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Design for Emergency
Design for Emergency

An open design platform aimed at facing the COVID-19 emergency through design.

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Tech Footprint Tool
Tech Footprint Tool

A canvas-based tool that helps designers and developers reflect on the impact of technology on different human dimensions.

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MY DIGITAL ARMOUR
MY DIGITAL ARMOUR

An ongoing personal and artistic exploration of how digital technology empowers and weakens my human nature, bit by bit. A journey collected through a diary and displayed on my body.

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Augmented Health and Safety. Future Vision | Research
Augmented Health and Safety. Future Vision | Research

Generating a vision of how emerging and future technologies will transform health and safety practices in the next 3-5 years. In the research phase, we selected six relevant technologies and six compelling health and safety issues to address in the project.

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Augmented Health and Safety. Future Vision | Prototypes
Augmented Health and Safety. Future Vision | Prototypes

Designing and building tangible prototypes to showcase the future solutions that compose our vision for health and safety.

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DeSForM19 Conference | Beyond Intelligence
DeSForM19 Conference | Beyond Intelligence

11th Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement at MIT (Oct 9-11, 2019). The conference explored the implications of recent and emerging technological transformations in the practice of design, with a particular focus on the aesthetics, human experience, and ethics of these new systems. (Conference chair).

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AUGMENTED HEALTH AND SAFETY. FUTURE VISION | STORYTELLING
AUGMENTED HEALTH AND SAFETY. FUTURE VISION | STORYTELLING

Use case videos and virtual reality experiences showcasing the results of the Augmented health and safety. Future vision project.

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Connected lighting for the Caring city | Research
Connected lighting for the Caring city | Research

How will a city convey the idea of “caring” in 2035? The project explored how future connected and intelligent lighting infrastructures can be used to create caring experiences for citizens.

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Connected Lighting for the Caring city
Connected Lighting for the Caring city

What if the city of the future could take care of its inhabitants through lighting? We designed an AI agent connected to an ecosystem of private and public lighting solutions and generated use cases for different city inhabitants.

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DEEP VISION SHIELD
DEEP VISION SHIELD

Designing and developing a working prototype of a smart safety helmet ideated within the Augmented Health and Safety vision.

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The Augmented Tailor
The Augmented Tailor

Designing interactive solutions to augment the tailor’s artisanal activities through non-intrusive, invisible technology.

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ADAPTIVE SPORTSWEAR
ADAPTIVE SPORTSWEAR

Designing and prototyping adaptive sportswear using smart materials.

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Ho.Me
Ho.Me

Designing and prototyping a control system and user mobile interface for smart home appliances and devices, based on the IFTTT technology.

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The Augmented Tailor | Research
The Augmented Tailor | Research

Secondary research on technology trends, collected in a book report.

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Pegasus
Pegasus

Autonomous hybrid robot for the inspection of confined spaces.

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DESIGN TOOLS FOR DIS
DESIGN TOOLS FOR DIS

Developing design thinking tools to help designer-entrepreneurs face the challenges related to new design-intensive startups (DIS) development.

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ROBOTIC INSPECTION | ROADMAP
ROBOTIC INSPECTION | ROADMAP

Generating a roadmap that represents the most suitable technologies to be implemented in the design of an advanced inspection robot (MIT Design Lab - project under NDA).

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FLEXIB.EL | PEACE TIME
FLEXIB.EL | PEACE TIME

Designing interactive products for electricity saving in the smart grid scenario.

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FLEXIB.EL | ENERGY WHEELS
FLEXIB.EL | ENERGY WHEELS

Designing interactive products for electricity saving in the smart grid scenario.

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FLEXIB.EL | THE SOUND OF ENERGY
FLEXIB.EL | THE SOUND OF ENERGY

Designing interactive products for electricity saving in the smart grid scenario.

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ROBOTIC INSPECTION | RESEARCH REPORT
ROBOTIC INSPECTION | RESEARCH REPORT

Emerging technologies for advanced inspection robots.

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