Design International

DESIGN INTERNATIONAL SERIES

Direction: Silvia Piardi

Scientific Board:
Alessandro Biamonti, Alba Cappellieri, Mauro Ceconello, Claudio Germak, Ezio Manzini, Carlo Martino, Promil Pande, Mario Piazza, Angelica Ponzio, Francesco Scullica, Francesca Tosi, Yingchun Zang

Editorial Board:
Alessia Brischetto, Alessio Caccamo, Barbara Camocini,
Giuseppe Carmosino, Eugenia Chiara, Andrea Di Salvo, Elena Elgani,
Silvia Gramegna, Shashwat M. Pande, Gustavo Alfonso Rincon,
Fabiano Scherer, Daniela Selloni, Davide Spallazzo, Livia Tenuta

The Design International series was launched in 2017 as a place for cultural exchange between the different design souls. Over the years, the series has consolidated its position as a point of reference for international research, outlining a continuously updated research map.
The Scientific Committee, consisting of experts in fashion, interiors, graphics, communication, product, service, social interaction, innovation and emotional design guarantees the level of the accepted texts. The Editorial Board, consisting of young experts in the different branches of design, supports the work of the scientific committee. After an initial evaluation by the two committees, the texts undergo international double revision.
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La ricerca ha estratto dal catalogo 56 titoli

Maurizio Rossi, Davide Spallazzo

Digitally enhanced design

Breakthrough tools, processes, and expressive potentials

The book explores evolving perspectives on furniture, interior, spatial and architectural design, providing a multifaceted view of how the design discipline and practice deal with the complex and ever-evolving interplay between the physical and the digital realms. It explores the new frontiers of digitally enhanced design, investigating how computation capabilities impact the design discipline and designers’ thinking and practice, proposing captivating portraits of digitally enhanced design possibilities, from tools and processes to expressive potentials.

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cod. 10319.9

Nithiku Nimkulrat, Silvia Deborah Ferraris

Prototyping and Experiential Knowledge

Unfolding shifting views on the use of prototypes in design research

This volume examines the evolving role of prototypes in design research, emphasizing their function as intentional and transient objects that facilitate the transition from abstract concepts to concrete design outcomes. The book investigates how prototyping contributes to knowledge generation, design process development, and the articulation of experiential understanding.

cod. 10319.39

Paola Bertola, Agnese Rebaglio

Design Philology Essays. Issue One

Issue One extends Design Philology Essays from origins to an expanded, research-driven atlas of Italian academic design. Anchored in the platform’s digital archive, editorial environment, and hypertextual infrastructure, the volume deepens inquiry into genealogies, platforms, and frontiers that have shaped the Design System at Politecnico di Milano and across Italy.

cod. 10319.37

Paola Bertola, Carmen Bruno

Designing the Transition

Seven design perspectives to build capacities for people, organisations and ecosystems

This book explores how design can build capacities for individuals, organizations, and ecosystems, enabling them to navigate the complexities of sustainability transitions. The book introduces the ECODeCK project, a design-driven capacitybuilding model developed to support sustainable transitions in the manufacturing sector.

cod. 10319.41

Paola Bertola, Giampiero Bosoni

Design Philology Essays. Issue Zero

Design at Politecnico di Milano: The Beginning of a Story

In October 1993, the first Bachelor’s Degree Program in Industrial Design in Italy was inaugurated at Politecnico di Milano. This volume – Issue Zero – launches a publishing initiative that, grounded in a reflection on the historical memory and cultural roots of Politecnico di Milano’s Design System, aims to sustain the distinctive forward-looking spirit of Polytechnic design culture. Its goal is to place design at the service of today’s cultural, social, technological, and environmental challenges.

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cod. 10319.33

Paola Cordera, Raffaella Trocchianesi

Design challenges in creative systems

Theories, methods and practices for sustainability and inclusion

This volume focuses on the dynamic systems of creativity and culture within diverse design fields, merging theoretical reflections, case studies, methodologies, technologies, tools, and original practices. Twelve essays underscore design’s role in sustainability, emphasizing local growth, community revitalization, and the co-creation of cultural, economic, and social values.

cod. 10319.29

Silvia Barbero, Amina Pereno

Packaging Design in the Digital Age

A systemic approach to e-commerce

This volume offers a critical reading of Packaging Design in the Digital Age, tackling the issue of packaging for e-commerce and the strategies that designers can put in place with a view to sustainable innovation. Then the book explores the main types of e-commerce system to identify the existing material and immaterial flows and the related problems, from which the authors set out future systemic visions towards sustainable development. Case studies of packaging and e-commerce systems complement the different chapters to offer practical examples of innovation.

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cod. 319.11

Silvia Maria Gramegna

Interior design as a tool for dementia care

Experiences and guidelines for the Therapeutic Habitat Model

This book investigates the role of interior design in the enhancement of the effectiveness of Non-Pharmacological therapies for Alzheimer’s disease care.  The author presents the conceptual model for an environmental system called “Therapeutic Habitat”, meant as a system of environmental interventions, based on tangible and intangible aspects, products and furniture, objects and services. Its aim is to enhance the well-being of people with dementia and stimulate recognition and interaction with the surrounding environment.

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cod. 10319.8

Sonia Massari

Food Design for the Real World

Design by and for food: place-based innovation and transformative design

This book explores the transformative potential of design within agri-food systems. Inspired by Victor Papanek’s call to address real human needs, the book adopts a transdisciplinary and situated approach to investigate food as both a medium and an object of design.
Blending theory and practice, it traces the evolution of the food design field and introduces a six-mediation framework for understanding food experience.

cod. 10319.36

Stefana Broadbent, Silvia Ferraris

Embracing change and supporting transitions

Approaches to systemic change in products, services and systems

The volume presents a series of studies and reflections on how design is approaching the transition towards more uncertain futures: novel ways of integrating new disciplines such as data analysis, artificial intelligence, neurosciences into practice and theory and explore the extension of design processes to develop new frameworks for tackling major societal and environmental changes.

cod. 10319.27

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