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Thursday, 12 November
10.00 Registration /check-in desk / Il Ciani
Morning sessions
10.45
Giovanni Anceschi, University Iuav of Venice / Massimo Botta, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Hypermodern? Perspectives for the Design Education, Research and Practice
11.30
Kristian Kloeckl, University Iuav of Venice
Changing Connections – The Role of Connections in Products Between Traditional and New Technologies
12.15
Pelle Ehn, Malmö University Design
Things and Living Labs – Participatory design and design as infrastructuring
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon parallel sessions
14.00
/ Workshop / Isabel Rosa Müggler, Stijn Ossevoort, HSLU Art & Design / Ralf Michel, Zurich University of the Arts
Modification of Surfaces. How to start a research perspective on the interaction of design & technology
/ Workshop / Arne Scheuermann, Claudia Mareis, HKB Berne / Laurent Marti, FHNW Academy of Art and Design
Actor-network theory in design research
/ Workshop / Lysianne Léchot Hirt, Jerome Baratelli, Carlo Parmigiani, HEAD Haute École d’Art et de Design – Genève
Debriefing as methodological tool for design research
/ Workshop / Elizabeth Roche, Gianluca Brugnoli, FrogDesign
Meet frogThink(TM): Bridging the Gap between Research and Innovation.
/ Panel / Alain Findeli, FHNW & School of Architecture CRESSON / Noëlle von Wyl, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
How Political Is Design Research?
/ Panel / Medardo Chiapponi, Kristian Kloeckl / University Iuav of Venice / Alvise Benedetti, CIVEN
Design and Nanotechnology – Creating Connections Between Research in Nanotechnology and Industrial Design
/ Presentation / Luca Guerrini, Politecnico di Milano / PhD students: Hyojin Gina Nam, Product Design Unit, Francesca Telli, Interior Design Unit, Federica Vacca, Fashion Design Unit, Alessandra Spagniol, Cultural Heritage Design Unit, Marina Carulli, Design and Engineering Research Unit, Irina Suteu, Communication Design Unit
Educating for Research – The New Phd Program in Design at the Politecnico of Milan
16.00 Coffee break
End of the day sessions
16.15
Jürgen Schmidhuber, University of Lugano / University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Art & Science as By-Products of Search for Novel Patterns, or Data Compressible in Unknown Yet Learnable Ways
17.15 – 19.15
Swiss Universities Art and Design
Design research in the new MA-programs
19.30 Conference dinner
Friday, 13 November
9.00 Registration /check-in desk / Cinema Corso
Morning sessions
9.15
Francesca Rizzo, Politecnico di Milano
Co-created by Customers or Co-designed by End-Users?
10.00
Giuseppe O. Longo, University of Trieste
The Epistemological Turn: Technology, Bricolage and Design
10.45 Coffee break
Parallel sessions
11.30
/ USERS
Julien McHardy, Lancaster University
Make-shift Ciopfaspovs: an exploration of users in design
Guillermina Noël, University Iuav of Venice
Assessing language and communications impairments. The role of visual communication design
Mario Doulis, FHNW School of Engineering
Virtual reality – Between technology and imagination
/ PARADIGMS
Marita Canina, Politecnico di Milano
Design for pro-active wearability
Giuseppe Salvia, Politecnico di Milano
Nature’s contribution to design: biomimetic approach as a mediation between biological and engineering sciences
Maurizio Rossi, Andrea Siniscalco, Politecnico di Milano / Fabio Zanola, Artemide Group
From physiology to a new sustainable lighting design: the “My white light” case study
/ SENSE AND MEANING
Tobie Kerridge, Goldsmiths, University of London
Does speculative design contribute to public engagement of science and technology?
Björn Franke, Royal College of Art
Design as a medium for inquiry
Françoise Adler, HSLU Art & Design
Designing smart clothes for the user. Product semantics of smart clothes
/ COOPERATIONS
François Jégou, Strategic Design Scenarios, Brussels
Enlightening collaborative design sessions of objects proposing energy-saving practices
Stefano Vannotti, Zurich University of the Arts
Blending participatory design, agile methods, and action research in the design of digital repositories
Minou Afzali, HKB Berne University of the Arts
Aggression management in general hospitals: a collaborative nursing science-design research project
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon sessions
14.15
Turkka Keinonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki
Design Method – Instrument, Competence or Agenda?
15.00
Rachel Wingfield, University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins / Hannah Jones, Goldsmiths, University of London
METABOliCITY: how can design nurture amateur cultures of food production in the city?
16.00 Closure
