Full Professor in Interior Architecture and Exhibit of Politecnico di Milano, Design School and Architecture School. He is an expert of Theory and History of Design with a focus on furniture and everyday use objects.
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Dr. Beatrice Bianco
Research Fellow
Research Fellow at Politecnico di Milano, Project Coordinator in Design Education, and Former Founder and Director of Camp Design Gallery, she bridges the gap between historical academic inquiry and practical design in contemporary material culture. With a strong academic foundation in Archaeology and Ancient History from the École Pratique des Hautes Études and an MBA in Management of Cultural Events and the Art Market from Paris, she has consistently explored material culture across both historical and modern contexts.
Yi Sui
PhD Candidate
Yi sui is a Politecnico di Milano PhD candidate. Her research focuses on enhancing user experience through shape-change material. Continue reading Yi Sui
Jingyu Xu
PhD Candidate
Jingyu Xu is a Politecnico di Milano PhD candidate. Her research interests include ceramic design and theory research, recycling design, traditional culture redesign, and material innovation.
Zehan Shang
External Collaborator
Zehan Shang is an industrial designer and researcher exploring the intersections between traditional crafts and contemporary design. He gets his both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Product Design from Politecnico di Milano.
Sara Bologna
External Collaborator
Sara Bologna is a designer, design consultant and researcher based in Milan.
Focusing on the anthropological and intangible aspects of material culture, she conceives artifacts as narrative mediums that can surface alternate sets of values, to steer systemic change. Her imagery is permeated with rituals, symbols, graffiti from the creases of pre-history, fragments of poems, and grimoires. All these inspirations are deconstructed and reconstructed based on iconographic, semantic and historical insight, and turned into objects through a narrative-driven approach.
Dr. Murat Bengisu
External Collaborator
PhD in Materials Engineering. Head of Design Studies Master’s and PhD programs at Izmir University of Economics (IUE). Instructor at the Industrial Design Department at IUE. His research interest includes materials for design, smart materials, borate glasses, engineering ceramics, biomaterials, biomimetics, linguistics of design, technological forecasting, disability and work, design history, and text mining.
Chiara Catgiu
External Collaborator
Chiara has received her Master degree and Bachelor degree in Materials Engineering and Nanotechnology from Politecnico di Milano. She is passionate about the Materials & Design relationship.
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