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From designing the curriculum to fostering engaging discussions, our dedicated team is here to support every step of your learning journey. Educators, program leaders, and staff members bring expertise, passion, and personalised guidance to ensure a rich and impactful daily experience.

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Driving the Master’s vision forward is a team from SUPSI’s Interaction Design Research Sector, continuously infusing the curriculum with the latest insights and methodologies. Their work bridges research and education, ensuring that our program reflects both pioneering trends and practical relevance. This dynamic approach provides students with an education grounded in innovation and responsive to the rapidly changing landscape of interaction design.

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Massimo Botta

Head of the Master Program Full Professor

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Serena Cangiano

Head of the FabLab Senior Researcher

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Nicolò Calegari

Master Commission Member

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Matteo Loglio

Master Commission Member

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Marco Lurati

FabLab Manager

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Giovanni Profeta

Researcher

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Antonella Autuori

PhD Student

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Matteo Subet

PhD Student

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Ginevra Terenghi

PhD Student

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Luca Draisci

Teaching & Research Assistant

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Alice Mioni

Teaching & Research Assistant

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Leading our Master’s learning journey is a teaching staff of international experts from academia and industry. Our course leaders bring their expertise to offer advanced, learning-by-doing training combining themes, tools and practices shaped by the latest advancements and interest in research and industry innovation. With dedicated guidance, our educators support students in expanding their skills and building foundational knowledge to design for the complexity of real-world challenges.

User Experience Design

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Designing Advanced Environments

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Academic Skills

Data Driven Design I

Data Driven Design II

Internship and Mobility Module

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Designing Advanced Services

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Designing Advanced Artifacts

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Business and Entrepreneurship

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Design Research for Thesis Definition

Interaction Design Seminars I

Interaction Design Seminars II

Internship and Mobility Module

Master Thesis Project

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Designing Advanced Services

The Business of Design

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Academic Skills

Design Research for Thesis Definition

Designing Advanced Artifacts

Master Thesis Project

The Business of Design

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Professional Skills

User Experience Design

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Physical Computing

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Designing Advanced Environments

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Designing Advanced Services

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Experimental Design 2

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Designing Advanced Services

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Experimental Design 1

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Digital Fabrication

Physical Computing

Programming Interactions

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Business and Entrepreneurship

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Portfolio Assessment

Soft Skills

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Portfolio Assessment

Soft Skills

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Programming Interactions

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Physical Computing

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Design Thinking

Human Centred Design

Professional Skills

User Experience Design

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Academic Skills

Data Driven Design I

Data Driven Design II

Internship and Mobility Module

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Designing Advanced Services

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Design Thinking

Professional Skills

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From practitioners to researchers to digital entrepreneurs, mentors and jury members, influential contributors have shaped this program into what it is today. Their insights, commitment, and innovation have left an indelible mark on our curriculum, creating a legacy of excellence that continues to inspire and guide our students.

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Driven by a forward-looking vision, the Master’s program has developed a distinguished and inspiring international network of guest speakers and lecturers who share different perspectives and case-studies on the real-world application of interaction design. Drawing from diverse practices and design cultures, they provide students with insights into technology, innovations, and thoughtful reflections on shaping the future of life-centered experiences.

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Tigris Li

Empathetic Hardware
Open lecture 24.11.2025
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Golan Levin

Post-LLM Creative Coding
Open lecture 20.11.2025
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Ambika Joshi

Code As a Practice of Care
Guest lecture 13.11.2025
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Matteo Roversi

Crushing on AI: My Journey to Native Thinking
Guest lecture 11.11.2025
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João Wilbert

Thinking By Making
Guest lecture 06.11.2025
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OMG! Jaw Dropping Craziest Image in 4K HDR Video at 120 FPS
Open lecture 07.07.2025

Arthi Manohar

Aylin Tschoepe

Teresa Almeida

Paulina Jurman

Laura Ferrarello

Design Perspectives on Digital Healthcare
Open lecture 04.06.2025

Laura Ferrarello

Ethics and Clinics
Open lecture 04.06.2025

Melanie Bossert

Generative UI
Open lecture 27.05.2025
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Michelle Duong

From Code to Physical Space: Interactive Typography in Motion
Open lecture 25.02.2025
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Marco Land

Marco Land
Open lecture 25.02.2025

Yaakov Lyubetsky

A Case for M(AI)king
Open lecture 28.01.2025
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Mónica Rikić

Mónica Rikić
Open lecture 15.01.2025
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Quayola

Data Exhibition: How does data transform into immersive spaces and environments?
Open lecture Watch 17.12.2024
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Tammara Leites

