Design International - Open Access

The PPP-URB project is a key initiative within the Onfoods PNRR research program, aimed at reimagining urban food systems. The project investigates the role of food ecosystems in small territorial units, with a particular focus on university campuses, to understand their influence on local systems.

Designing Immersive Technologies in Art and Culture explores how immersive technologies are transforming artistic and cultural experiences, blending the physical and artificial worlds to create engaging environments. The book comprehensively reviews the current literature on immersion. It moves beyond theory to explore public installations, demonstrating how technology is transforming everyday spaces into immersive experiences.

The data revolution has reshaped our understanding of design, merging tradition and innovation in a world increasingly driven by complex data systems. This book explores the intersection of data science, design, and sustainability, with a particular focus on the fashion industry. It delves into how designers, historically skilled in tackling challenges posed by new technologies, are now navigating the data-rich environment.

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.

This volume focuses on the ethical challenges of design for public and social systems, attempting to clarify what it means to design ethically in a complex world and how it is possible to do so, within a multifaceted reality in which everything is interconnected and constantly changing.

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.

This book is a collection of essays written by authors from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds, offering various points of view on Mnemosphere, which still does not have an unambiguous definition, drawing inspiration for considerations and insights: the interaction between the spheres of memories, emotions, and atmospheres.

The aim of this publication is to investigate how spatial design, and in particular interior design, has reacted and continues to respond to the everchanging transformations of the contemporary scenario, considering both the conceptual-designing dimension in the definition of spaces and the operational-executive dimension, which cannot be separated from the completion of a design process.