
The Design Futures 2025 seminars of the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, proposed by proff. Marita Canina e Manuela Celi, explore anticipatory and speculative methodologies to design alternative futures.
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09/10
AnthroDay Milano
Il Rapporto tra Cultura e Design
22 February 2025, from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., ADI Design Museum, Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1, Milan
The conference is part of the programme of AnthroDay Milano, the cultural festival, now in its seventh edition, organised in conjunction with the global event World Anthropology Day.
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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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