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For a number of years this was the offical site of the Milano Design PhD Festival which started in 2010. It is a program of meetings with the international protagonists of design culture, as well as an occasion to take part in the final PhD defenses of PhD candidates.
Content is from the site's 2016 archived pages, and from other outside sources.

For the latest news about the Milano Design PhD Festival go to its current site at: http://phd.design.polimi.it/


Milano Design PHD Festival is the program of meetings with the international protagonists of design culture during the discussions of the final exams of the Ph.D. in Design at the Milan Polytechnic.

The meetings will take place from 24 to 28 March 2014 in English and are open to the public.

The intent is to discuss some issues related to the project with Italian and foreign researchers, Ph.D. students and internationally renowned teachers on precious occasions for debate. The three major themes tackled this year will be Design in relation to users, interfaces and social interactions. 

The 3 days will be divided into: 
DEFENSE OF DOCTORAL THESIS (the candidates will support their thesis in public with the re-election of external teachers to the Polytechnic, in front of a commission of international experts); 
OPEN LECTURES (lessons held by international experts specifically invited to Milan); 
PhD EVENINGS (events of leisure and socialization to continue to confront even in an experimental way).

The PhD in Design is active at the Politecnico di Milano, proposed and coordinated by the Department of Design, with the Department of Mechanics and the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering.

 

About

Milan Design PhD Festival is a program of meetings with the international protagonists of design culture. 
PhD defenses of PhD candidates.

Open to the public from 07 to 11 March 2016 and are organized in English.

PhD candidates and world mentioned professors. The five areas of research of the 6th edition are: Products & Services, Environments, Emotions, Experiences, Virtual Models.

The 5 days are divided into 3 main parts:

  • DEFENDING SESSIONS,  PhD candidates discussing their thesis in front of a panel of international experts, counter-professors, and visiting scholars at the Milan Polytechnic
  • OPEN LECTURES  given by international and renowned experts
  • PhD EVENINGS  for networking activities

The Design research PhD program, PhD in Design , inaugurated in 2008 at the Milan Polytechnic , is run by the Design Department with the collaboration of the Department of Mechanics and the Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering. 
The program aims to cultivate researcher-designers who will contribute to the identification of the potential of contemporary society.

 

"As a jewelry artist specializing in sterling silver items, I mistakenly attended this festival thinking I could learn from professionals how to improve my design skills. Rings are my specialty and I was looking for ways to enhance my skill sets both for the jewelry itself and for creating an exquisite display of sterling silver rings which I could use in our store. Little did I realize the extremely high level of discourse presented at this event. But I came away very glad to have attended, and in my post event conversations with the speakers I discovered that although their work was focused on more philosophical topics, everyone had some knowledge and advice to offer regarding my main interests. My best conversation included a detailed discussion on the benefits of lighting in the photography used in presentations - something that is immensely useful. So my mistake turned out to be extremely serendipidous!" Jonathan Markee

 


Milano Design PHD Festival is the program of meetings with the international protagonists of design culture during the discussions of the final exams of the Ph.D. in Design at the Milan Polytechnic.

The meetings will take place from 07 to 11 March 2016 in English and are open to the public.

The intent is to discuss some issues related to the project with Italian and foreign researchers, Ph.D. students and internationally renowned teachers on precious occasions for debate. The three major themes tackled this year will be the New Stories, Communication and Processes. 
The 5 days will be divided into 3 macro sections:

  • DEFENSE OF DOCTORAL THESIS,  the candidates will support their thesis in public before a committee of international experts, the respective counter-speakers and guest lecturers at the Polytechnic of Milan
  • OPEN LECTURES  held by renowned international experts
  • PhD EVENINGS  dedicated to events of leisure and socialization to continue to confront

The PhD Course in Design has been active at the Polytechnic of Milan since 2008; it is proposed and coordinated by the Department of Design, in collaboration with the Department of Mechanics and the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering. 
The aim of the course is to prepare designers-researchers who, by tackling the problems and identifying the opportunities of contemporary society, are able to produce a contribution of original knowledge in the field of Design.

 



 

How to participate?

OPEN EVENING LECTURES & PHD
Open Lectures and PhD Evenings are free to attend are held in Inglese from 07 to 11 March 2016. 
All the events will take place in Castiglioni Room  at Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via Candiani 72.

