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XIV cycle Simona Maschi Design and system innovation. Generating shared design scenarios Doctorate program focused on "design driven innovation". This work is based on Scenario Design intended as a way to drive business innovation using tools, expertise and attitudes typical of design processes. It adopts an interdisciplinary design approach concerning with scenario planning, systemic innovation and strategic design advisor: Ezio Manzini advisor: Ezio Manzini Matteo Ingaramo Trends in working places: environment and new technologies The research aim is a reading of the evolution process that is occurring in the production and the design of the equipments for the intellectual job. The aim of the research is to produce a map that evidences their influence, their possible correlations, their potential like design tools. Final target is the drawing up of a design procedure that produces a jump of innovation in the evolution of the working activities. advisor: Francesco Trabucco Antonia Teatino Competences, tools, and design strategies for the diffusion of enviromental requirements of industrial product in small and medium concerns and local production system. This PhD research in industrial design, on the whole, aims at reasoning on competences, strategies, tools and knowledge for the development of products and services at low environmental impact, supposing of integration environmental requirements in small and medium enterprises included in to local product systems. In particular, the research aims at identifyng ways, approaches , for the development of new design eco-concepts of products and services at low environmental impact on the basis of a knowledge linked to tools, software, guidelines of services to the enterprises. advisor: Carlo Vezzoli Mario Faicchia Weightless projects Collaboration with Alenia for the planning of soft panels for the boundaries of the spaces on the CRV, development of a web database for the management of the materials and of the processes, collaboration with Alenia and CNR-ITIA for the mass sting of a virtual system for the trainning of the astronauts and the testing of the products, search of new systems for the virtual and rapid manufactoring on board of the spaceship destined to the mission to Mars. advisor: Francesco Trabucco Camillo Sassano Ultra-mobile informatics applications Today's computing and communication technologies support a wide range of possible scenarios for mobile applications. Using research tools to analyse the environment of the user in terms of rules, procedures, constrains and human factors, could make new products perform. Wearable computers, applied into complex information environment, would "empower" workers performing specific tasks. Industrial Design research represents a way to strategically develop complete systems of task-oriented products. advisor: Giovanni Anceschi Dijon De Moraes The Local-Global Relation: new challenges and design opportunities Brazil as a local case. The reality of world globalisation is causing a fast and radical change in the world production and marketing scenario. At the core of the discussion it's the emerging of new production capacity through the Newly Industrialised Countries Ü NICs. In this research, taking into consideration the case of Brazil, we suggest to consider the effects of globalisation in a regional environment and to analyse its consequences on industrial production and local design. advisor: Andrea Branzi, Ezio Manzini Amilton Arruda Bionic Basic: Towards new model of project research Analysis of several factors which influence projecting field such as: studio basic design, meta-projects developments, conceptual aspects of research and project, projecting phase; it's possible to identify the existence of a methodological and specific research, which allows to apply natural/biological references, within the ambit of projecting. advisor: Giovanni Anceschi XV cycle Giovanna Vitale The visible museum Models and forms of museum system communication. An investigation on the issues investing the communication design for cultural institutions: from traditional supports to the coordination of communication actions, from visibility to the building of a visual identity.Ê advisor: Giovanni Anceschi Lucia Rampino Future scenerios for white household appliance. The culture about food, its preparation and presevation. The aim of this research is to investigate new possible innovation matrixes for household appliances. These matrixes should be coherent with the great structural changes of the society and with the new cultural and technological contexts. It is possible to prime new product ideas by investigating the latent needs of the market, through a research procedure of new qualities of use, methodologically and culturally near to the creative process of the industrial design. advisor: Francesco Trabucco Daniela Sangiorgi Towards a culture in Service design. Theoretical references and practical tools for an emerging discipline. The research aims at contributing to the definition of a service design culture, in terms of focalization of its acting area, clarification of its role, delimitation and elaboration of a first foundation of competences and at building of some practical design tools. advisor: Giuliano Simonelli Manuela Celi Design and education. Methods, strategy and tools for on-line learning. The arts of knowledge, the capability to use to advantage and translate it to competence, are the focus of a problem area wich has as nucleus the reform of didactic and educational sistem. The aim of the research is to contribute to e-lerning development and to long life learning in Industrial design area studying the needs for access and connectivity and exploring different kind of technical possibilities available for supporting e-learning as a new perspective for