Master of PSSD

Expert Design Talks.
Shaping Relations Otherwise

🗓 March 17th, 2026 | 14:15

We’re excited to welcome Josina Vink for an online lecture exploring how service design can help rethink the relationships that shape our social and ecological systems.

Starting from the context of today’s interconnected global crises, the talk invites us to move beyond the idea that people, organizations, and systems exist separately. Drawing on relational perspectives from Sociology and Anthropology, the lecture introduces four principles of relationality in service design: how actors are formed through relationships, how service systems emerge from complex entanglements, how agency arises through interaction, and how change unfolds through ongoing processes of becoming.
The session will also discuss what these ideas mean in practice, offering reflections on how designers can engage differently with the systems and relationships they help shape.

💻 Online (Webex): https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/daniela.sangiorgi

Expert Design Talks.
Service Design & Data Engineering: an alliance towards impacts

🗓 March 12th, 2026 | 11:00

We’re excited to welcome Davide Posillipo (Komebi Studio) for a lecture exploring how a collaborative approach between Service Design and Data Engineering can amplify the impact of data-driven services.

The talk explores a holistic perspective on data that spans from its generation and management to service integration. By highlighting real-world applications, it defines strategies to shape the Post-Technical Data Practitioner, a hybrid professional capable of bridging and evolving this intersection.


💻 Online (Webex): https://politecnicomilano.webex.com/meet/francesco.leoni

The Bloomsbury Handbook of SERVICE DESIGN: Plural perspectives and a critical contemporary agenda” edited by Lara Penin, Alison Prendiville, and Daniela Sangiorgi.
To connect with the book’s international community of co-authors and readers, the launch will unfold through two online events in February 2026, followed by three in-person events in Milan, London, and New York.
In presence events have limited seats available, stay tuned for registration!
For Milan’s event we already want to thank our collaborator , and .polimi community.

The PSSD course has always been a vibrant melting pot of cultures 🌍✨. This year, we have 21 different nationalities from 6 continents. We warmly welcome everyone to connect, share, and learn from each other – because internationality adds a unique color to our learning journey!

For the 2025, we invite you tomorrow, September 20th, to Coltivando for a day in the garden at Bovisa Candiani Campus 🌱.

There will be guided tours, readings, music 🎶, and a shared lunch. We look forward to seeing you!

🔗 Reconnect for Future: Intergenerational Design Jam
As part of the celebration of 20 years of PSSD, we teamed up with PACO Design Collaborative to host a special jam where students, alumni, and professionals came together across generations. ✨

A playful and creative space — a chance to experiment, connect, and break out of the usual boxes. 🎨🌀

A moment to reflect, make, and imagine together.
Thank you to everyone who took part!
Don’t forget to share your photos! 💬🤝