Medardo Chiapponi programme director

Medardo Chiapponi is full professor of Industrial Design, Director of the Department of Arts and Industrial Design, and Director of the undergraduate degree in Industrial Design at the Università Iuav di Venezia. He has taught industrial design at the Politecnico di Milano and at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany), and environmental design at the Politecnico di Torino. Member of the Organizing Committee and speaker of the Conference “Best-practice Medical Design for 2020. A scientist-practitioner dialogue” at Technion Haifa (Israel) in June 2007.  Among his published works: Cultura sociale del prodotto. Nuove frontiere del disegno industriale, Milan 1999; Health Care Technologies. The contribution of Industrial Design, in Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion, edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz and Raimonda Riccini, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah (New Jersey) and London 2003.

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Thematic design workshops teaching staff

Paolo Ferrari

Interior design of healthcare buildings workshop

Paolo Ferrari has been professor at the Politecnico di Milano III, Faculty of Architecture (Design) since 1996. He was visiting professor at Domus Academy in Milan from 1984 to 1986, and held courses on lighting and industrial design. From 1972 to 1982 he worked regularly with Achille Castiglioni, participating in research, design, and the realisation of a number of shows, mountings and industrial design objects, among which: a standardized telephone for Italtel (1977); the organisation of the Italian Pavilion for Telecom ’75 and Telecom ’79 in Geneva; the Flexform stand at the Salone del Mobile of Milan in 1979 and the design of the Eta, Beta, Meta system (bookcase, table and pushcart) for BBB Bonacina in 1980. Since 1983 he has worked as a consultant for fair productions for IBM Italy, Saba Italy, Face Alcatel, and Milan Tasker, and is responsible for the corporate image of Milan and Tasker. Other clients include the Centre Culturel Georges Pompidou in Paris and Abet Laminati.

Jorge Frascara

Medical information design workshop

Jorge Frascara is emeritus professor of the University of Alberta, Canada, where he was Chair of the Art and Design Department and co-ordinator of the Visual Communication area. His publications include more than 50 papers and 9 books. He was guest of institutions and universities in 26 countries, and professional advisor of design magazines, university programmes, of the CSA (Canadian Standards Association), and of the ISO (International Standard Organisation). He was president of Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) and director of Icograda/Education. He is now working on information design and on the strategic planning of communication for traffic safety.

Antonio Macchi Cassia

Medical product design workshop

Antonio Macchi Cassia has been a member of the board of directors of the Foundation ADI for Italian Design since 2001. Since 1994 he has taught as professor at the Politecnico di Milano and has held courses and lectures at the European Institute of Design in Milan, the ISIA in Rome, and the Technological Institute of Canarias S.A. From 1968 to 1993 he worked as a consultant for Engineer C. Olivetti & C. s.p.a. in the industrial design sector. In 1985 he founded Imaplast s.r.l. dedicated to plastic material moulding. His works are a part of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Design at the Triennale of Milan. He has received four Smau Industrial Design Awards and was nominated eight times for the ADI Gold Compass Award.

Mario Varesco

Product planning and service design workshop

Mario Varesco is co-owner of studio MM Design of Bressanone which works exclusively in the field of industrial design and engineering, operating at an international level in various production sectors. Among his most important creations: electromedical equipment for the Spanish group Instrumentation Laboratory; snowboard shoes and fittings for the American company Burton; handles for the German firm Hoppe; ski boots for the Austrian company Kneissl-Dachstein; gardening tools for the Japanese company Golden Star; super-automatic coffee machines for the Italian firm Faema; sporting Alpine climbing equipment for the German company Salewa; electrical appliances for the Italian company Smeg and automatic coffee machines for Illy.

Michael Burke

Pictograms and user instructions workshop

Michael Burke is professor of Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd (Germany) and since 2005 honorary professor at Hochschule Anhalt (Master of Art in Integrated Design at the Bauhaus, Dessau). He has taught in various international schools of design (Canada, U.S.A., Italy, Germany, Austria). He is co-owner, together with Jürgen Hoffmann, of a graphic design studio in Stuttgart (Germany) and was partner of the studio Octavo in London and member of the editorial team for the magazine of the same name. As a designer and graphic designer he has worked IUAV University of Venice among others, with Otl Aicher for the graphic design project for the Olympics of Munich and for the studio of Sir Norman Foster. He has organised exhibitions on information design among which, “You are here” at the Design Museum of London in 2005. Together with Peter Wildbur he published the book Information Graphics, Thames and Hudson, London 1998.

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Series of Seminars

Laura Badalucco

Protocol of the environmental evaluation of medical instruments and equipment

Professor and researcher at the Iuav University of Venice, the Politecnico of Milan and the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera. She participated in the research project “Green Public Procurement: experimental preparation and application of

instruments for the diffusion of correct and environmentally sustainable purchasing policies on the part of public entities for ANPA, in 2000-2001. Among her publications in the field: “I criteri di preferibilità ambientale dei prodotti”, in Vittorio Biondi (edited by), “Eco-design e prevenzione per l’imballaggio cellulosico”, Ipaservizi Publishers, Milan 2003.

