Manuela Celi

A little bit about me

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».