During the last six months I have been honoured to work as the administrator of the website, newsletter and blog of the Changing the Change conference, which will be held in Turin on 10th-11th-12th of July 2008:
http://www.changingthechange.org
This conference will be an international social event dedicated to study how design (and especially design research) could help [...]

Tags: Design Research, Internet, Italy, Sustainability, University

Thanks to Stefano Mizzella, we have an interview with Gianandrea Giacoma about Sci(bzaar)net (in Italian) that summarizes the event’s main themes and conclusions. The interview can be found on the last number of 7thfloor magazine and here on Scribd:

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Here is the presentation for the lesson I gave yesterday at Politecnico di Milano, Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale Paesaggi in Corsa (P1 - I1).

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Next week, on 24th October 2007, I’m going to give a lesson at the Politecnico di Milano, Facoltà del Design, where I am a project expert (or assistant professor, if you prefere) in the Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale P1 course.
Right now I’m working on the presentation, and I think it’s going to be a [...]

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