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Eleonora Lupo

Politecnico di Milano, Design, Faculty Member

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PhD, Associate professor at the School of Design, Politecnico di Milano.
The main research topics concern the cultures of product and process design; the subjects of humanities driven innovation; the innovative role of design as a strategic and community centred approach to the exploitation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
In particular, considering the Cultural Heritage and Craft as an open-ended knowledge system for innovation, she is working on the concepts of activation and actualization of Cultural Heritage as innovative humanities and culture driven processes, and on the topic of cultural intensive performative artefacts and systems, bridging tradition with smart technologies and materials.
She’s part of the research Section “Design and Cultures” of the Design departments, Milano Politecnico and teaches at the Design School of Milano Politecnico (www.design.polimi.it). Along the years has been lecturing in different schools in EU (Artesis-Antwerp, Elisava-Barcelona) Brasil (Unisinos-Porto Alegre), China (Polytechnic University-Hong Kong, Jiangnan University-Wuxi), has participated to several National and International Conferences and has participated and led many research programs (http://designview.wordpress.com/).

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Design and the reframing of participatory approaches in Cultural Heritage and museums beyond pandemic crisis

Digital for Heritage and Museums: Design-Driven Changes and Challenges

In the recent decade, cultural institutions have increasingly embraced digital technologies as ke... more In the recent decade, cultural institutions have increasingly embraced digital technologies as key resources for accomplishing their mission and innovating their cultural activities. In the present work, we attempt to disentangle through a design-driven and multidisciplinary approach the challenges brought by digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector. A diversified research team has thus been involved to include scholars with different backgrounds around the common phenomenon of investigation of Digital (Cultural) Heritage, under the Design Think Thank project. The Introduction is followed by a Methodological section, which outlines the approach to select and review case studies from the exploratory literature for producing a state-of-the-art report and delineates the methodology to map the main user behaviours and needs in the digital experience of CH throughout the value chain. The research team identified three relevant and major themes for the investigation: Digital Transformation, Inclusive Engagement and New Experience Rituals, which are addressed in the Literature Review Section. The state of the art is being addressed through the lenses of design research and practices; simultaneously, design knowledge emerges to have an agency in the transformation. The following section tries to triangulate the results from the literature review, and the mapping of users and stakeholders throughout the cultural institutions value chain, to track and highlight their role and interest in changing heritage panorama. The contribution of the present work wishes to consolidate the results gathered in the first phases of the TT, providing the design community of academics and practitioners with a theoretical contribution about digital changes and challenges of heritage and museums based on a design perspective.

Il design per i Beni culturali. Pratiche e processi innovativi di valorizzazione

One school: six themes, a common design project

Researching by design and co-designing with the users an intercultural museum experience

Designing typical knowledge repertoires. The case of Chinese intangible heritage active-action

Virtual Systems and MultiMedia, 2008

Design, arts and “aesthetics of innovation”

Strategic Design Research Journal, Oct 4, 2011

This paper explores the relation between art and design shifting it into the relation between aes... more This paper explores the relation between art and design shifting it into the relation between aesthetics and innovation. Art, is warm polarity of "aesthetic action" , functions as "agency" in the settlement of innovation, through strategies that can be analysed to defi ne some replicable processes applicable to the design context. The proposal is based on a triad of interactions among aesthetics (art) and innovation (design) that are technological aesthetics, symbolic aesthetics and relational aesthetics, which have respectively as drivers for innovation, new technologies, languages, behaviour and lead to new forms-function, forms-meanings and forms-process, covering the different scales of images/communication, objects/products and spaces/ interiors in art/design.

Innovating the scenario of scientific publishing in design: designing “living publications”

Strategic Design Research Journal, Apr 7, 2023

This article presents an ongoing research project aiming at innovating the modalities and formats... more This article presents an ongoing research project aiming at innovating the modalities and formats of scientific and academic publication of design research. The digital transformation and the open access paradigm have a considerable impact on the circulation of high-quality scientific production at global level: the challenge is to achieve innovative forms of authoritative, high-impact and effective scholarly communication, pursued with a multiscale and mixed media strategy, in order to guarantee an extended impact, while maintaining rigour and authority. In this context the scientific publication of design is taking on new forms and objectives too, so the design discipline can be a pivotal field for the experimentation and discussion of new scientific publication formats for scientific research. The article presents the preliminary findings of the project PRODE. Scientific production in design developed at the Design department of Politecnico di Milano: the case studies research and the proposal of Living Publications, that support the envisioning of future scenarios of scientific publishing and the development of an experimental prototype of Living publications Format in the design domain.