For more information and details: [email protected]


OPEN LECTURE & EVENTS
Each event is open to the public free of charge. Each activity will be held in English from 07 to 11 March 2016. 
All lessons and events will be held in the Castiglioni Hall  at the Milan Polytechnic, Campus Bovisa, Via Candiani 72.

For further information: [email protected]

 




Program

All the venues will take place at Politecnico di Milano, campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10.
In Castiglioni Room on Monday and on Wednesday.
In De Carli Room on Tuesday.

Mon 23/03
New stories


Castiglioni Room
Panel: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Raimonda Riccini e Francesco Tedeschi

09.30am Virginia Lucarelli
Design Wunderkammern: the contemporary practice of collecting design

10.30am Nadia Campadelli
Grants from Banking Foundations and Trusts. A Model of Design for the Preservation and Development of Libraries, Archives and Museums

12.00pm OPENING CEREMONY
Prof. Silvia Piardi (Head, Design Department)
Prof. Arturo Dell’Acqua Bellavitis (Dean, School of Design)


Castiglioni Room

12.15am LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Prof. Maurizio Vogliazzo
“Fragments”

2.30pm THEMATIC SEMINAR 
Prof. Luca Guerrini
“SEEKING EVIDENCE – Dialogues on 6 domains of Design Research”

Tue 24/03
Communication


Castiglioni Room
Panel: Paola Bertola, Stuart Candy e Asta Pundzine

10.00am Jennifer Rudkin
Navigating through Trends and Anticipation: An Advanced Design perspective on Reframing practices

11:00 Dogning Yan
Interface Design for User Decision Improvement in E-commerce


Castiglioni Room

2.30pm Prof. Stuart Candy (Ontario College of Art, Canada)
“Design future”

3.30pm Prof. Asta Pundziene (Kaunas University of Technology, Lituania)
“Design Thinking in Contenporary management of Research and Innovation”

6.00pm

Wed 25/03
Processes


De Carli Room
Panel: Margherita Pillan, Richard Rogers, Max Giovagnoli e Andy Simionato

10.00am Michele Mauri
Design of the un-finished. Information visualization in mapping social issues through the web

11.00am Mariana Ciancia
Transmedia Design Framework. A Design-Oriented Approach to Transmedia Practice


De Carli Room

2.30pm Prof. Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
“Digital methods”

3.30pm Prof. Andy Simionato (Curtin University of Technology – Perth, Australia)
“What remains is the book”

6.00pm

 



 

DEFENDING SESSIONS

Meet the PhD candidates defending their theses

 




Lectures

All the events will take place in  Castiglioni Room at Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via Candiani 72.

Mon 07/03

LECTIO MAGISTRALIS

Prof. Francesco Trabucco [Politecnico di Milano, Italy]
The Practice of Design

SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS

14.30 INTRODUCTION
Prof. Luca Guerrini [Politecnico di Milano, Italy]

14.30 DISCUSSANTS
Prof. Ken Friedman [Tongji University, China]
Prof. Nicola Morelli  [Aalborg University, Denmark]

Tue 08/03

OPEN LECTURES

14.00 Prof. Can Özcan [Izmir University of Economics, Turkey]
Designers Go to Dentist

15.00 Prof. Peter Mc Grory  [Aalto University, Finland]
Systemic Innovation and Integrated Platform Strategies

16.00 Prof. Keiichi Sato [Illinois Institute of Technology, USA]
Human System Integration and Design: Design for Meaning

Wed 09/03

OPEN LECTURES

14.00 Prof. Elena Mugellini [University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland]
Persuasive Technologies

15.00 Prof. Wendy Ju [Stanford University, USA]
Interacting with Automatons and Automation

16.00 Prof. Nadia Berthouze [University College London UCL, UK]
Bringing Affect into Technology: the Case of Physical Rehabilitation

Thu 10/03

OPEN LECTURES

14.00 Prof. Peter Gall Krogh [Aarhus University, Denmark]
Drifting by Intention – Design Research from the Inside

15.00 Prof. Andrew Hines [University of Houston, USA]
Future-Friendly Design: Designing for and with Future Consumers

Fri 11/03

OPEN LECTURES

14.00 Prof. Steven Kyffin [Northumbria University, UK]
The relationship between Design, ICT, and Arts

15.00 Prof. Raul Fangueiro [University Of Minho, Portugal]
Designing with Fibers: Challenges for Innovation

 



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