505 research outputs found
Design of supporting system for life in outer space. A design perspective on space missions near earth and beyond
No full textThis book is a rich source of information on design research and solutions for the support and development of space missions. International experiences and researches are presented in order to cast light on the role of space design in improving living and working conditions in outer space and to highlight the particularities of the necessary design skills, taking into account specific requirements and constraints. The challenge facing designers is how to approach environmentally extreme conditions in such a way that they are transformed from limitations into opportunities. The author has herself developed products that have been tested during on-orbit experiments on the International Space Station. Drawing on this unique experience and other case studies, the author proposes a new design methodology for space and demonstrates how the discipline of design is able to generate innovation thanks to the strong capacity of visioning. Ultimately this will lead to the development of further new equipment for astronauts that will facilitate space travel. While the book is intended primarily for students and researchers, it is also of interest for a broad readership attracted by space, innovation, and future scenarios
Space Architecture Education in Milan
No full textThis paper suggest a method to develop project education activity teaching architecture and industrial design practices.
The thesis is based on the application of a methodology called “project research”, developed by the author inside the Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, to formative context of the fourth year of the Laboratory of Industrial Design “Space Design”. The methodology related to the project research consists of the elaboration of new knowledge through the project experience in which theory and practice overlapped and in which the external environment, the real purchaser, the industrial reality, are the principal interlocutors of the designer.
The application of the project research methods to the formative context is recommended if the objective of the Laboratory of Industrial Design “Space Design” is oriented to a professional formation which put the students in the conditions to operate in a real context with external stimuli to the academic environment.
The focal point of the thesis expressed in this paper is the proposal of a education program in which the theoretical lectures of the academic instructors interweave with external resources, as experiences of professionals from the scientific and industrial world, with the aim to stimulate students curiosity and get them accustomed to the complexity. It could be useful to place the theoretical teaching next to the real practice of the “workshop” through: the research, that is the capability to found information; the analysis, that is the capability to manage and organize them; finally, the elaboration of concept design, which represent the visualization of the first hypothesis in which the project requirements and the designer intuition join together.
The results attended with this method could consent to the students to acquire a double management capability: the information management, from which it could derive the student attitude to the industrial design research, and the project management, from which could arise the attitude to the practice of industrial design.
The paper describes the proposed method through the case study of the fourth year of the Laboratory of Industrial Design “Space Design”, in which the author is scientific coordinator, started from this year at the Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano
Designing for Space
No full textThe aim of this paper is underline why the designer must really become a central figure in space research programs that involve human presence focussing the attention on the importance of theoretical and methodological approach “half way between design and human sciences”. Because of the rapid expansion of manned missions in space exploration and, especially, for the gradual increase in the duration of the time humans are spending onboard the International Space Station, the relative studies into the habitability of confined spaces and in microgravity have also multiplied, to guarantee, now and in the near future when we are thinking of mission to Mars, a more comfortable and functional, and therefore more efficient, way of living and working in space. Designing for space means starting anew, applying a different logic for a different environment, conceiving new instruments for uses and activities that Earth dwellers have
difficulty in envisaging, but which on the whole presuppose a different relationship between our bodies, the objects, and the surrounding space. The objectives that will be explained in this pages try to demonstrate as design research for confined environments and microgravity conditions requires a capacity of “use forecast”, that is to say foreseeing the way in which an object will be used, to be able to imagine, for example, the actions and the movements of the crewmembers in relationship to the “neutral posture” that is assumed in microgravity, and to foresee the physiological, perceptive, ergonomic, psychological and motional requirements that will arise in the astronauts in conditions that are completely new and unknown to the human being. The conclusions of the reflections discussed in the paper, related of the particular space context, delineate the task of the architecture and industrial design to improve the quality of life on board, planning on board environments that can facilitate human movement and, at the same time, foresee new ways of using instruments and new gestures in relationship to the extraordinary conditions of the space environment. The paper will be explained through the case studies developed by the research laboratory for space design “SpaceLab” at the Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano
Couture in Orbit - ADI Design Index 2017
No full textThe European Space Agency (ESA) invited the Design School of the Politecnico di Milano to design the "Couture in Orbit "capsule collection using innovative materials and technologies derived from space research. The collection was presented during a special event with catwalk at the London Science Museum and the European Researchers’ Night at the Italian ESA/ESRIN venue.
The project "Couture in Orbit" was developed by Annalisa Dominoni together with students of the Master level Course "Design for the Fashion System" and continued as a research activity thanks to the support of the ESA Technology Transfer Program (TTP) for the integration of smart materials and technologies. The initiative represents the first opening of ESA to the public intended to communicate through the language of fashion the importance of scientific research in orbit and the effects on everyday life through innovations aimed at improving overall well-being
Couture in Orbit - Premio Eccellenze della Lombardia 2017
No full textThe European Space Agency (ESA) invited the Design School of the Politecnico di Milano to design the "Couture in Orbit "capsule collection using innovative materials and technologies derived from space research. The collection was presented during a special event with catwalk at the London Science Museum and the European Researchers’ Night at the Italian ESA/ESRIN venue.
The project "Couture in Orbit" was developed by Annalisa Dominoni together with students of the Master level Course "Design for the Fashion System" and continued as a research activity thanks to the support of the ESA Technology Transfer Program (TTP) for the integration of smart materials and technologies. The initiative represents the first opening of ESA to the public intended to communicate through the language of fashion the importance of scientific research in orbit and the effects on everyday life through innovations aimed at improving overall well-being
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