REAL lab hosts and promotes initiatives based on experimentation and innovation, but maintaining constant contact with the world of the academy.
In this section you will find all the projects related to the research field or relevant because developed according to an innovative methodology.
An initiative can touch several areas so it is possible to propose it in several sections.
For more information click on the project title.
All the initiatives present on REAL-lab are the expression of a fruitful dialogue between the University and the different realities with which the latter is in contact. Some projects, however, are characterized by a specific attention to the advancement of research to produce a result also intended for the academic world. For this reason "research projects" can be considered our business card, a delicate synthesis between very different fields, knowledge and figures.
Research, together with Didactics and the Third Mission, is one of the main areas of action of the University, for this reason the projects available on REAL-lab have a strong experimentation component.
Prototypes in progress. Picture by Roberta Bonetti.
The heterogeneity of the projects is reflected in the range of methods applied in different contexts. The exchange between different fields proves to be a process of enrichment that allows us to always learn something new that we can then apply in our next research: theories and practices of the anthropological discipline can be applied in the world of design, co-design techniques can be used in classrooms, long-term transformative pedagogies can find space in industrial training. These are just a few examples, taken from experiences in the field, that convinced us to dedicate a section of REAL-lab to methodologies. We believe that a project is not only distinguished by the type of result it leads to, but also by the process it has triggered and the people it has involved.
Other ways to do research. Picture by Roberta Bonetti.
