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Xin WEN, Lecturer and Architect in Fine Art Academy of Beijing Film Academy. 2009 Graduated from Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University and get the degree of Master of Arts in Department of Environmental Art Design. The same year worked in department of environmental art design academy China architecture design and research group as an architect for 5 years. Released 10 papers about environmental art and design, architecture design and interior design realm and award several prize in national and company design competition. Now the major research realm is cultural and entertainment space design.
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Has been founder-director of the Product-Life Institute (Switzerland), the oldest established consultancy in Europe devoted to developing sustainable strategies and policies, since 1983. From 1986 to 2014, he was also director of risk management research of the Geneva Association. In 1971, he graduated from ETH Zurich with an MA in architecture; has been Visiting Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, since 2005; a full member of the Club of Rome since 2013. He was awarded degrees of Doctor honoris causa by the University of Surrey (2013) and l’Université de Montréal (2016). In 1982, with ‘The Product-Life Factor’, he won a Mitchell Prize in Houston, TX; In 1978, together with Peter Perutz, he won a first prize in the competition of the German Future's Society, Berlin, with a paper on unemployment, occupation and profession.His ‘corner’ books are ‘Jobs for Tomorrow, the Potential for substituting manpower for energy’ (1981) and ‘The Performance Economy’ (2010).
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Promoting the understanding of the structure of an economy in loops and its drivers and obstacles (circular industrial economy); spreading the knowledge about the competitiveness of a performance economy selling goods and molecules as a service; and identifying the levers to speed up the shift from a linear industrial economy managing flows to an economy managing stocks; through workshops, lectures and policy groups; member of the Coordination Group of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform of EESC and the European Commission.
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Adriano Magliocco (Venezia, 1966), architect, PhD (1998) in technology of Architecture and Environment at Milan Polytechnic, Italy. Full Professor in Technology of Architecture at the Department Architecture and Design where he is Deputy Head, University of Genoa, Italy. He has been Coordinator of Master program in Architecture from November 2013 to November 2016 and Coordinator of PhD Program in Architecture years 2012-2015. Reference research field is environmental sustainability at different scales; results have been reported in several publications, conferences, seminars and training courses. Main topics: near zero energy buildings, strategic environmental assessment, building environmental assessment, eco-design, strategic environmental assessment in urban areas.
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Artistic craftsmanship vs degradation risk of historical areas
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Andreas Metzner-Szigeth is Full Professor (since March 2016) in Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, Italy. He was Full Professor of Sustainability Science at Bochum University of Applied Sciences (May 2012-March 2016) in Bochum, Germany, and Holder of the Visiting Chair for Studies in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Donostia–San Sebastian, Spain (October 2004-September 2007). Moreover, he has collected additional international experiences in a series of positions as Visiting Professor and Resident Research Fellow. His broad record of working experience comprises several positions in different academic institutions, European research networks and international projects focusing on the interplay of media and culture, technology assessment and risk communication. He acquired additional proficiency in management and governance related consulting and evaluation procedures centering on various fields of Sustainable Development as an entrepreneur and executive manager (October 2008-March 2016, Executive Manager and Consultant, Episteme Consulting (EC), Muenster, Germany; April 2000-April 2005, Entrepreneur and Consultant, Institute for Management and Sustainability Issues (IMSI), Muenster, Germany). Andreas started his academic career as Assistant Professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology, in Cottbus, Germany (June 1994-April 1999).
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Strategies for Eco-Social Transformation: Comparing Efficiency, Sufficiency and Consistency
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Anna Realini holds a M.Sc. in Energy Engineering at Politecnico di Milano (2012). After working for four years in an Energy Company, she joined RSE as a researcher in Energy Efficiency group. Her current research interests focus on Energy Efficiency, especially in industrial and residential sectors. She is involved on Italian and EU-funded projects on these topics, among which ASSIST 2gether project, whose aim is to tackle energy poverty by increasing consumption awareness and triggering behaviour change in vulnerable consumers.
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Education strategies and behavioral actions to mitigate Energy Poverty
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Arianna Bionda is a PhD candidate of the XXXII Cycle at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design. Architect, sailor and yacht designer, since 2014 she is involved in teaching and research activities with the Master program in Yacht Design at Politecnico di Milano and SMaRT Lab (Sustainable Marine Research and Technology laboratory), Lecco Innovation Hub interdepartmental laboratory. Her doctoral research is focus on innovative technologies and materials role in a yacht design project and their current dynamics and practices of interaction. She is also involved in national and international research activity mainly focused on Yacht Desgin for sustainability: design for sustainable material and technology, design for circoular economy, design for disassembly and for recycling, design for sustainable social innovation and sustainable business model, and design4all.
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This is Azadeh Razzagh Shoar, master student of OCAD University (Toronto) in Design for Health program and a BA holder in Industrial Design from The Art University (Tehran). I am a minimalist, product and life style designer and also a design researcher. The area of my studies are mostly on the consumerist society and in general consumption. Moreover my future studies will be focused on sustainability and its relation with design.
