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She holds the PhD in Industrial Design and she’s currently Assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Design of the Politecnico di Milano. From 1999 to 2009 she has cooperated with the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano designing educational program, coordinating orienteering projects and tutoring activity for foreign students or students on stage. She teaches Industrial design at the undergraduate degree course in Furniture Design and in Product Design since 2006, and from 2014 she’s teaching also at the graduate course of Design for Product Innovation. Her earliest research interests were focused on the forms of knowledge related to design, on their use and translation into skills within the learning systems. The PhD focus around design knowledge and its forms of learning converge on the activities of Metadesign with the purpose to provide an approach to design knowledge, to learn how to learn, to develop metacognitive skills, to acquire autonomy in coding and decoding information. From 2009 to 2011 She has been the secretary of the Advanced Design research group and she has deepened her studies in this area, being interested in the methodological approaches, process design and participatory design. Her most recent research interests are concentrating on advance design and on design process to foster innovation as long-term strategy: on this she has recently published the book Advanced design culture (2015) for Springer. From 2010 she’s one of the coordinator of the Humanities and Design Lab HumanitiesDesign Lab a scientific trans-disciplinary research lab that investigates the relationships between the design disciplines and human and social sciences where she has curated several seminars and lessons on Future Studies topic and on the Design narrations.She’s actually coordinating the FARB basic research project TREND_hub deepening the use of trends in design practice. She has published on «Strategic Design Journal», «Design Management Journal (DMJ)»,«The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies» and «Futures».

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Researcher and assistant professor at the DESIGN Department since 2008, PhD in Interior Architecture. She is part of the faculty of the Interior Design Course at the Design School of Politecnico di Milano, co-director of the Master Course in Urban Interior Design - Public Living Spaces in Contemporary Cities at Politecnico di Milano. Within the LEM.design research team of the Design Dept., she belongs to "DHOC - Design for Hospitable City” group. DHOC deals with researches on the urban context and on new forms of hospitability where different users (multi-ethnical and multi-identity) could live together, where private and public areas could be integrated, where a new and high form of sociality could be imagined. Their researches aim to design interior and exterior urban spaces, to set up new kind of hospitality in the contemporary city, through temporary, diffused services, new quality for public spaces, innovative models of re-use of disused spaces. Her most recent research: “DeCa Design Cultures Hospitality. Settings for refugee centres in Milan city”. [Politecnico’s Social Responsibility Programme funds _coordinator]; “Post-metropolitan territories as urban emerging forms: the challenges for sustainability, habitability and governance”. [University and research Department funds – MIUR _partner]; “Living tomorrow” [EU Culture Programme _partner]. Her didactic activities support the Polisocial programme, the University responsibility programme, and are part of the GIDE network (Group for International Design Education, a network of 7 european design school).

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She is Associate Professor at Dept. of Design, Politecnico di Milano Design School. Her field are Design for cultural heritage in terms of exhibit development and museography, event design, strategy and communication for enhancing local areas, new technologies and communication registers for narrative and cultural advancement, and the relation of design to humanities and the arts. She is part of scientific board of the Phd Program in Design and Dean of the Master in Exhibition Design. She is on the steering committee of the HumanitiesDesign Lab and a founding member of the International Forum Design as a Process. She leads and participates to several international research on design for cultural heritage. She teaches in several master’s programs, including Exhibit Design, Interior Design and Designing Culture, Urban Interior Design, Preventive conservation and planned for the enhancement of cultural heritage, Collection/Exhibition Registar per l'arte contemporanea e il design, Regional Marketing, Management of cultural, environmental and landscape resources. Her overseas teaching and research experience embraces Unisinos Universidade Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Tongji University of Shanghai, China; University of Dundee, Scotland; Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina; YSUAC University, Yerevan, Armenia and Universidad El Bosque, Bogotà, Colombia.

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Chiara Colombi, PhD is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano - Design Dept. and faculty member of Fashion Design Program of the School of Design - Politecnico di Milano. Co-founder of the research collective Fashion in Process, her research interests concern knowledge creation processes, codification of meta-design research praxis, retailing and development of merchandising systems in “culture intensive” industries, with a specific focus on the fashion sector.

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Designer. Contract professor at Politecnico of Milan, School of Design. Post-Doctoral research fellow at Fondazione Fratelli Confalonieri in 2013. Doctor of Philosophy in Design & Technologies for Cultural Heritage since 2011. She works as consultant researcher in Politecnico of Milan - Design Dept & Architecture Dept - mainly on interior and exhibit design. She works as freelance in the field of communication design.

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She graduated in Furniture Design at the Politecnico di Milano in 2009; in 2011 she graduated (master degree) in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano. In 2010 she began her adventure in the design world thanks to the design company Progetti srl. In 2013 she began working with the design company Ecoepoque. Since 2011 she has been working regularly with Alberto and Paolo Sala’s ASPS design and communication studio in Milan. She always designs products that reflect her personality with a little bit of eccentricity and uniqueness, being continuously inspired by new trends and innovations coming from all different areas of industrial product.

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