Noemi Bittermann

Human factors and medical design

Since 2003 Noemi Bittermann has been Director of the graduate programme in Industrial Design at the Faculty of Architecture & Town Planning of Technion di Haifa (Israel). Member of the Organizing Committee and speaker of the Conference “Best-practice Medical Design for 2020. A scientist-practitioner dialogue” at Technion Haifa (Israel) in June 2007. His research includes: Medical Technology & Innovation, Smart Technologies, E-health; The Medical Environment: Health Care Services, Operating Room of the Future; Hospitals. Gerotechnology, Innovative Technology for the elderly & disabled, E-care; and Development of physiological methods in design research.. A scientist-practitioner dialogue” at Technion Haifa (Israel) in June 2007. His essays on these themes have been published in various professional magazines and international newspapers.

Aldo Bottoli

Colours in healthcare environments

Aldo Bottoli teaches perception and colour at the Design Faculty of the Milan Polytechnic. The fields in which he developed and develops his professional and research activity are the inhabited spaces, public and private, the design and the communication, where he is co-operating with professional societies, fair organisations, schools, and publishers. In 1984 at Milan Salone del Mobile he promoted and co-ordinated the international congress “Colour in interior design”, one of the first discussion opportunity for a new approach of the professional world towards colour. Together with Giulio Bertagna in the office “B&B Color Design” he realized several colour projects for Ferrovie dello Stato, Fiat Auto, Du Pont Teflon, British Gas, City of Genova, City of Milan etc.

Lorraine Justice                                             

Assessment criteria used by international organisations

Swire Chair Professor of Design and Director of the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Previous academic experiences at the Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. Membership on boards: Icsid Executive board, Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, Atlanta Children’s Museum. Editorship: Studies in Material Thinking, Auckland University of Technology; International Journal Design, e-first and paper publication, Taiwan; Design Studies, ELSEVIER, United Kingdom; The Journal of Designing in China, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Zhejiang University; The Design Journal, United Kingdom; Design Issues, MIT Press; Innovation, Industrial Design Society of America professional journal; Online Design Research, (DRS), UK. Research and professional activities at the university and outside.

Kristian Kloeckl

Smart technologies, home assistance and telemedicine

Kristian Kloeckl is a student at the PhD in Design Sciences at the Università Iuav di Venezia and research assistant in SENSEable City Laboratory at MIT Boston (USA). He has been working as a product designer in Venice since 2003, after a collaborative effort with the studios of Giulio Ceppi and Antonio Citterio in Milan. Kloeckl has conductied research, with a grant from the Università Iuav di Venezia, on the theme of smart technologies in the field of home assistance and telemedicine.

Simona Morini

Methods and decision making in medical design

Simona Morini is researcher and teaches rational decision making and game theory at the Arts and Design Faculty of the Iuav University, Venice. Her research and published work concern the nature and characteristics of rationality and the analysis of means of conceptualizing uncertainty in various research fields. Her work focuses on certain applied aspects of such theories through collaboration in research and educational programmes for the region of Lombardy, for the Superior Magistracy Council, for the Milan Polytechnic, and other public and private entities. She directs the online journal of applied philosophy “Rescogitans” for the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation and contributes to various publishing houses, magazines and the daily newspaper Il Sole 24Ore.

Giovanni Pizza

Anthropology of health

Researcher and professor of Medical Anthropology and History of Anthropology at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy and the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Perugia. Among his publications: Antropologia medica. Saperi, pratiche e politiche del corpo, Carocci, Rome 2005.

Raimonda Riccini

History of medical design

Raimonda Riccini is a design historian, professor of history of science, and Vice-Director of the Industrial Design programme at the Università Iuav di Venezia. Her work centres on the history of industrial design, in particular the history of enterprise, innovation and technological culture. Among her publications in this field: “La sanità: un itinerario per la storia del disegno industriale”, in Medardo Chiapponi (edited by), “Dalla cura delle cose alla cura delle persone”, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 1999;” Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and Fashion”, edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz and Raimonda Riccini, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah (New Jersey) and London 2003.

Ricardo José Santocono

Healthcare projects in Latin America

Professor of physical resource projects for health issues at the Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). He has coordinated diverse projects in Latin America in the field of planning and design of health resources. In particular, he has participated in such projects as “Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana“ of the World Health Organisation, the Programme of the United Nations for Development, and other projects financed by the World Bank and the Inter-American Bank of Development.

Mara Semenzato

Classification of the medical devices; Technical norms regarding medical devices; Life Cycle of  medical equipments

Manager of Clinical Engineering and Telephone Services for the Healthcare Agency ULSS 12 of Venice; electronic engineer with further specialised diploma in clinical engineering. Faculty member of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ferrara (Final Project Module).

Michele Sinico

Assessment methodologies in cognitive ergonomics

Michele Sinico is a researcher and teaches Psychology of Perception at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the Università Iuav di Venezia. He trained at the Centre for Study of Ecological Psychology at the University of Portsmouth (UK), and received his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Padua. His line of research focuses on perception psychology, on history and metamethodology of psychology. His applied work involves the field of perceptive communication, sensorial ergonomics and experimental inspection in design.

Girolamo Strano

Principles of healthcare buildings construction

Director of the Department of Technical Resource, Goods and Service Management of the Healthcare Agency ULSS 12 of Venice concerning clinical engineering and hospital building. He has also been the Director of the Medical Equipment Maintenance Service of the same Healthcare Agency.

Chiara Tartarini

History of medical iconography

Chiara Tartarici teaches and conducts research at the University of Bologna, in the field of restoration and development of scientific-medical films. On this topic she published the book Anatomie fantastiche. Indagine sui rapporti tra il cinema, le arti visive e l’iconografia medica, Clueb, Bologna 2003.

Franco Toniolo

Organization of the regional healthcare system

Director of the interuniversity regional centre for education of the Veneto Region.