Agnese Rebaglio

A little bit about me

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).