Marta Corubolo
PhD in Design, Research Fellow and Contract Professor at the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano, She is member of the Polimi DESIS Lab, part of DESIS (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) global network. Her research interests cover service and strategic design and social innovation, community centered design and collaborative services, with a specific focus on the incubation and growth of local initiatives and their relationship with the private and third sector. Her Doctoral Thesis (2018) discusses the role of the design discipline in enabling collaborative multi-stakeholder ecosystems, capable of generating and supporting social innovation through collaboration, defined as an open process of codesign and coproduction of services. As a researcher she joined several national and European research programs, among which: Transition (www.transitionproject.eu) aiming at scaling 300 social innovation practices though a shared a multidisciplinary model of intervention, and Spread 2050 (https://www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu/), investigating European sustainable lifestyle models for 2050. Adjunct Professor at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano, she has been a lecturer at the Master in Social and Collaborative Housing of POLI.Design, at ASP Alta Scuola Politecnica, SPD and IES Abroad. In 2014 she co-founded HousingLab (www.housinglab.it), a multi-disciplinary lab experimenting within the field of collaborative housing. HousingLab supports organizations from the public, private and third sector in developing new sustainable housing models, as well as citizens in exploring and building innovative and inclusive cohousing.
Annalinda De Rosa
Research Fellow at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano for model development in spatial and service design postgraduate education, and for advanced didactic and training models for doctoral education.
After graduating in Interior Design (MSc, 2010) at Politecnico di Milano, since 2011 she is teaching assistant for Interior and Product Service System Design courses at the Politecnico di Milano School of Design and collaborator in research projects at national and international level mainly on design for social innovation, design for public spaces and community-centred design topics. In 2012/13, she attended a post-graduate research course at EnsAD – École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where she experienced graphic and set design collaborating with theatre companies and an architectural firm.
PhD in Design at Politecnico di Milano (2019), her research is focused on the relationship between Spatial Design and Service Design, addressing the fundamentals of the disciplines in educational methodologies and processes.
She is part of the Polimi Desis Lab research team within the DESIS Network (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) and she has been involved in the research project “Human Cities, Challenging the city scale 2014-18”, co-funded by the Creative Programme of the EU, and in the European consortium GIDE – Group for International Design Education (2014-2016).
Laura Galluzzo
PhD, Research Fellow and Contract Professor in Spatial and Service Design at Design Department, Politecnico di Milano. She is part of POLIMI-DESIS Lab within the DESIS Network (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability). She works for research on public spaces, community centered design project, design for social innovation with a particular focus on spaces and services.
She is the coordinator of the research ADESSO, Aesthetics for Design of Social Innovation. She works in different research programs dealing with Design for Social Innovation: Scuola 2.0 a research project with elementary and middle schools; Comunicare Ospitando, a research project for Polimi residences; Il Salone del Futuro, a research project for the Chamber of Commerce in Milan, TUS (Temporary Urban Solutions) in the Martesana District for Cargo-HiTech Company.
In the last years she worked on campUS, a local research that was awarded of the XXV Compasso d’Oro (2018) and Human Cities- Challenging the City Scale, an European research project funded by the Creative Programme (2014-18).
In recent years she designed the interiors and services for the Expo Village for Expo Milan 2015, she was the project manager of the last Cumulus Conference in Milan, The Virtuous Circle (2015) and Design Now, an international program of events of the XXI Triennale (2016). She was part of the Editorial Team of the Italian Pavillon for the XXII Triennale (2019).
Chiara Lecce
MA in Interior Design and PhD in Interior Architecture & Exhibition Design (Politecnico di Milano). She is currently research fellow and lecturer of Interior and Spatial Design at the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano. She is executive editor of PAD Journal (Pages on Arts and Design) and of the design history journal AIS/Design Storie e Ricerche. She actively collaborates with the major Italian design archives and foundations.
Andrea Manciaracina
Degree in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano with a focus on the relation between communication design and technological devices for learning. PhD in Design, Research Fellow, graphic designer and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. Since 2002, he has been working on traditional graphics projects, multimedia graphics and installations for companies and institutions and I have been collaborating with the Design System of the Politecnico di Milano (School of Design, Department of Design and Poli.design) on applied research projects and on the management of communication tools for teaching and design orientation. From 2003 to 2017 he taught in numerous courses concerning the disciplines of visual communication and visual design. The research topic currently investigated is the relationship between communication, space and innovative didactics and in particular the relationship between teaching space, educational activity and its management mediated by the use of technologies. Currently, the research activity is focusing on:
1) the creation, in a research team, of guidelines for the preparation of innovative teaching spaces (within this project I am in charge of verifying and validating the choices on technological equipment);
2) the development of meta-project activities, in another research team, within a Design department’s project aimed at the innovation of its teaching and service laboratories.
Anna Cecilia Russo
PhD and Researcher in Design Aesthetics and Communications, mainly focusing on Full Body Thinking and Body/Mind Comfort theories in relation to emerging technologies and smart materials. She holds a Ph.D in Communications Studies [Science de l’Information et de la Communication – with a Thesis in Design Aesthetics] from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 and she is a member of APPLA Research Center in Paris (Centre d’Approches Pragmatiques en Philosophie du Langage et de la Communication) and of MADEC (Materials Design Culture) at Politecnico di Milano.
She previously accomplished an MA Master of Arts in Communications at IMI Brussels and she majored in Art History, at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano. Prior to join Academia she was involved internationally in several editorial and curatorial projects, based on design and art intersections, site specific installations, unconventional materials and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art and experimental design: from one-off wearable/jewelry to furniture.
She has a strong background in Media and News Editing, as former Design Editor and Scout at CondéNast Italy (2005-2014), where she covered design news, outlining trends, and launching new talents, as well as interviewing renowned professionals. She also freelanced for other publishers, and her full list of lifestyle publications ranks hundreds of voices, including articles reedited for twin magazines in Spain and Asia/Pacific formats. While accomplishing her Doctorate, she embarked on a new parallel career path in Education, starting teaching and collaborating with course planning activities at the Master Program of École Boulle in Paris, at the Design School of Politecnico di Milano, and at IES Abroad, US University in Milan.
Between 2016 and 2018 she was one of the official speakers/tutors (English and French) at Design for Enterprises, a free range of courses provided by EU Commission throughout the Member States and associated countries. Since January 2017 she has been part of the Editorial Board of peer reviewed Journal PAD – Pages on Art and Design. Besides long study and research residencies in France, in 2014 she was Research Fellow at Vilém Flusser Archiv – Universität der Kunste – in Berlin.