Patrizia Bolzan

Research Fellow
Digital Fabrication Guru

Designer, PhD in Design at the Politecnico of Milan with a thesis that investigates the ratio between additive manufacturing and design in its practices. She deals with product system design, graphics and furnishing. Her projects focus on usability, soft-qualities perception and on the realization of study models and homebuilt prototypes. In collaboration with Marcello Pirovano she founded Tecnificio, a maker facility operating in the field of design, that won several awards. From 2011 she is part of Subalterno1, a space at Lambrate that deals with autoproduction. From 2015 she is a consultant and technical specialist for Polifactory.