Policies and Infrastructures for Innovation and Impact in Open Science

Diid. Disegno industriale industrial design, Dec 23, 2022

In this interview Paolo Manghi discusses how policymaking, e-infrastructures and funding mechanis... more In this interview Paolo Manghi discusses how policymaking, e-infrastructures and funding mechanisms are trying to bring into everyday routine the difficult shift of mindset towards Open Science: a scenario of publishing service systems that supports communities with methodologies to produce concrete, testable and reusable scientific results.

Changing Academic Structures and Liberating Research

Diid. Disegno industriale industrial design, Dec 23, 2022

In this interview Sascha Friesike presents his vision about changing academic structures. Friesik... more In this interview Sascha Friesike presents his vision about changing academic structures. Friesike questions the fanatical fixation on "excellence" and promotes more freedom of research and greater plurality in academic careers. Furthermore, he hopes for a research landscape in which "impact" is understood as ideas that really matter and not as the perpetuation of perverse metrics. He argues that researchers should be supported in prioritizing the sharing of their content and trained to seek impact in the long term.

Dissenting Design

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Jul 1, 2017

Design and innovation for the Cultural Heritage. Phygital connections for a Heritage of proximity

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2021

Forme del craft, forme del progetto. Oltre le retoriche: per una innovazione Cultural driven

Il saggio propone, attraverso una disamina critica del concetto di craft e di alcuni progetti, un... more Il saggio propone, attraverso una disamina critica del concetto di craft e di alcuni progetti, una riflessione teorica sulla necessaria rinegoziazione di alcune retoriche del craft, ipotizzando un’agenda di innovazione della produzione culturale contemporanea per promuovere nuovi paradigmi di qualità craft based/intensive

Culture-Driven Meta-Products: Prototypes to Support a Culture-Intensive Design Practice

Advanced Design Relationship and Mutual Reframing between Global Makers and Local Craftsmen

This paper analyses two contemporary phenomena: local craftsmanship and the digital self-producti... more This paper analyses two contemporary phenomena: local craftsmanship and the digital self-production of the \u201cmakers\u201d. It highlights the role of \u201creactivating value\u201d which the designer already performs, intervening on the forms, functions and meaning of the process and products of local craftsmanship which, in many parts of the world, is suffering a market crisis. The study simultaneously criticises the current operational and, particularly, the cultural condition of the makers, who succeed in using technologies in the production phase and in online communication, often without achieving an adequate result on the contemporary market. It reports the case of an action carried out in Italy, through which design performs a contemporary re-signification and a re-framing of the value of craftsmanship, maintaining the essence of the authenticity that characterises the product and the process of the local master craftsman. This case shows that the designer can, in both cases (makers and craftsman), play an unprecedented key role of \u201ctriangulation\u201d of the experiences, succeeding in having makers and craftsmen work together, each borrowing the virtues of the other and mitigating the problems

“Chinese paper offerings active-action by design”

Teoria/Pratica. Dialoghi sul Design per i Territori 01

Milano www.dipartimentodesign.polimi.it www.d4t.polimi.it 1. Introduzione pag.03 2. Definire il "... more Milano www.dipartimentodesign.polimi.it www.d4t.polimi.it 1. Introduzione pag.03 2. Definire il "Design per i Territori" pag.05 3. Quale possibile futuro del rapporto teoria/pratica? pag.20 4. In Sintesi pag.23 5. Box n.1: Progetto di Ricerca Me.design pag.09 6. Box n.2: Progetto Social Food Club pag.14 7. Box n.3: Progetto COBRA pag.17 8. Note pag.27 9. References pag.28 10. Note Biografiche pag.30

Design-driven strategies for the sustainable textile heritage community in China

Design, beni culturali immateriali e “attivazione dell’autentico”: progettare il valore delle eredità culturali come “open-ended knowledge system”

