Research for innovation represents today the industry’s indispensable tool to hinder the internat... more Research for innovation represents today the industry’s indispensable tool to hinder the international concurrence through out new design solutions aimed to optimize the know-how and the skills of each single firm. This paper intends to demonstrate that some strategies which belong to the design discipline can be applied to the industrial system to produce innovation in terms of new processes, products and materials, crossing different expertises and areas of application to generate spin-off. Currently, more and more research and design teams are composed by people with different nationalities, who often have different cultural backgrounds from each other. The professional collaborations, acquisitions, joint ventures are proliferating mainly because the technological contents and the environmental requirements have become so complex that no company can have in itself the skills and resources to innovate. Innovation today is no longer only a enterprise innovation but an innovative result born from a network of relationships and cooperation that comes from the outside and even through the organisation of multidisciplinary working groups, capable of contributing with other points of view, to the growth of a new manufacturing reality. Also, strategic design methodologies can be used to improve the efficacy of the education system reproducing with students the same dynamics and structures that characterized the professional and industrial fields. This approach has the privilege to bring close the students to the real needs and rhythms of working with the everyday reality of professional firms, companies and research centres that very often use this innovative formula involving different kind of people to define in a short time new project scenarios. It can also offer, through the designer’s proposals involved in the activities, a quick and diversified response to a market in continuous transition
Padoux André. R. B. Williams. A New Face of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Religion. In: Revue de l&#... more Padoux André. R. B. Williams. A New Face of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Religion. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 202, n°2, 1985. pp. 204-205
<p><span>   &am... more <p><span>   </span><strong>EuroMoonMars</strong> is an ILEWG initiative including several activities in the space field to facilitate Moon and Mars exploration [1-6]. EMMPOL missions are organized by EMM and AATC, aboard a confined simulator in Poland. The EMMPOL8 (9-16th September 2021) focussed on psychological wellbeing in confinement. During the simulation, biological experiments were also conducted by the crew to analyse the impact of microgravity and different light conditions on the growth of plants and to assess the lunar dust simulant toxicity to various organisms. <br><span>   </span>Here, we present three experiments with a focus on design which were performed by Serena Crotti, Vice-Commander of the mission, in the context of her MSc Thesis research in Integrated Product Design at Politecnico di Milano, under the academic supervision of Professors A. Dominoni, B. Quaquaro and B. Foing. Design for Space<strong> </strong>is an emerging discipline that applies design principles to the aerospace sector; increasing wellbeing and comfort are the main tasks of designers in this area. As missions get longer, psychophysical wellbeing becomes fundamental [7-9]. The following experiments stem from this context.<br><span>   </span><strong>The <em>Emotion Wall</em>.</strong> An emotional monitoring system was tested during the EMMPOL8. It collects psychological data from individuals via a dedicated software; afterwards, it processes them into a visual representation of the crew’s emotional state. This experiment was carried out in collaboration with Brent Reymen and Abdelali Ez Zyn. Testing the system and evaluating its impact on crew dynamics were the main objectives. Real-time psychological data were collected to investigate individuals’ reactions to environmental stressors. This helped keep track of criticalities that can be turned into design opportunities to improve wellbeing.<br><span>  </span><strong><em>Multi-sensory Scenarios</em> and the <em>Scents Experiment</em>.</strong> <em>Multi-sensory Scenarios</em> exploited light, sounds and scents to simulate different environmental settings aboard. Projections recreated shadows cast by hypothetical windows and were accompanied by natural sounds and scents. In the <em>Scents Experiment</em>, astronauts were exposed to olfactory stimulations related to food evoking daily life. These were provided by the company AromaDesign. Stimulating the crew’s senses to provide relief from claustrophobia and monotony was the main aim. Interviews and surveys monitored the crew’s reactions.</p><p><strong>References.</strong> [1] Foing B. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2502 [2] Musilova M. et al (2020) LPSC51, 2893 [3] Perrier I.R. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2562 [4] Foing, B. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2502 [5] Heemskerk, M. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2762 [6] Pouwels, C. et al (2021) EPSC15, 835 [7] Dominoni, A. (2021), “Design of Supporting Systems for Life in Outer Space. A Design Perspective on Space Missions Near Earth and Beyond”, Research for Development, Springer. [8] Dominoni, A., Quaquaro, B., Pappalardo, R. (2018) Space Design Learning. An Innovative Approach of Space Education Through Design, in: Proceedings of IAC 69th, Bremen, 2018. [9] Dominoni, A. (2015), “For Designers with Their Head Beyond the Clouds”, Maggioli, Milan.</p><p> </p><p>                                           <img src="https://contentmanager.copernicus.org/fileStorageProxy.php?f=gepj.46b73736bdd165500291461/sdaolpUECMynit/22UGE&app=m&a=0&c=693d8d0af56bec1f67cca3c6a2714c86&ct=x&pn=gepj.elif&d=1" alt="" width="724" height="426"></p><p> </p>
