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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Collana Peer Reviewed

La ricerca ha estratto dal catalogo 45 titoli

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.

cod. 10319.33

Davide Fassi

Food procurement and short food value chains

An analysis of case studies in public and private realms

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.

cod. 10319.32

Davide Spallazzo, Mauro Ceconello

Designing Immersion in Art and Culture

Insights from Artcast4D Project

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.

cod. 10319.31

Cristina Marino

Data design for sustainable fashion

Processes and strategies for systemic innovation design

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.

cod. 10319.30

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

Elena Caratti, Laura Galluzzo

Designing ethically in a complex world

Multiple challenges within design for public and social systems

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.

cod. 10319.28

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

Marta Elisa Cecchi, Clorinda Galasso

Mnemosphere

Designing a Neologism between Memories, Emotions and Atmospheres

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.

cod. 10319.26

Elena Elgani, Umberto Monchiero

Interiors In The Age Of Uncertainty

Future-proofing design practices


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.

cod. 10319.25

Lorena Trebbi

Evolving matter

The future of materials and design in the biofabrication era

Biofabrication is giving us the chance to act a radical change of frame and rethink the way we produce and consume, and more generally the way we live and relate to the Earth habitat through our behaviours – strongly entangled with and influenced by materials, resources and processes we use. The volume aims to provide an insight into how design should approach the transdisciplinary field of biofabrication in order to play an active part in such material revolution, acting on multiple scales and shifting from micro to macro to connect the dots.

cod. 319.13