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 programme “Red in Progress”.
Design as an Active Interpreter of Cultural Heritage
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The MADEC research group of the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano announces the launch of the Master in Traditional Furniture Design, an innovative educational program aimed at building a bridge between contemporary design innovation and the rich cultural heritage of Saudi Arabia.
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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 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Continue reading A Shared Milestone: Celebrating the First Graduates of the Higher Diploma in Traditional Product Development
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 of contemporary society. Emerging Bio-smart Materials create new opportunities to answers the complex needs of contemporary. Continue reading MADEC participates in IHSI 2019 CONFERENCE AS FOUNDATION MEMBER OF DESign4materials network
MADEC promotes the following lectures and seminars on ICS Materials that will take place at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano.
Continue reading ICS Materials lectures and seminars promoted by MADEC
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 the wood from the pines, but not their needles. And the use of pine needles is said to have another significant benefit, when we think how effective the essential oils in pine needles are at keeping insects away.
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 residues. They are an abundant and inexpensive waste from processing tomato industries rich in polysaccharides (chiefly cellulose, pectin and hemicelluloses) and lipids (soluble waxes and a non-soluble long- chain biopolyester named cutin). Specifically, the project is focused on the bio-mimicry of the plant cuticle that is the protective and outermost membrane that covers the plant epidermis of parts of plant organs exposed to air.
Continue reading A new fully biodegradable plastic from tomato skin
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 safely and productively returning to the biosphere.1
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 chimicamente.
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