Simon Senn

Data for Training: Dsimon Performance
25.11.2024

Enrico Bravi

Data for Geospatial Mapping: How can data narrate locations
Open lecture 12.11.2024

Guillén Torres Sepulveda

Data for Investigation: How can data representation be employed to unveil the truth?
Open Lecture 29.10.2024

Sara Lenzi

Data Beyond Visual: Sonification: How does data sound?
Open lecture 16.10.2024

Beatrice Gobbo

Making sense of data: What are data and what is their role within design practices
Open lecture 26.09.2024

Adrian Segel

Data Physicalisation Practices for Exploiting Personal Data
Open lecture 09.07.2024

Calibro

Observing, Collecting, Unfolding, Republishing
Open lecture 15.05.2024

Kim Albrecht

Artificial Worldviews
Open lecture 23.04.2024

Mónica Bello

Art and science at CERN
Open lecture 28.11.2023

Ado Sollazzo

LAMAQUINA: Towards Bespoke Spatial Ecologies
Open lecture 13.11.2023

Iolanda Pensa

Open: How to Open Your Content and How to Re-Use Open Content
Open lecture 09.10.2023
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Mar Canet Sola

Interactive Aesthetics: Blazing New Trails in Artistic Expression
Open lecture 03.10.2023

Simone Rebaudengo

Artisan Intelligence
Open lecture 22.02.2023

Diletta Huyskes

Ethics and design of technology
Open lecture 22.02.2023

Marco Maria Pedrazzo

For few, some, many, or everybody
Open lecture 22.02.2023

Alastair Fuad Luke

Natureculture Communities: Opening the "Doors of Possibilities" through Design F(r)ictions
Open lecture 22.02.2023

Giorgio Olivero

Perfect behaviors, the reason of the algorithm redesigns the world
Open lecture 22.02.2023

Adrian Vickery Hill

Process Design — means rather than ends
Open lecture 22.02.2023
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Andrea Brena

Building Physical and Virtual Collaboration Spaces
Open lecture 08.11.2022
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Chiara Lino

Giulia Bazoli

Designing Design
Online seminar 13.10.2022

Siddharth Muthyala

Designing for Learning and Play
Open lecture 28.06.2022
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Martin Fröhlich

Of Inventing Things Humanity Has Not Been Asking For
02.05.2022
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Elliot Woods

Images That Change The Way We See
Open lecture 28.04.2022
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Edwin Jakobs

Experimental Data Visualization
Open lecture 14.04.2022
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Olga Kaiser

Learning - Where is AI today? From Ada Lovelace over Perceptron to Chatting with the Whales
Open lecture 15.03.2022

Carie Cunningham

My Voice Assistant Never Understands Me
Open lecture 14.03.2022
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Nicoletta Iacobacci

Metaverse, NFTs and Transmedia Storytelling
Open lecture 08.03.2022

Melanie Bossert

Conversational Design
Open lecture 01.03.2022

Mischa Schaub

Body No More
Open lecture 12.01.2022

Enrico Bassi

Co-design and Digital Fabrication to Create Innovative Circular Solutions
Open lecture 18.11.2021

Sabine Junginger

Matters of Design in Public Policy and Public Management
Workshop 28.10.2021

Aurora Rapalino

Personal Branding
Workshop 05.10.2021

Monica Mendini

Qualitative & Quantitative Techniques for Conducting Market Research
Seminario 05.10.2021

Serena Cangiano

From Human Centered Design to Community Centered Design
Open lecture 30.09.2021

Alice Mela

IxDA Day! Lecture by Alice Mela Creative Director at TODO
Open lecture 28.03.2021

Massimo Banzi

Trainable User Interface
Open lecture 23.03.2021

Massimo Botta

The Ongoing Transformation of Design
Open lecture 21.03.2021

Regula Staub

Creative Hub: We promote the Swiss creative industry
Open lecture 23.01.2020

Tania Longhitano

Funding program for innovative design and interactive media projects
Open lecture 23.01.2020

Sophie Lamparter

How to incubate creativity
Open lecture 23.01.2020

Elise Nardin

What can design do for us?
Open lecture 23.01.2020

Maria Smigielska

Automation and Creativity
Open lecture 22.01.2020

Boris Magrini

Digital and Media Art – Curatorial Strategies at HeK Basel?
Open lecture 22.01.2020

Jürg Lehni

Technology as Vocabulary / Discursive Machines
Open lecture 22.01.2020
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Luca Mascaro

Design for the future experience
Open lecture 21.01.2020

Nadja Müller

How to create an environment which enables participatory collaboration?
Open lecture 21.01.2020

