design for food: innovation in circular food systems - ed.4

DIPARTIMENTO DI DESIGN

The Master integrates extensive design and engineering skills with thematic and specific competences in the food area, related to humanities, food technology and gastronomic sciences. It therefore provides generalist knowledge and specific in-depth studies on methods and tools for the design of the product-service system; on basic elements useful for the understanding of culture, sociological and anthropological factors related to the food sector; and on specific sciences, technologies and techniques. As a whole, it provides an explanatory and comprehensive overview of food systems, from agricultural production to food processing, from distribution to consumption, from planning to recycling in a circular economy perspective. The Master is organized according to a mix of theory and practice that sees the alternation of lessons and hands-on activities on projects and exercises organized in the form of workshops or applied experiences, such as study-tours and compulsory internship. It trains design and consulting profiles who are able to integrate creative and operational skills, through the development of hard and soft skills, which train participants to work in multidisciplinary teams, in competitive and highly strategic contexts, in quick and dynamic organizations. The Master is offered to a national and international market and will therefore be held in English.

The Specializing Master in DESIGN FOR FOOD aims to train professionals, entrepreneurs, consultants with competences in the design and management of systems, processes and products- services in the food sector. Innovators characterized by a profile combining the design and experimental approach of design with the thematic knowledge of the logics of the food sector in all its extension "from field to table", including the traditional and more advanced production and distribution systems and with a specific attention to sustainability. The sector, which already expresses innovation and project-oriented experiments and experiences, requires transversal expertise able to integrate in a strategic way the different design factors. For this reason, the Master completes the design (about systems, strategies, services, products-services and communication) and food engineering skills, brought by the Politecnico di Milano, with the thematic and specific ones in the food area related to humanities, food technology and gastronomic sciences, thanks to a faculty of external lecturers and professionals. Participants will be able to: 1) understand the socio-economic and environmental transformations of the sector; 2) outline innovative models and strategic orientations for the specific sector; 3) use theoretical and critical skills to define sustainable design opportunities; 4)understand and use the potential of the sector's technologies, as well as the main elements of the production processes of the various supply chains; 5)identify the territorial impacts of food supply chains; 6)know the main elements of food safety and planning; 7)design complex solutions and their declinations in terms of product, service and communication; 8) use specific design tools for design; 10) recognise all the phases of the conception, design, development and implementation process of an innovative solution.

The Master welcomes candidates with a Degree or Specialist/Master's Degree or a First or Second Level Academic Diploma in Design, Engineering, Architecture, Economics and/or Management, Social Sciences/Humanistic Sciences, Gastronomic Sciences, Agriculture, Food Technology, or to people with other types of degrees who have also gained significant professional and work experience and who wish to strengthen their professional path in the field of food innovation, acquiring and developing specific and qualified competences. Equivalent foreign qualifications in their respective university systems will be considered valid.

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Director: STEFANO MAFFEI

Co-Director: FRANCESCO BOMBARDI

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