I + diseño, Jan 9, 2011

Slow Design: "cultivar" cultura y sensorialidad en la forma y en el uso de los artefactos

Design and the reframing of participatory approaches in Cultural Heritage and museums beyond pandemic crisis

Digital for Heritage and Museums: Design-Driven Changes and Challenges

In the recent decade, cultural institutions have increasingly embraced digital technologies as ke... more In the recent decade, cultural institutions have increasingly embraced digital technologies as key resources for accomplishing their mission and innovating their cultural activities. In the present work, we attempt to disentangle through a design-driven and multidisciplinary approach the challenges brought by digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector. A diversified research team has thus been involved to include scholars with different backgrounds around the common phenomenon of investigation of Digital (Cultural) Heritage, under the Design Think Thank project. The Introduction is followed by a Methodological section, which outlines the approach to select and review case studies from the exploratory literature for producing a state-of-the-art report and delineates the methodology to map the main user behaviours and needs in the digital experience of CH throughout the value chain. The research team identified three relevant and major themes for the investigation: Digital Transformation, Inclusive Engagement and New Experience Rituals, which are addressed in the Literature Review Section. The state of the art is being addressed through the lenses of design research and practices; simultaneously, design knowledge emerges to have an agency in the transformation. The following section tries to triangulate the results from the literature review, and the mapping of users and stakeholders throughout the cultural institutions value chain, to track and highlight their role and interest in changing heritage panorama. The contribution of the present work wishes to consolidate the results gathered in the first phases of the TT, providing the design community of academics and practitioners with a theoretical contribution about digital changes and challenges of heritage and museums based on a design perspective.

Il design per i Beni culturali. Pratiche e processi innovativi di valorizzazione

One school: six themes, a common design project

Researching by design and co-designing with the users an intercultural museum experience

Designing typical knowledge repertoires. The case of Chinese intangible heritage active-action

Virtual Systems and MultiMedia, 2008

Design, arts and “aesthetics of innovation”

Strategic Design Research Journal, Oct 4, 2011

This paper explores the relation between art and design shifting it into the relation between aes... more This paper explores the relation between art and design shifting it into the relation between aesthetics and innovation. Art, is warm polarity of "aesthetic action" , functions as "agency" in the settlement of innovation, through strategies that can be analysed to defi ne some replicable processes applicable to the design context. The proposal is based on a triad of interactions among aesthetics (art) and innovation (design) that are technological aesthetics, symbolic aesthetics and relational aesthetics, which have respectively as drivers for innovation, new technologies, languages, behaviour and lead to new forms-function, forms-meanings and forms-process, covering the different scales of images/communication, objects/products and spaces/ interiors in art/design.

Innovating the scenario of scientific publishing in design: designing “living publications”

Strategic Design Research Journal, Apr 7, 2023

This article presents an ongoing research project aiming at innovating the modalities and formats... more This article presents an ongoing research project aiming at innovating the modalities and formats of scientific and academic publication of design research. The digital transformation and the open access paradigm have a considerable impact on the circulation of high-quality scientific production at global level: the challenge is to achieve innovative forms of authoritative, high-impact and effective scholarly communication, pursued with a multiscale and mixed media strategy, in order to guarantee an extended impact, while maintaining rigour and authority. In this context the scientific publication of design is taking on new forms and objectives too, so the design discipline can be a pivotal field for the experimentation and discussion of new scientific publication formats for scientific research. The article presents the preliminary findings of the project PRODE. Scientific production in design developed at the Design department of Politecnico di Milano: the case studies research and the proposal of Living Publications, that support the envisioning of future scenarios of scientific publishing and the development of an experimental prototype of Living publications Format in the design domain.

Policies and Infrastructures for Innovation and Impact in Open Science

Diid. Disegno industriale industrial design, Dec 23, 2022

In this interview Paolo Manghi discusses how policymaking, e-infrastructures and funding mechanis... more In this interview Paolo Manghi discusses how policymaking, e-infrastructures and funding mechanisms are trying to bring into everyday routine the difficult shift of mindset towards Open Science: a scenario of publishing service systems that supports communities with methodologies to produce concrete, testable and reusable scientific results.

