Valentina Rognoli is an researcher at the Design Department at the Politecnico di Milano.

She has been working in the field of materials for design for almost twenty years gaining expertise on this topic. She has always been interested on the expressive-sensorial dimension of materials and their emotional aspects. Currently, her research and education activities are focused on emerging materials experiences, Materials Driven Design (MDD) method, materials interactions, DIY Materials, tinkering with materials, CMF (colour, material and finishing) design, repairing and imperfection. She is also one of the founders of the Experience and Interaction Research Lab at Politecnico di Milano, where she collaborates also in the Polifactory and in the materials library Materiali & Design.

In 2014, Valentina was involved as research collaborator with Digital DIY, a European Union funded project that focused on the creative community in the digital environment and on the DIY approach. In 2016 she won as the principal investigator on an internal call with the project entitled ICS Materials: Scenarios and Methods for Designing (with) Interactive, Connected and Smart Materials.

At the Politecnico di Milano, Valentina is also involved with the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Product Design course and is responsible for the internationalization process.

The ESAD ID Talks 2018 cycle of conferences and workshops is part of the Master and the Degree of Product Design and Automotive and Transportation Design and Furniture Design program.

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ESAD ID TALKS 2018
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