Anna Meroni Design for the Milan area
Feeding Milan. Energy for Change: Final a multidisciplinary project.
how design can help plan scenarios and regional systems, with particular attention to the characteristics of sustainability? How to interact with architects, planners, agronomists, sociologists, landscape architects, engineers to design the features of a regional context? The project will present a set of tools and approaches being tested to develop a modus operandi of Strategic Design and Services in the context of territorial development projects. Focusing in particular on issues relating to the potential for social and collaborative practices, present the status of the ongoing work of "Feeding Milan. Energy for change ", whose objective is the design and implementation of a scenario of gradual metroagricoltura sustainable for the city of Milan and the vast territory of disrupting South Agricultural Park, which skirts the boundaries.
biography
Anna Meroni, architect and designer, has a PhD in Industrial Design. He works as a researcher in the Unit of Research Design and Innovation for Sustainability Department INDIGO (Industrial Design, Arts, Communication and Fashion) of Politecnico di Milano, where he is also Professor of Design Services and Strategic Design.
Professor in other schools and universities (China, Shanghai, Tongji University, Italy, Pollenzo University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy MBA MIP, Politecnico di Milano, Chile, Universidad de Valparaiso, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Escola de UNISINOS design; Colombia, Barranquilla, Universidad del Norte) in 2010 was a visiting scholar at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, and Imagination at Lancaster, Lancaster University, Lancaster.
Since 2004 the scientific committee, and then the faculty co-director of the International Master in Strategic Design, organized by the Consortium for Polidesign Politecnico di Milano.
E 'also in the College of Design Master in the same institution.
It deals with design services and system innovation for sustainability: is involved in numerous activities of national and international research, organizing conferences and exhibitions, writing for newspapers and scientific research.
The main area of \u200b\u200bresearch concerns the social innovation in different fields of activities: In particular, significant experience in the food system and issues related to it. Other research topics concern the service of de-intermediation producer / user and those in support of the residence.