MASTER BOARD
Stefano Maffei
Director Specializing Master in Design For Food
Architect and PhD in Design. Full Professor of Design at the School of Design at Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches Service Design and Innovation Theory. He is Director of the Specializing Master in Service Design at POLI.design, Consortium Company of Politecnico di Milano specialized in post-graduate training. He is also Director of Polifactory, the interdepartmental fab lab and makerspace of Politecnico di Milano. His research interests focus on service design innovation, new production-distribution models and advanced and distributed microproduction systems. He coordinates the Politecnico research teams working within the European funded projects REFLOW, DDMP and T-FACTOR. He was awarded with the XXII° Compasso D'Oro in Design Research for the Design Research Maps project.
Francesco Bombardi
Co-director Specializing Master in Design For Food
Architect (Politecnico di Milano) he has studied at ETSAB Barcelona and Domus Academy Milano and teaches Industrial Design at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Engineering Faculty). He is the founder of Fab Lab Reggio Emilia (2012) powered by REI, the ideator and director of “Officucina” for the Food Innovation Program (2015), architect and designer of the Design Thinking Area for Barilla (2015) reported in ADI INDEX 2016, and the curator of the “Kitchen Tools” area for the New Craft exhibit in the XXI Triennale di Milano (2016). With his project LABolla, food lab for kids designed for Fondazione Reggio Children and Enel Cuore Onlus, he has been awarded by FRAME as “best learning space of the year 2018” and shortlisted for German Design Award 2019. After the experience “Food Shuttle” designed for Cirfood and the restaurant-bar “Un posto a Base” designed for Base Ex Ansaldo (Milan), he was invited to present the new lab for STEAM “iVulcani” at EXPO Dubai 2020 with Coopselios/Learning by Languages. He is actually in the research for applications of digital fabrication models into learning environments and Food Design solutions for Space Economy.
Barbara Parini
Didactic Coordinator Specializing Master in Design For Food
Architect and Designer, he has been collaborating for more than 20 years with the Politecnico di Milano, dealing with teaching and research. As a professional consultant, she has developed product and service design projects for companies, communication agencies, and publishing houses. At the Università di Parma he taught several years Industrial Design, aimed at acquiring specific tools and techniques to deal with the design development of products and services for the food sector. With Stefano Maffei she is co-author of FOODMOOD, a book published by Electa. She is currently the Didactic Coordinator of the Master in Design for Food.
Giovanna Gigante
Didactic Assistant Specializing Master in Design For Food
Graphic Designer and Gastronome. She graduated in Linguistic and Multimedia Communication at the University of Florence and specialized in Graphic Design at the Accademia di Comunicazione in Milan. After more than 10 years in the Design field, she decided to focus on Food, completing a Master in Culinary Arts at the Slow Food University of Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo. Currently didactic assistant for the Master in Design for Food and gastronomic consultant for farms, producers and restaurants.
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