Skilling and learning through DiDIY: the role of (Co-)Design
Talk to Design Research Society (DRS) international conference “Design + Research + Society: Future-Focused Thinking”
design
Exhibition: 3D Printing, the Factory of the Future
“3D Printing, the Factory of the Future” (“Impression 3D, l’usine du futur”) is a special exhibition dedicated entirely to 3D printing technology.
Trajectories of Design for Digital DIY
The current trend of self-production activities is reshaping the role of professional designers in a society where everyone does design. Manzini – one of the most acknowledged researcher in the design field – investigated this topic in his recent book (2015). At the presentation of the book, the author stressed that designers should improve the capability of people to create their own biographies.
To this end, designers can contribute by designing ‘enabling solutions’, i.e.
What next in 3D technology: from formal design towards descriptive representation
Low bandwidth technologies favoured sparse, formal representations of the real world: from musical notation, to line plans of buildings. With increasing storage and computing power, these will be supplanted by more detailed, "descriptive", representations that are beyond human power to directly produce and understand.
Online Design Sharing Platforms for Digital DIY
A brief comparative study comparing online design sharing platforms. Aspects considered are the main features it provides to the users, how sharing is encouraged, what licenses used and ownership and governance models of the platform.
See a summary in this blog post.
Marita Canina (TT1 Leader)
She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Design. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Design and Design Dept at Politecnico di Milano, where she is also in charge of scientific co-ordination within and between the IDEActivity Center and the BioDesign Laboratory.
