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Papers by Luisa Collina

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Innovative Classroom and Informal Learning Space: The Sense of Belonging and Positive Learning Experience

EDULEARN Proceedings

AROUND THE CAMPFIRE – Resilience and Intelligence, 2019

The Design for a Welcoming City: Urban Space and Visitor Flow

Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics, 2020

This chapter explores the new ways of living and moving through and across urban spaces, inside a... more This chapter explores the new ways of living and moving through and across urban spaces, inside an information and technology society. It introduces a design perspective, presenting a real case history: the new Visitor Space in Milan, crafted thanks to a scientific agreement between the Politecnico di Milano and the Chamber of Commerce of Milano, Monza Brianza and Lodi. It is an accurate design project to welcome people in an environment where private and public dimensions, as well as analog and digital components, come together creating a multisensory experience, favoring different ways to perceive and live a city.

Proceedings of the Cumulus Milano 2015 Conference – The Virtuous Circle. Design Culture and Experimentation

Miglior Cluster Zone Aride. Agricoltura e Nutrizione

La ricerca intitolata ‘Agricoltura e Nutrizione nelle Zone Aride’ presentata nel Cluster Zone Ari... more La ricerca intitolata ‘Agricoltura e Nutrizione nelle Zone Aride’ presentata nel Cluster Zone Aride, ha indagato sul significato dell’espressione ‘Zone Aride e sugli scenari che caratterizzano tali territori, eterogenei, densi di problematiche, ma anche di risorse, e popolazioni molto differenti tra loro. La scarsità d’acqua è la condizione che caratterizza le Zone Aride e, con essa, il rischio di desertificazione del territorio. L’acqua per l’idratazione, la sanità e il cibo, è quindi il contesto tematico nel quale sono stati individuati casi studio di progettualità, e quindi afferenti all’ambito di ricerca del design, finalizzati a ridurre gli effetti delle problematiche che caratterizzano questi luoghi. La tradizione e la cultura materiale delle Zone Aride risultano essere ambiti privilegiati di ricerca anche per l’innovazione in rapporto alla sostenibilità dello sviluppo futuro a livello globale

Design e Metaprogetto. Teorie, strumenti, pratiche

Una riflessione sulle metodologie e gli strumenti progettuali del design a partire dalla tradizio... more Una riflessione sulle metodologie e gli strumenti progettuali del design a partire dalla tradizione metaprogettuale

Science for Citizens Campus'. New Methods for Research and Learning Environments

ICERI Proceedings, 2017

This paper focuses on the evolving requirements of learning and research environments based on an... more This paper focuses on the evolving requirements of learning and research environments based on an on-field ongoing research aimed at defining a meta-design project for the ‘Science for Citizens Campus’, the new State University of Milan facilities to be settled in the former Milano Expo 2015 site. The specific aim of this work is to present the innovative research methodology which has been purposely conceived - being the strategic design of the process an instrumental component to achieve the final result

Material and technique, process and pattern in contemporary architecture and design

i – Suite, un nuovo modello di ospitalità a Rimini

Sempering - Process and pattern in architecture and design

This paper describes an experimental teaching project for a student dormitory building in Milan, ... more This paper describes an experimental teaching project for a student dormitory building in Milan, Italy; and through this applied project the paper presents possible relationships between spatial (environment and experience design) and service design. A human-centered design process was used, exploring the potential of creativity and design thinking while cocreating with the actual people involved in the project – the dormitory students, staff, and the local community members. The process and the methodology used were very important, especially the co-design activities: the dorm, in fact, was designed by the PSSD students in the studio for the students and with the students of the dorm. The dormitory, as a part, like most university campuses and schools, as a whole, can be considered an urban hub through which synergistic relations take place between the structure of the dorm and the neighbourhood and vice versa. Six interesting scenarios designed by students that explore the sense o...

Alfa Romeo technical office; Architettura della città; Casabella; Enios; House in Milan; Ina-casa programme; Nostra signora della misericordia; Palazzo bianco/Palazzo rosso; Rational architecture; Triennale di Milano; Velasca tower;Zentrum Paul Klee

Service Design can contribute to Spatial Design not only through data collection from the involve... more Service Design can contribute to Spatial Design not only through data collection from the involved stakeholders and their demands analysis but also through the improvement of methods and tools to engage final users, to trigger interactions among them, to stimulate ways of conceiving and creating new living and working lifestyles and social environments. An especially challenging task emerges from the enhancement of programs and facilities particularly affected by transformations and new configurations of learning and research environments. This paper focuses on the definition of tailor-made methods and tools merging the contribution of Service and Spatial Design for the meta-design development of the new scientific campus of the Università degli Studi di Milano to be built on the former Milano Expo 2015 site.

