Design NOW

Design Now is a program of open and collective project activities promoted by the School of Design and by the Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano and the Consorzio POLI.design, with the support of Polifactory, the collaboration of the Triennale di Milan and the patronage of the Cumulus International Association. This program is aligned to the international exhibition of the XXI Triennale and focuses on a concrete experimentation centered on one of the main themes of the exhibition: how the paradigm of distributed production changes the classic articulation of roles and approaches that the design has practiced and taught in its recent history.  The goal of the initiative is to involve the main schools of Italian design and international cuisine in a path of exploration of this key-theme for the evolution of the society and the discipline. The program of activities, entirely developed at the School of Design and inside Polifactory, includes three project activities:

A JAM – “When Production goes into the city”
It is centerd on the relationship between service design and new production and distribution models. It took place on 20th and 21st May in 6 different cities: Milan, Pamplona, Madeira, Pune, Medellin, Leeds. From this Jam were selected the participants to the Summer School.

A SUMMER SCHOOL – the “Fab City: Designing Products and Services for Urban Resilience through Manufacturing”
40 participants – 30 selected through an international call and the remaining 10 through the Jam – will work on the theme of urban resilience reached through the distributed manifacture inside the Fab Cities. This phase was held from 8th to 16th July at the School of Design – Politecnico di Milano and Polifactory.

An EXHIBITION where all the projects developed within Design Now will be staged in a show included in the program of the XXI Triennale, during September 2016, with a closing event dedicated to the theme of urban resilience and manufacturing.