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Completed research projects | Research Portfolio by the
Faculty of Design and Art

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Research portfolio:
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Projects:
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Conferences:
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Exhibitions:
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Awards:
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Current Research Projects | Visual communication

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Author:
Wilco Lensink (NL) | Researcher (FUB)
Working group:
Christian Upmeier (D), Paolo Volonté (I), Silvia Dal Negro (I)
Thematic area:
Visual communication
Research project:
1+1=3
Multilingualism in visual communication

Criteria, based on various methods used in projects to respond to multilingual problems in visual communication

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Author:
Michela Carlini (I) | Researcher (FUB)
Thematic area:
Visual communication
Research project:
Branding the Chinese Dragon

Providing answers in identity design to the extension of a western brand
over the Chinese borders and to the creation of a new specific brand
addressed to the Chinese

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Current Research Projects | Interior & Exhibit Design

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Author:
Roberto Gigliotti (I) | Researcher (FUB)
Thematic area:
Interior & Exhibit Design | Contemporary Urban Scenarios
Research project:
Design, Architecture and Urban Development
An interdisciplinary study of public space

This research project focuses mainly on the development of changes in the public space of today's city, understood as meeting place of social interaction and communication

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Author:
Armin Blasbichler (I) | Researcher (FUB)
Thematic area:
Interior & Exhibit Design
Research project:
Concrete Translucence
Tendencies and values in the production of spatial design

Tendencies in spatial design through investigations in matter

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Current Research Projects | Product Design

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Author:
Andrea De Benedetto (I) | Researcher (FUB)
Thematic area:
Product design | New materials
Research project:
City bike
Research and application of new materials & solutions

Technology is the fulcrum of the research: alternative materials,
production techniques, new product functions and ergonomics
will be explored

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Current Research Projects | Design theory

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Author:
Hans Höger (D) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:
Sergio Calatroni (I), Miyuki Yajima (JP), Hidemi Amae (JP), Adelia Borges (BRAS)
Thematic area:
Design theory
Research project:
A-temporary: O & A | Observations & Admissions
Anonymous Design in an inter-cultural context

Which origins and forms of expression characterise the kind of design that is not developed by professional designers, but by those people who act out of their own particular life situation?

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Author:
Hans Höger (D) | Associate professor (FUB)
Thematic area:
Design theory
Research project:
Cultural engineering
Extending the awareness of interdisciplinarity within design, architecture
and communication

Investigation of movies, literature, the arts and everyday culture in their relevance as inspiration and information sources for design projects

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Authors:
Antonino Benincasa (D/I) | Associate professor (FUB)
Hans Höger (D) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:

Thematic area:
Design theory
Research project:
Metadesign
Products and services under the signs of emotional identity
and sustainable aesthetics

Analysis of design working methods that, from the point of view of design strategy, put direct project working in the context of long-term action and communication strategies

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Author:
Hans Höger (D) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:
Antonino Benincasa (D/I)
Thematic area:
Design theory
Research project:
Strategy Setting to Face the Future
International conference on Design Research

Which kind of topics will become relevant, in the next years, for the design profession? And which are the most appropriated working methods, research approaches and professional attitudes in order to deal successfully with the challenges those future design topics are implying?

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Current Research Projects | Design sociology

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Author:
Paolo Volonté (I) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:
Alvise Mattozzi, Carla Lunghi, Ambrogia Cereda
Thematic area:
Sociology
Research project:
Innovation of material culture in advanced industrial societies

Inquiry on the role designers play in the processes of cultural change that are peculiar of contemporary society – a society where cultural production takes place mainly through communication processes.

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Author:
Paolo Volonté (I) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:
Giancarlo Rovati, Lucia Ruggerone, Marco Pedroni
Thematic area:
Sociology
Research project:
“Creativity” within the fashion system and the role of the fashion designer

Designing new possibilities in the clothing area viewed as a process of innovation of the communication tools available for social subjects.

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Author:
Paolo Volonté (I) | Associate professor (FUB)
Thematic area:
Sociology
Research project:
Credibility and creativity in scientific communication

Writing and publishing a book on the social conditions that underpin the production of scientific knowledge: Where does cognitive creativity of scientists come from?

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Author:
Paolo Volonté (I) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:
Elisa Bellotti, Lorenzo Beltrame
Thematic area:
Sociology
Research project:
A comparison between fields of knowledge production

A research on the social dynamics that underpin the processes of knowledge production in contemporary societies: a study in the social fields in Physics and Philosophy in Italy.

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Author:
Paolo Volonté (I) | Associate professor (FUB)
Working group:
Regina Rochow (D), Andrea Cerroni, Luca Guazzetti, Federico Neresini,
Elisa Bellotti,
Thematic area:
Sociology
Research project:
A multidimensional approach for technology transfer

How does technology transfer occur? How far is it affected by the culture of those who are involved in it? A sociological research on social variables influencing technology transfer performed through collaborative projects between public and private sector activities.

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