Martin Kovakovsky

Made in Real-Time
Open lecture 21.01.2020

Kim Berry

What is Service Design?
Open lecture 21.01.2020

Lorenzo Romagnoli

Introduction to Prototyping for Interaction Designers
webinar 09.04.2019

Alok B. Nandi

Interactive Narrative
Open lecture 18.03.2019

Ilaria Scarpellini

User testing methodologies
Open lecture 05.03.2019

Sylvain Gardel

Design and Interactive Media in Switzerland
Open lecture 28.03.2018

Alessandra Angelucci

Florian Schulz

A Design Driven Development Approach
Open lecture 26.03.2018

Alessandro Mascheroni

Airware project
Seminar 25.01.2018

Francesca Faraci

Michela Papandrea

Autoplay - An objective and free of context conditioning system for the evaluation of very young children’s ludic development
Seminar 25.01.2018

Marc Laperrouza

CHIP China Innovation Platform
Seminar 25.01.2018

Serena Cangiano

Design for Tech Education
Seminar 25.01.2018

Vanessa De Luca

InLife - Incubate a New Learning and Inspiration Framework for Education
Seminar 25.01.2018

Alessandro Giusti

“Mighty thymio” for teaching robotics and Machine Learning
Seminar 25.01.2018

Maria Luce Lupetti

Shybo. A low-anthropomorphic robot for children
Seminar 25.01.2018

Lucio Negrini

Training in educational robotics
Seminar 25.01.2018

Bruno Schillinger

Big kids making kits
Open lecture 16.11.2017

Luca Mascaro

Fever Pitch
Open lecture 16.10.2017

Joni Steiner

Opendesk: Towards a Local Means of Production
Open lecture 29.09.2017

Massimo Banzi

Interaction Design for AI
Open lecture 19.09.2017

Viviana Narotzky

Keeping It Open, Or, Why Design Is Not What It Used To Be
Open lecture 06.04.2016

Fabrizio Lo Presti

User Experience design, Bruno Munari and fresh perspectives
Open lecture 04.03.2016

Andrea Anner

Salts & Serif
Open lecture 02.02.2016

Oleg Lavrovsky

Open doors in a quantified society
Open lecture 19.01.2016

Paolo Ciuccarelli

Density Design
Open lecture 12.01.2016

Massimo Banzi

User Experience design in IOT
Open lecture 17.12.2015
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Urs Gaudenz

Marc Dusseiler

Open Source Generic Lab Equipement – Interaction beyond the Interface
Open lecture 27.11.2015

Mariam Mahdavi

Lift Conference
Open lecture 14.10.2015

Damiano Gui

Sense-able design
Open lecture 24.09.2015

Dario Buzzini

Prototype is the new black: Or why being an Interaction Designer today is a damn good idea
Open lecture 14.09.2015

Benjamin Wiederkehr

User-Centered & Data-Driven: A love story between user experience and data visualization
Open lecture 26.03.2015

Luca Mascaro

Design for the experience
Open lecture 14.03.2015

Claudia Mareis

Critical Media Lab
Open lecture 24.02.2015

Alessandro Masserdotti

DotDotDot Studio
Open lecture 19.02.2015

Giulio Masotti

Movement Obsession: how to go from stop motion animation to Mass customisation without realising
Open lecture 12.02.2015

Varvara Guljajeva

From code to Magic
Open lecture 05.02.2015

Giorgio Olivero

Communicating museums today
Open lecture 29.01.2015

Davide Rocchesso

Sounding Objects and Sonic Sketches
Open lecture 10.12.2014

Bruce Sterling

Open source apartment - Casa Jasmina
Open lecture 26.11.2014

Cristina Riesen

Evernote
Open lecture 20.11.2014

Thomas Amberg

Building connected objects
Open lecture 13.11.2014

Thibault Brevet

Physical devices as medium
Open lecture 06.11.2014

Digital Habits

Wonder beyond shape
Open lecture 29.10.2014

Daniel Sciboz

New media and interaction design
Open lecture 27.03.2014

Andy Polain

Service design for multichannel experiences
Open lecture 12.03.2014

Franco Rolle

N03!
Open lecture 13.02.2014

Michel Vust

Mobile in touch with digital creation
Open lecture 04.02.2014

Gerhard Buurman

Trust - a design issue
Open lecture 31.01.2014

Ramun Hofmann

89grad and fablab Bern
Open lecture 16.01.2014

Digital Habits

How computing is changing products: design, manufacturing, distribution, users
Open lecture 12.12.2013