L’archivio Casali. L’immagine della nuova città. The Casali archive. The image of the new city

Strategic Design Research Journal, 2020

Systems theory and its guidelines - systems thinking - have been promoted as the most relevant pr... more Systems theory and its guidelines - systems thinking - have been promoted as the most relevant practice for raising social awareness about interconnected complex systems. Systemic Design intends to develop methodologies and approaches that help to integrate systems thinking with design towards sustainability at the environmental, social and economic levels. Based on the Hall of the Future requalification project, designed with the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, this essay describes a Systemic Research project with a focus on the use of a Co-Design approach within the process. Moreover, it illustrates an established relationship between two different public institutions, highlighting how to share a fresh approach to designing new services aimed at the world of business, trade and tourism, and the consequent re-functionalization and enhancement of its given spaces.

The Design Journal, 2017

This paper describes a research conducted in the last year at the Design Department of Design, re... more This paper describes a research conducted in the last year at the Design Department of Design, regarding design and sharing services, especially in the hospitality field. The term hospitality is used here with a wide meaning, coming from the idea that "Real hospitality is not just welcoming people in on the first night, but liking that they come back and stay, fitting into the city, making their own contribution and making the place their own" (Leadbeater, 2009). Collection and analysis of more than 61 examples of hospitality sharing services was a useful tool to understand the current international scenario. The collected case studies were presented on 6 positioning maps regarding six specific themes of the study.

What Does the Future Hold for the Pavilions at Expo Milano 2015?

TERRITORIO, 2016

La dimensione temporanea delle architetture destinate ad una grande esposizione universale ha da ... more La dimensione temporanea delle architetture destinate ad una grande esposizione universale ha da sempre posto il problema del destino dei manufatti a conclusione dell’evento. Il saggio, dopo un breve excursus storico che ricostruisce i molti esempi ed i modelli di gestione del fine vita che la storia di queste manifestazioni ci offre, mira a restituire un quadro critico dei diversi approcci adottati per la second life dei padiglioni di Expo 2015, anche in considerazione degli obiettivi di sostenibilita previsti dall’evento milanese. L’analisi consente, da un lato, di evidenziare una specifica eredita dell’esposizione universale sui temi dello sviluppo sostenibile, dall’altro, di mettere in luce alcune questioni chiave di carattere tecnologico, economico e culturale che rimandano a tematiche piu ampie inerenti il rapporto tra l’architettura contemporanea e la variabile del tempo (durata, ciclo di vita, riuso, riciclo)

Permission is granted to reproduce copies of these works for purposes relevant to the above sympo... more Permission is granted to reproduce copies of these works for purposes relevant to the above symposium, provided that the author(s), source and copyright notice are included on each copy. For other uses, including extended quotation, please contact the author(s). Linda DREW * Vice Chair DRS Council and independent researcher This paper begins with a discussion of approaches to co-creation and the application of design thinking (Sanders and Stappers, 2008). In this discussion, examples of co-creation approaches include Open Space Technology (Owen, 1997) a model of collaborative, research-informed facilitation and writing mostly used in higher education settings. The discussion reveals aspects of these approaches which enhance cocreation and peer to peer facilitation as well as high quality researchinformed writing and curriculum development using the cognitive characteristics of design thinking (Oxman, 1999 & 2004). Significant features of the OST model are assessed to understand relevance for educators and practitioners in design as an anti-hierarchical approach to research-informed writing and curriculum development. The paper goes on to analyse two case studies of different stages in the experience of a group of art and design educators brought together to re-imagine a research-informed curriculum after an institutional merger. The group uses co-creation and OST informed approaches such as World Café and Bar Camps to co-create a blueprint for a research-informed curriculum. This analysis draws on evaluation reports. The paper concludes with suggestions for further development in design Higher Education contexts.

Sperimentazioni progettuali per EXPO 2015

The city of Milan will host the EXPO in 2015 with the theme “Feeding the planet. Energy for life”... more The city of Milan will host the EXPO in 2015 with the theme “Feeding the planet. Energy for life”. The period of time separating us from the event is generating the creation of a community which in many ways feels part of the advent of Expo 2015, “looking forward”, for example, with growing interest and curiosity to the event, “participating” in its coming about with its contribution and, finally, “visiting” the exposition and related initiatives in 2015. “Mobile Expo” and the “Cluster International Workshop” are two of the activities which are typical of the collective process in place and the outputs of which are promoters of innovation and socialization.