Current Research ProjectsVisual communication
Author: Wilco Lensink
Working group: Christian Upmeier, Paolo Volonté, Silvia Dal Negro
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Multilingualism in visual communication
Criteria, based on various methods used in projects to respond to multilingual problems in visual communication
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Author: Michela Carlini
Branding the Chinese Dragon
Providing answers in identity design to the extension of a western brand over the Chinese borders and to the creation of a new specific brand addressed to the Chinese
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Interior & Exhibit Design
Author: Roberto Gigliotti
Design, Architecture and Urban Development
An interdisciplinary study of public spaceThis research project focuses mainly on the development of changes in the public space of today's city, understood as meeting place of social interaction and communication
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Contemporary Art History
Author: Emanuela De Cecco
Contemporary artistic practices and contexts
Starting from an afterthought of the public sphere
This resarch project focuses on the relations among what can be called today public sphere and contemporary art. This means to deal with a scenario deeply changed in the recent years, where all the traditional protagonists of the art world are playing different roles in different contexts. The research will investigate these canges, trying to configure a map through a sampling of significative cases.
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Design theory
Author: Hans Höger
Working group: Sergio Calatroni, Miyuki Yajima, Hidemi Amae, Adelia Borges
A-temporary: O & A | Observations & Admissions
Anonymous Design in an inter-cultural context
Which origins and forms of expression characterise the kind of design that is not developed by professional designers, but by those people who act out of their own particular life situation?
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Author: Hans Höger
Cultural engineering
Extending the awareness of interdisciplinarity within design, architecture and communicationInvestigation of movies, literature, the arts and everyday culture in their relevance as inspiration and information sources for design projects
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Authors: Antonino Benincasa, Hans Höger
Metadesign
Products and services under the signs of emotional identity and sustainable aestheticsAnalysis of design working methods that, from the point of view of design strategy, put direct project working in the context of long-term action and communication strategies
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Author: Hans Höger
Working group: Antonino Benincasa
Strategy Setting to Face the Future
International conference on Design Research
Which kind of topics will become relevant, in the next years, for the design profession? And which are the most appropriated working methods, research approaches and professional attitudes in order to deal successfully with the challenges those future design topics are implying?
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Design sociology
Author: Paolo Volonté
Working group: Alvise Mattozzi, Carla Lunghi, Ambrogia Cereda
Innovation of material culture in advanced industrial societies
Inquiry on the role designers play in the processes of cultural change that are peculiar to contemporary society – a society where cultural production takes place mainly through communication processes.
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Author: Paolo Volonté
Working group: Giancarlo Rovati, Lucia Ruggerone, Marco Pedroni
“Creativity” within the fashion system and the role of the fashion designer
Designing new possibilities in the clothing area viewed as a process of innovation of the communication tools available for social subjects.
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Author: Paolo Volonté
Credibility and creativity in scientific communication
Writing and publishing a book on the social conditions that underpin the production of scientific knowledge: Where does cognitive creativity of scientists come from?
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Author: Paolo Volonté
Working group: Elisa Bellotti, Lorenzo Beltrame
A comparison between fields of knowledge production
A research on the social dynamics that underpin the processes of knowledge production in contemporary societies: a study in the social fields in Physics and Philosophy in Italy.
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Author: Paolo Volonté
Working group: Regina Rochow, Andrea Cerroni, Luca Guazzetti, Federico Neresini, Elisa Bellotti
A multidimensional approach for technology transfer
How does technology transfer occur? How far is it affected by the culture of those who are involved in it? A sociological research on social variables influencing technology transfer performed through collaborative projects between public and private sector activities.
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