Research for innovation represents today the industry’s indispensable tool to hinder the internat... more Research for innovation represents today the industry’s indispensable tool to hinder the international concurrence through out new design solutions aimed to optimize the know-how and the skills of each single firm. This paper intends to demonstrate that some strategies which belong to the design discipline can be applied to the industrial system to produce innovation in terms of new processes, products and materials, crossing different expertises and areas of application to generate spin-off. Currently, more and more research and design teams are composed by people with different nationalities, who often have different cultural backgrounds from each other. The professional collaborations, acquisitions, joint ventures are proliferating mainly because the technological contents and the environmental requirements have become so complex that no company can have in itself the skills and resources to innovate. Innovation today is no longer only a enterprise innovation but an innovative result born from a network of relationships and cooperation that comes from the outside and even through the organisation of multidisciplinary working groups, capable of contributing with other points of view, to the growth of a new manufacturing reality. Also, strategic design methodologies can be used to improve the efficacy of the education system reproducing with students the same dynamics and structures that characterized the professional and industrial fields. This approach has the privilege to bring close the students to the real needs and rhythms of working with the everyday reality of professional firms, companies and research centres that very often use this innovative formula involving different kind of people to define in a short time new project scenarios. It can also offer, through the designer’s proposals involved in the activities, a quick and diversified response to a market in continuous transition
Padoux André. R. B. Williams. A New Face of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Religion. In: Revue de l&#... more Padoux André. R. B. Williams. A New Face of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Religion. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 202, n°2, 1985. pp. 204-205
<p><span>   &am... more <p><span>   </span><strong>EuroMoonMars</strong> is an ILEWG initiative including several activities in the space field to facilitate Moon and Mars exploration [1-6]. EMMPOL missions are organized by EMM and AATC, aboard a confined simulator in Poland. The EMMPOL8 (9-16th September 2021) focussed on psychological wellbeing in confinement. During the simulation, biological experiments were also conducted by the crew to analyse the impact of microgravity and different light conditions on the growth of plants and to assess the lunar dust simulant toxicity to various organisms. <br><span>   </span>Here, we present three experiments with a focus on design which were performed by Serena Crotti, Vice-Commander of the mission, in the context of her MSc Thesis research in Integrated Product Design at Politecnico di Milano, under the academic supervision of Professors A. Dominoni, B. Quaquaro and B. Foing. Design for Space<strong> </strong>is an emerging discipline that applies design principles to the aerospace sector; increasing wellbeing and comfort are the main tasks of designers in this area. As missions get longer, psychophysical wellbeing becomes fundamental [7-9]. The following experiments stem from this context.<br><span>   </span><strong>The <em>Emotion Wall</em>.</strong> An emotional monitoring system was tested during the EMMPOL8. It collects psychological data from individuals via a dedicated software; afterwards, it processes them into a visual representation of the crew’s emotional state. This experiment was carried out in collaboration with Brent Reymen and Abdelali Ez Zyn. Testing the system and evaluating its impact on crew dynamics were the main objectives. Real-time psychological data were collected to investigate individuals’ reactions to environmental stressors. This helped keep track of criticalities that can be turned into design opportunities to improve wellbeing.<br><span>  </span><strong><em>Multi-sensory Scenarios</em> and the <em>Scents Experiment</em>.</strong> <em>Multi-sensory Scenarios</em> exploited light, sounds and scents to simulate different environmental settings aboard. Projections recreated shadows cast by hypothetical windows and were accompanied by natural sounds and scents. In the <em>Scents Experiment</em>, astronauts were exposed to olfactory stimulations related to food evoking daily life. These were provided by the company AromaDesign. Stimulating the crew’s senses to provide relief from claustrophobia and monotony was the main aim. Interviews and surveys monitored the crew’s reactions.</p><p><strong>References.</strong> [1] Foing B. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2502 [2] Musilova M. et al (2020) LPSC51, 2893 [3] Perrier I.R. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2562 [4] Foing, B. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2502 [5] Heemskerk, M. et al (2021) LPSC52, 2762 [6] Pouwels, C. et al (2021) EPSC15, 835 [7] Dominoni, A. (2021), “Design of Supporting Systems for Life in Outer Space. A Design Perspective on Space Missions Near Earth and Beyond”, Research for Development, Springer. [8] Dominoni, A., Quaquaro, B., Pappalardo, R. (2018) Space Design Learning. An Innovative Approach of Space Education Through Design, in: Proceedings of IAC 69th, Bremen, 2018. [9] Dominoni, A. (2015), “For Designers with Their Head Beyond the Clouds”, Maggioli, Milan.</p><p> </p><p>                                           <img src="https://contentmanager.copernicus.org/fileStorageProxy.php?f=gepj.46b73736bdd165500291461/sdaolpUECMynit/22UGE&app=m&a=0&c=693d8d0af56bec1f67cca3c6a2714c86&ct=x&pn=gepj.elif&d=1" alt="" width="724" height="426"></p><p> </p>
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