Changing Academic Structures and Liberating Research

Diid. Disegno industriale industrial design, Dec 23, 2022

In this interview Sascha Friesike presents his vision about changing academic structures. Friesik... more In this interview Sascha Friesike presents his vision about changing academic structures. Friesike questions the fanatical fixation on "excellence" and promotes more freedom of research and greater plurality in academic careers. Furthermore, he hopes for a research landscape in which "impact" is understood as ideas that really matter and not as the perpetuation of perverse metrics. He argues that researchers should be supported in prioritizing the sharing of their content and trained to seek impact in the long term.

Dissenting Design

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Jul 1, 2017

Design and innovation for the Cultural Heritage. Phygital connections for a Heritage of proximity

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals), Dec 1, 2021

Forme del craft, forme del progetto. Oltre le retoriche: per una innovazione Cultural driven

Il saggio propone, attraverso una disamina critica del concetto di craft e di alcuni progetti, un... more Il saggio propone, attraverso una disamina critica del concetto di craft e di alcuni progetti, una riflessione teorica sulla necessaria rinegoziazione di alcune retoriche del craft, ipotizzando un’agenda di innovazione della produzione culturale contemporanea per promuovere nuovi paradigmi di qualità craft based/intensive

Culture-Driven Meta-Products: Prototypes to Support a Culture-Intensive Design Practice

Advanced Design Relationship and Mutual Reframing between Global Makers and Local Craftsmen

This paper analyses two contemporary phenomena: local craftsmanship and the digital self-producti... more This paper analyses two contemporary phenomena: local craftsmanship and the digital self-production of the \u201cmakers\u201d. It highlights the role of \u201creactivating value\u201d which the designer already performs, intervening on the forms, functions and meaning of the process and products of local craftsmanship which, in many parts of the world, is suffering a market crisis. The study simultaneously criticises the current operational and, particularly, the cultural condition of the makers, who succeed in using technologies in the production phase and in online communication, often without achieving an adequate result on the contemporary market. It reports the case of an action carried out in Italy, through which design performs a contemporary re-signification and a re-framing of the value of craftsmanship, maintaining the essence of the authenticity that characterises the product and the process of the local master craftsman. This case shows that the designer can, in both cases (makers and craftsman), play an unprecedented key role of \u201ctriangulation\u201d of the experiences, succeeding in having makers and craftsmen work together, each borrowing the virtues of the other and mitigating the problems

“Chinese paper offerings active-action by design”

Teoria/Pratica. Dialoghi sul Design per i Territori 01

Milano www.dipartimentodesign.polimi.it www.d4t.polimi.it 1. Introduzione pag.03 2. Definire il "... more Milano www.dipartimentodesign.polimi.it www.d4t.polimi.it 1. Introduzione pag.03 2. Definire il "Design per i Territori" pag.05 3. Quale possibile futuro del rapporto teoria/pratica? pag.20 4. In Sintesi pag.23 5. Box n.1: Progetto di Ricerca Me.design pag.09 6. Box n.2: Progetto Social Food Club pag.14 7. Box n.3: Progetto COBRA pag.17 8. Note pag.27 9. References pag.28 10. Note Biografiche pag.30

Design-driven strategies for the sustainable textile heritage community in China

Design, beni culturali immateriali e “attivazione dell’autentico”: progettare il valore delle eredità culturali come “open-ended knowledge system”

I + diseño, Jan 9, 2011

Slow Design: "cultivar" cultura y sensorialidad en la forma y en el uso de los artefactos

Digital Archive of Temporary Exhibitions: Enhancing the Design Culture

by Alessandra Spagnoli and Eleonora Lupo

This contribution deals with methods for documenting, archiving, visualizing and enhancing the cu... more This contribution deals with methods for documenting, archiving, visualizing and enhancing the culture of the exhibition design process by conceptualising a digital archive that experiments with new structures and narratives for an online experience of these documentary assets capturing the ephemeralness of exhibit design.
The “Digital archive of the temporary cultural exhibitions” collects an heterogeneous and complex set of documentation as sketches, maquettes, technical drawings, pictures, videos, in- terviews and so on. One can explore it through three different paths: the historical masters (where the user can find exhibitions made by the most famous designers in the past), different exhibitions for same place (where the user can do a comparison among different exhibitions in the same place) and contemporary experiences (where the designer explains the narrative of the whole exhibition process).