Design teaching. advisor: Antonella Penati advisor: Antonella Penati Fatina Saikaly Towards the establishment of alternative relationships between the theoretical and practical dimensions of doctoral research in design. A gap exists in the relationship between theory and practice in the field of design research. This fact is to imply a direction of research methods, "research through design", where theory may join practice. Assuming that the theoretical models of design, the modes of design thinking, the research learning and knowledge creation are underlying the doctoral research in design, alternative relationships are to be established between its theoretical and practical dimensions. advisor: Silvia Pizzocaro Marcella Ottolenghi Design for industrial districts. Industrial designÕs new roles and competences, in relationship with crafts production, for the competitiveness of Italians local productive systems. The research is meant to define whatÕs crafts today and where it is located inside the Italian local productive systems, to define a "practical knowledge"Õs map. The aim is to define an actual and useful relation between crafts and design, always conflictually related. advisor: Giuliano Simonelli Jaime Pardo Gibson The role of industrial design in planning and development of products for large buyers and consumers of the public administration. The Industrial Design has the potential to act, with planning and developing instruments, in the product purchases of the Public Administration searching for new production and consumption models that lead to sustainable development. The research's main goal is to define methodological support instruments for the product planning and development for the large buyers particularly for the Public Administration. advisor: Alberto Cigada XVI cycle Nicoletta Morrone New car sharing equipments for a sustainable mobility system. The aim of this research is to reduce urban traffic. To achieve this objective we want to project new vehicle equipments for a low emission car sharing service. Today, most car sharing organizations doesnÕt use technological instruments to manage the service. This is the mainly reason why the potential users are so far away from car sharing. In the past technologies werenÕt available, but now there are many research institutes that test new instruments and new devices to improve vehicleÕs equipments, like smart card, GPS, diagnostic instrument, travel software etc. advisor: Francesco Trabucco Gianluca Mura The Design Museum of Milan. Survey for the definition of an exhibition system and interactive multimediale promotion for artefacts and cultural events of design. The design Museum of Milano. Survey for the definition of an exhibiting and multimedial system for design cultural events. Design artefacts, being highly represenative of the town identity related to design, still lack the definition of a suitable system of articulation. advisor: Alberto Seassaro Silvia Ferraris Habitability in space under micro-gravitational conditions. Object of the research is a survey of the habitability conditions in space, particularly on the International Space Station, with the intention of individualizing, investigating and proposing possible design interventions finalized to the increase of astronauts well being. It is wished to obtain possible transfers to all the circumstances in which the comfort can be implemented: from living in extreme environments to more common situations in daily life. advisor: Francesco Trabucco Valentina Rognoli The aesthetic characterization of the materials for design. The research is developed in a survey on the categories of the materials aspect and their surfaces. The primary intention is the deepening and the definition of the systems of notation, the parameters of aesthetic characterization and the factors of sensory perception that supply useful criteria for a classification of materials for the design. The objective is the construction of a theoretical base for the realization of a design instrument that could bring a contribution to the culture of industrial design and that could help to interpret and to define the complex field of the phenomenal and perceptive aspects of the materials and their surface. advisor: Alberto Cigada Massimo Botta Basic Design of the complexity. Theory and design of complex communication systems. The research will try to define a theory for the design practice of complex communication systems, starting from the Communication Design discipline and the notion of System of Writing. From this notion the research will develop a graphic information theory useful for designing complex communication systems. advisor: Giovanni Anceschi Luigi Brenna Cultural Design. The role of the Industrial Design in the project of the "Place Value" of the product-city. The object of the research is the industrial design seen as an instrument to project the "place value". In other words the aim is to demonstrate how the territorial realities need the holistic and pragmatic approach, typical of the discipline of Industrial Design, in order to take advantage from their own local resources. advisor: Francesco Mauri Christian Galli New museum forms for italian design districts The present debate on innovative museum solutions moves from structural transformations investing the changing relation between design, firm and social structure. The town of Milano requires the testing of museum systems allowing all the information the complexity of the district implies. advisor: Andrea Branzi Alessandro Biamonti An environmental system for learning spaces The project is born within a PhD research about "The Space of Learning", in the light of the evolution of IT and knowledge communication.The project's goal is the development of an instrument to design the environmental learning system for the university. advisor: Andrea Branzi