How can design manage the interplay between the artificial and natural worlds and the interaction we have with them?
For example, the collaboration or competition with AI and technology, our relationship with digital life and artificial environments, or with natural, biologic, wild systems?
TEAM
Margherita De Alessandri
Laura Falanga Peri
Roberta Florian
Veronica Leoni
Letizia Percuoco
Sara Pugliano
CONTEXT
MSc Communication Design
Final Synthesis Design Studio - Sect. 3
2024/2025
PROFESSORS
Michele Mauri
Gabriele Colombo
Ángeles Briones
Salvatore Zingale
Politecnico di Milano, School of Design, Milan, Italy
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