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Toward Sustainable Cities Through Futuristic Design Model: A Concumeristic Society Perspective
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Berill is passionate about food, the environment and healthy living, and her mission is to help create a sustainable and healthy food system which operates safely and delightfully in the natural world without compromising the health and well-being of humans, other species, and our planet. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience at the University College London. Her research focuses on developing a novel Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based tool for catering to support the design of healthy and sustainable food systems. The tool will enable the catering sector to make informed decisions about menu design and be aware of how different types of meals impact both the environment and our health
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Designing sustainable and healthy food systems through catering: the role of designers
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Carolina Giraldo Nohra, PhD candidate in Management Production and Design at the Politecnico di Torino (Department of Architecture and Design)(2017-2020). Her research mainly focuses on Systemic Design applied to generate Circular Economy and Urban Transitions. She is a member of the Systemic Design Research group where she is lead researcher of a range of european funded projects among the following ones : RETRACE Interreg Europe Project (2016-2020) (Politecnico di Torino - Lead Partner) on the development of local and regional policies moving towards a circular economy and ProGIreg H2020 (2018-2023) (Politecnico di Torino - Partner) Nature based solutions for post Industrial Cities (Dortmund, Turin, Zagreb), on the development of Living Labs with Green Infrastructure on post-industrial areas.
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Systemic Design delivering policy for flourishing Circular Regions
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Cenk Basbolat is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher with core focus on user experience, system design, visualisation and strategy. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Bilkent University in Turkey having completed one year of his studies in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in USA. He received his Master of Science degree in Product Service System Design at Politecnico di Milano with an half year study abroad experience at RMIT university at Melbourne.
Cenk previously worked as Designer and Researcher at FourByNorth Studio, an American Design Studio, based in Istanbul and currently working as a Designer Researcher and Project Manager at DIS Lab - Design and system Innovation for Sustainability in the Design Department of Politecnico di Milano where he is engaged in LeNSin (the International Learning Network of networks on Sustainability) Project which is an EU-supported (ERASMUS+) project involving 36 universities from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Central America, aiming at the promotion of a new generation of designers (and design educators) capable to effectively contribute to the transition towards a sustainable society for all.
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Chiara Battistoni is an Italian Eco and Systemic Designer born in 1988 in Torino (Italy). Currently, she is pursuing a PhD in Management, Production and Design in Politecnico di Torino (Italy) since November 2016, working with the Systemic Design Research Group in the Department of Architecture and Design lead by Silvia Barbero (before Luigi Bistagnino).
Thanks to the bachelor degree in Industrial Design and the master in Ecodesign (now “Systemic Design, Aurelio Peccei”), she is actively interested in sustainable environmental design and her main line of research centres on the territorial potentialities reached thanks to the Systemic Design Approach. She had the possibilities to start to explore this research field in the master thesis and in some collaborative projects like research fellow with international partners like Zeri foundation.
Currently her PhD centers on the relationship between Systemic design, sustainability and entrepreneurship, finding the best way to implement systemic and circular projects to reach zero waste and a sustainable local development. Since April 2016, she is also collaborating in the European project Interreg Europe RETRACE and since 2015 she is the teacher assistant of the course ‘Systemic Design’ in Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
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Daniela Selloni is a Service Designer, Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the School of Design of Politecnico di Milano, where she teaches the Master’s Degree in Product Service Systems Design.
She is member of POLIMI DESIS Lab within the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano, where she works in international and Italian research programmes. Her research interests cover service design and social innovation, focusing on citizen activism, methods and tools for co-design, public services, design for democracy, sharing economy. She is the author of “CoDesign For Public-Interest Services” and “Massive Codesign”.
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Professor Dilys Williams FRSA is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion. Dilys’ work explores fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural elements to contribute to sustainability in and through its artistic, business and educational practices.
Trained at Manchester Metropolitan University and holding a UAL professorship in Fashion Design for Sustainability, Dilys publishes widely on fashion and sustainability in peer reviewed academic journals and published books. Dilys’ work draws on extensive experience in lead womenswear designer roles for international collections, including Katharine Hamnett, Liberty and Whistles. This industry experience is complimented by a longstanding internationally recognised teaching and research portfolio focused on the development of sustainability centred design practices, based on principles of holism, participation and transformation design.
Current change-making engagement in wider societal and governmental arenas includes acting as a key witness in the UK Environmental Audit Commission enquiry into fashion and sustainability, her contribution cited in its recent report, Fixing Fashion. She is a member of theUNFCCC Global Climate Action in Fashionand sits on advisory committees for Positive Luxury and the Global Fashion Agenda. Her place on the Evening Standard’s London’s Progress 1000 list in 2015, 2016 and 2017 evidences the public and academic influence of her work alongside regular appearances on broadcast television, radio and magazines including recent appearances on BBC World, Sky News, Radio 4, WWD, the Gentlewoman and Elle magazine.
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Fashion Design for Sustainability: a framework for participatory practice
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