Ideas and the Matter DIGITAL
MADEC participates in IHSI 2019 CONFERENCE AS FOUNDATION MEMBER OF DESign4materials network
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 ››
Circular Material for Creative Industries: The Emerging Bioplastics
This is a research activity related to MaDe - Material Designers International Project. MADEC contributes to the project, the research activity, and workshops in the Politecnico di Milano. Our contribution mainly deals with Circular Materials for Creative Industries.
The project MaDe is run by the organizations Elisava, Ma-tt-er, and Politecnico di … Continue Reading ››
The Ultra Surfaces Vision
Investigating the relationship between the physical and the digital dimension of new surfaces has been one of the main tasks of MADEC in the last years.
On this topic, we give our contribution to the ICS_Materials research, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano.
After approaching a subtle link … Continue Reading ››
Multisensorial experience and emotional involvement with surfaces
La ricerca “Materiali, design ed estetica. Esperienze e coinvolgimenti in Abet laminati”, è una collaborazione con l'azienda ABET Laminati. La ricerca svolta presso MADEC a partire dal 2018 intende contribuire all’avanzamento degli studi sulla percezione dei materiali, delineando una metodologia orientata al design, utile all’analisi delle implicazioni della matericità delle superfici. Queste implicazioni … Continue Reading ››
Augmented Materials for Tangible Interfaces: Experimenting with Young Designers
This paper deals with the design of emerging, augmented, ICS materials in the framework of a Design-Driven Material Innovation approach, presenting a selection of concepts of Tangible Interfaces, developed during a workshop held at Politecnico di Milano. In the attempt to include digital tech- nologies in product and interior design, enhancing human experience … Continue Reading ››
ICS Materials lectures and seminars promoted by MADEC
MADEC promotes the following lectures and seminars on ICS Materials that will take place at the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano.
- Monday 06/11, h.14.15 | Campus Bovisa, B2.3.4
“ARGUING THE CASE FOR HOLISTIC DESIGN:
unpacking the relationship between materials and interactive experience”
Lecturer: Daniela Petrelli | Professor of Interaction Design at … Continue Reading ››
Sustainable materials from conifer needles
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 ››
A new fully biodegradable plastic from tomato skin
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 ››
Materials for the Circular Economy
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 ››