Prodect

10/07/2019

Design Thinking + Ideation + Concept Development + Prototyping + Team Work + Fun = PRODECT 2019!!

05/07/2019

Diner time !!

05/07/2019

Design optimization class by Prof. Panos Papalampros, University of Michigan

31/05/2019

In PRODECT 2019 we have the honor to have Mario de Liguori, product and strategic designer at Politecnico di Milano as an invited speaker.

Mario de Liguori is a product and strategic designer. He currently leads research and teaching activity at Politecnico di Milano. Member of CILAB (Creative Industries Lab), also teaches design in Product Development Studio, a fundamental course of Integrated Product Design Master’s Degree. Thanks to such institution, Mario has today the opportunity to collaborate with other international universities and companies, such as Kinder-Ferrero, 3M, Mitsubishi, Oppein, Midea, Radici Group, Rotho, Chiba University of Tokyo, and many more. Keeping solid foundations on Product Design, he has also been walking in several other territories of design. From graphic design and communication, to strategic consulting, collaborating as employee or freelance for studios and companies, finally founding in 2009 his own design studio. He started designing gardening furniture and accessories made by rotational moulding, later collaborated with Fabio Lenci (“Compasso D’oro” prize winner for design career) by designing boats interiors, bathroom and kitchen furniture and accessories, developing projects for famous Italian brands, like Teuco, Guzzini and many more. Designer and maker of prototypes and physical mockups, he believes in design both as theory and practice. He corroborated strategic design skills thanks to a meaningful experience for Illycaffè, a premium Italian coffee company, appreciated for product quality, but also for its brand strategy oriented toward art and design. Along with other colleagues Mario founded into that company an innovation centre operating for Brand & Strategy division. He believes in continuing training and education, by alternating professional practice, teaching and research work. In-between teaching and professional work, he is also trying to launch a new design studio specifically aimed to promote students and young talents, working together in a fluid and network-based collaboration, triggering both physical and virtual connections, in order to design products and strategies for international clients worldwide.

02/05/2019

In PRODECT 2019 we have the honor to have Assoc. Prof. Georgios Priniotakis, University of West Attica, as an invited speaker.

Georgios Priniotakis is an Associate Professor in University of West Attica, School of Engineering, Dept. of Industrial Design and Engineering, Greece. His background is in Technical Textiles with focus on Intelligent Textiles and Sustainable Technology Solutions. For several years was National Representative of Greece to boards and committees in the activities of the European Research Area of embedded systems. He has published numerous scientific papers and he has participated in many International conferences over the last 25 years. He's a reviewer in various Scientific Journals and participated in a number of Research and Education Projects. Member of various Scientific conference committees and Chairman of the Organizing Committee of bi-annual conference AITAE.

24/04/2019

In PRODECT 2019 we have the honor to have Daniela Maurer, designer and researcher at Politecnico di Milano, as an invited speaker.

Daniela Maurer is a researcher of POLI.design, specifically on applied researches for companies and multinational corporations, and teaches in the Polytechnic Design School issues of interior and product design. Besides the academic experience, she has a strong professional experience in the field, since she has been working for 9 years in the Marco Ferreri design studio, in Milan, where she collaborated in the development and creation of new product designs, graphics and installations. With the same multidisciplinary approach, since 2007 she has been started her freelance activity with various companies and agencies, developing also research projects on the relationship between design and crafts, individually or in group with other designers. In 2015 she curated and designed the “Design for School” exhibition, in Como, investigating the evolution of the relationship between the worlds of design and school in Italy. The exhibition was part of Xtra calendar of events, organised by the Milan Triennale in occasion of the Expo 2015. Since 2013 she started to collaborate with universities like Naba_Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (The New Accademy of Arts)_Milan, the University of San Marino and since september 2016 she starts to teach at Milan Polytechnic in the first year course of the Bachelor degree of Interior Design. In the last 3 years she developed also skills in the strategic design field thanks to the collaboration with POLI.design.

22/04/2019

In PRDECT 2019, we have the honor to have Prof. Panos Papalambros, University of Michigan, as an invited speaker.

Panos Y. Papalambros is the James B. Angell Distinguished University Professor and the Donald C. Graham Professor of Engineering. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Architecture, and Professor of Art and Design; and serves as the founding Chair and Professor of the Integrative Systems & Design Division, College of Engineering, at the University of Michigan. He holds a diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (1974) from the National Technical University of Athens and MS (1976) and PhD (1979) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He has served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 1979. During his tenure at Michigan he served as mechanical engineering department chair (199298, and 2007-08) and as founding director of several research laboratories and centers: Optimal Design (ODE) Laboratory (1980-); Design Laboratory (1990-92); Ford Durability Simulation Center (1992-94); Automotive Research Center (1994-2003); General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory (1998-2002); the Antilium Project (2003-2008), and the Ford BlockM Sustainability Laboratory (2006-2009). He was the founding chair and director of the University of Michigan interdisciplinary Design Science Doctoral Program (20062011). His research interests include design science and design optimization, with applications to sustainable design, automotive systems, such as hybrid and electric vehicles; design of complex engineered systems; and architectural design. With D. J.Wilde, he co-authored the textbook Principles of Optimal Design: Modeling and Computation (1988, 2000, 2016 forthcoming). He has published over 340 articles in journals, conference proceedings, and books.

25/03/2019

The official PRODECT 2019 program

23/03/2019

23/03/2019

The Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering (University of the Aegean) organizes, for a third year, a Summer School on “Industrial Product Design and Concept Development – PRODECT 2019” at its facilities in Syros Island, Greece, 1 – 8/7/2019.

PRODECT’19 is an International Summer School that focuses on methodologies and techniques that concern the Concept Development and the Preliminary Design of an industrial product. The school includes a series of courses divided into theoretical lectures and workshops, where the trainees are familiarized with brainstorming techniques and modern computer-based design technologies. A product design project will run from the first day of the school and will put the participants into the designer’s sit, aiming at the development of a new product that will meet modern needs. The school is for professionals and students of any academic level that wish to enrich or update their knowledge in the area of product preliminary and concept design. All sessions will be carried out in English. All undergraduate students that will successfully fulfill course requirements will receive 2 ECTS.

The invited speakers of summer school are coming from academia and industrial sector with a vast international experience in product design (Politecnico di Milano, University of Michigan, University of West Attica).

For further information and applications please follow this link: https://summer-schools.aegean.gr/PRODECT2019

Deadline for applications: 1/6/2019
Deadline for discounted fees: 5/6/2019
Deadline for scholarship application: 15/5/2019