Prof. Francesco Zurlo, Dean of the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano, and Prof. Marinella Ferrara, Coordinator of MADEC Research Team, were invited to attend Salone del Mobile.Milano in Riyadh and its three-day cultural … Continue Reading ››
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The MADEC research group of the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano proudly celebrates the graduation of the first cohort of the Higher Diploma in Traditional Product Development, a program developed in collaboration with the Royal Institute of Traditional Arts (WRTH) in … Continue Reading ››
Bio-Smart Materials for Product Design Innovation
In the framework of design-driven material innovation approach and cross-disciplinary research practices, the aim of the MADEC's contribution is to make clear how Bio-Smart Materials are creating new opportunities to realize answers to the complex needs … Continue Reading ››
MADEC promotes the following lectures and seminars on ICS Materials that will take place at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano.
“ARGUING THE CASE FOR HOLISTIC DESIGN:
unpacking the relationship between materials and interactive experience”
Lecturer: Daniela Petrelli | Professor of Interaction Design at … Continue Reading ››
di Chiara Catgiu
The pine needles are nowadays of interest for the materials industry.
Pine is one of the most common type of tree, so there is no shortage of pine needles. Tapping into this organic, biologically degradable resource is, moreover, a simple matter, involving cooperation with branches of industry that use … Continue Reading ››
di Chiara Catgiu
A new fully sustainable and biodegradable plastic has been obtained from the tomato peel and it has been discovered starting from different projects and collaborations.
The EU-funded BIOPROTO (Bioplastic production from tomato peel residues) project main objective is in fact the fabrication of bio-plastics from the tomato fruit peel … Continue Reading ››
di Chiara Catgiu
A linear economy, that extracts resources at increasing rates, according to the principles of take-make-dispose, without consideration of the environment in which it operates, cannot continue indefinitely. The concept of a circular economy promises a way out. Here products do not quickly become waste, but they are reused to extract their maximum value before … Continue Reading ››
di Naike Cogliati
Potreste mai immaginare di usare il legno per produrre celle solari trasparenti? Ebbene sì, fra qualche anno sarà possibile e nel frattempo un team del KTH Reale Institute of Technology di Stoccolma sta mettendo a punto il cosiddetto ‘legno trasparente’, ovvero un tipo di impiallacciatura in cui il componente delle pareti cellulari viene spogliato … Continue Reading ››
DESIGN FOR MATERIAL is a module of the “Design for Enterprises” training course, completely free and online for European SMEs, designers and intermediary organization by European Union.
The author of this module is Marinella Ferrara. She is a professor of Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano and coordinator of the Material Design Culture Research Center … Continue Reading ››
