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Ph.D. in Design (DIeCM-Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication) and M.Sc. in Industrial Design from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Currently, he is Adjunct Professor at the School of Design of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (since 2014), where he has been working as a lecturer, researcher and project consultant. From 2015 to 2017, he was Assistant Professor at the Design Department of the University of Chile. From 2003 to 2015, he worked at Politecnico di Milano, as a researcher at the Design Department and lecturer at the School of Design, in the Bachelor and Master Degree Courses in Communication Design.
His main research area is Communication Design. His work focuses on identity systems and packaging design; also, he is interested in social communication and design ethics. In addition, he works on the development of methods and tools in support of design projects, as well as teaching and training activities, for the development of the creativity and the well-being of people.
Professionally, he has worked as a communication designer and strategic advisor for companies and institutions, in projects for the identity of brands, products and services.

Mirko is an architect, Co-Founder and Head of Design of Nyxo Visionary Design, and Lecturer at Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation. He taught Computational design and Design Laboratory at the Academy of Applied Arts LABA - industrial design department, in Rimini. 
He received his Master degree in architecture at Greg Lynn’s masterclass, University of Applied Arts, Institute of Architecture in Vienna, where he has been also a student of François Roche.  

His work has been exhibited internationally in several events including the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2010, Beijing 2010, and Tallin 2017, and in different Design Weeks, including Tokyo, Dubai and Shanghai.

His work consists in the understanding and management of transdisciplinary scenarios, from material systems to production processes. He is interested in using digital computational tools to set up apparatuses of simulation that can offer new aesthetic languages and capable to re-territorialize the products: products as tools to discover horizons of renewed knowledge. 

She is a multi-domain designer with a background in Interaction Design and Gamification. She received a PhD in design studies from Politecnico di Milano. She is researcher at the Institute of Design SUPSI in Southern Switzerland. Her interest, explored through theory and field work in interdisciplinary contexts, includes biocultural design, ecology, traditional knowledge and broader links between design, environmental issues and community-led projects.

 

Dean of the School of Architecture, Art and Design of Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. Designer and Consultant with more than 20 years of experience in innovation for industrial sectors such as furniture, consumer products and mobility. Member of different academic boards and Conferences: Project Oriented Learning Environment (POLE) global platform, the London Design Embassy, the Latin Design Network, the European Academy of Design, the Systems and Design Network, etc.  

His research focuses on the Advanced Design cultures, with particular interest on anticipation processes, the relation between systems and design, and how individuals and organizations develop “advanced” design competencies. 

He holds a Master in Design Management and a Ph.D. in Design from Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. 

He is Professor in Strategic Design and Dean of the School of Creative Industries at Unisinos University (São Leopoldo and Porto Alegre, Brazil). 

His research focuses on complex collaborative design networks developed by designers and other professionals, companies and other types of organization, users and citizens. In this direction, he pays special attention to the collective processes of imagination of other futures and, therefore, of the elaboration of organizational and social scenarios. He developed many research projects for the development of design driven and innovation oriented strategies in collaboration with companies and public administrations, in both Italy and Brazil. 

He is editor of the Strategic Design Research Journal. 

He is member of the Research Group in Strategic Design for Cultural and Social Innovation, the Network for the Development of Design as a Process, the DESIS Network, and the AUSJAL Design Schools Network. With the Advanced Design Unit of the University of Bologna collaborates to imagine the future scenarios of Design education and profession. 

She is a Portuguese designer and design activist. An industrial design graduate with a PhD in Design from the Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon. She has been teaching Design since 2002 and is currently an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.

For the past few years, she has been working on participatory design approaches that place value on processes and people by actively involving them, thereby giving voice to less visible or marginalised groups. In this way, she affirms the activist stance in design and through a conscious choice of process and attention to the product cycle, ensures that it is more human and transparent. Her personal project, CANHOTA, responds to the need for projects rooted in and sustained by design ethics that are committed to developing products, services and strategies through Conscious Design. 

Anna Bernagozzi is professor of design theory and history and researcher t the EnsAD – École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris since 2004 . Additionally, Anna is design consultant, editor for design magazines, organizer of international conferences, seminars and curator of exhibitions on the social role of design in prestigious venues like the Tripostal of Lille, La Villette, Paris, the French Institute of Milan, Italy, the French Institute of Lomé, Togo, the international Biennale of Design for Social Innovation Reciprocity, Musée de la vie Wallonne, Liège, Belgium , the National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taiwan. 

She heads the EnsAD DESIS Group and since 1917 she has been directing the EU research project 4Cs (from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture) with the aim of researching, experiencing and sharing the lesser known, more sober and generous practices and actions of design for social innovation. With its latest exhibition ExpoAction "Infinite Creativity for a finite World" Anna affirms the need for a "civic design" that allows the spectator "actor" to experience and measure the daily impact of his actions and, above all, to enjoy the benefits of their collective resonance. The design contexts are often situated into socially, politically and economically vulnerable, complex and conflicting situations, where co-design is the ideal tool to direct and enhance the infinite creative impulse of each individual through responsible, concrete and restorative actions that respect the fragility of the human being, the living being and the finiteness of the planet, building and composing a sustainable relationship with the other, with time and space, with the environment and the world.

Enrico Bravi is a graphic and information designer based in Vienna (AT). He graduated from 'ISIA Urbino' (IT) and earned a master’s degree at 'Werkplaats Typografie' in Arnhem (NL). His professional experiences across Europe—within companies, organizations, and cultural institutions in particular—have allowed him to develop a skill set which covers several aspects of visual communication, pertaining to both the fields of information design and book design.
Since 2008, he has been a regular lecturer and is currently Professor for Graphic and Information Design at the New Design University in St. Pölten, and lecturer at the Vienna Technical University, Faculty of Architecture.