Simone Rebaudengo

Secret lives of connected products, or what happens when a product is suddenly connected
Open lecture 06.12.2013

Jospeh Forakis

From Products to Companies: strategic design and innovation in the physical / digital continuum
Open lecture 05.12.2013

Peter Troxler

Third Industrial Revolution: Openness, cooperation, lateral power, new values
Seminar and workshop 22.11.2013

Paolo Rigamonti

Limiteazero
Open lecture 14.11.2013

Dario Buzzini

IDEO
Open lecture 07.11.2013

Zoe Romano

From Open Source Brand to Digital Fabrication
Open lecture 17.10.2013

Alvise Mattozzi

Semiotic for Technical Fields
Seminar 17.10.2013

Sybille Omlin

Interactive artifacts and multimedia art in Switzerland
Open lecture 02.10.2013

Satomi Sugiyama

Investigating Symbolic Meanings of a Personal Communication Technology: Possibilities for the Designing Process
Seminar 02.10.2013

Luca Triacca

Stakeholders user centred design
Seminar 19.09.2013

Giorgio Olivero

The Career of the Interaction Designer
16.09.2013

Andreas Simon

Introduction to Virtual and Mixed Reality
Open lecture 22.03.2012

Gillian Crampton Smith

Mood and meaning in interaction design
Open lecture 15.03.2012

Karmen Franinovic

Enactive Spaces: Or how does activated matter affect creative practices?
Open lecture 08.03.2012

Nicolas Nova

From field research to design
Open lecture 01.03.2012

Satomi Sugiyama

Tool, partner, or a body part? Use patterns and metaphors for the relationship between people and the mobile communication device in a case of Japan
Open lecture 14.02.2012

Franco Rolle

Experience design, work on intangible heritage
Open lecture 08.02.2012

Alessandro Masserdotti

dotdotdot works
Open lecture 26.01.2012

Tom Igoe

When physical computing meets design, architecture and arts
Open lecture 09.01.2012
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  • Head of the Master Program
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Massimo (PhD) is a full professor and Head of both the MA Program in Interaction Design and the Research Area in Interaction Design at the SUPSI Institute of Design. His research focuses on design education, methodologies, data visualization, and human-computer interaction. Through the organization of international conferences and the editing of scholarly publications, he actively contributes to the international discourse on the evolution of design research in relation to other scientific fields and the advancement of design education.

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Serena Cangiano

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  • Head of the FabLab
  • Senior Researcher

Serena (PhD), a SUPSI researcher, heads the FabLab DACD, focusing on digital fabrication and open innovation. Formerly coordinator of the MAS in Interaction Design, she operates at the nexus of design, tech, and making. Cangiano designs and leads international workshops, has co-edited publications like "Open Technologies," and co-founded Ethafa, a kit teaching coding to children. She's presented at LIFT and HEK and received an ETH Zürich grant.

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Nicolò Calegari

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  • Master Commission Member

Nicolò works as Principal Designer at Spark Reply, where he leads teams of designers on national and international projects covering the design process end-to-end, supporting clients from the opportunity framing until the delivery of the final solution or product. His main role is to coordinate and lead Spark design teams in the process of translating users’ needs and business requirements into valuable and delightful experiences leveraging a design-driven methodology, with a particular focus on the Interaction Design discipline.

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Matteo Loglio

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  • Master Commission Member

Matteo is an interaction designer and creative director. A founder at oio, Matteo builds playful products and tools for a less boring future, with clients like YouTube, IKEA, Spotify, and Snap. Previously at Google Creative Lab, he co-founded Primo Toys, bringing educational robots to millions of kids. Matteo speaks globally about how design can help shape our collective future. His work showed up at MoMA, the V&A, Triennale Milano, and was honoured with Red Dots, IXDAs, Cannes Lions, and D&AD

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Marco Lurati

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  • FabLab Manager

Marco blends engineering and design with a focus on tech innovation. As a Creative Technologist, he builds interactive installations for artists and museums, engineers custom hardware and embedded systems, and consults on UX, prototyping, and product development. He drives ideas from concept to execution across disciplines. Teaching with hands-on field experience, he provides students with a solid foundation in coding and digital fabrication, along with design methodologies for prototyping.

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Giovanni Profeta

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  • Researcher

Giovanni holds a PhD in Design from Politecnico di Milano, where he developed a thesis on user interfaces for cultural archives. After obtaining a master in Visual and Multimedia Communication from the University IUAV of Venice, he collaborated with interaction design studios based in Italy. At SUPSI, he conducts applied research projects focused on visualization methods to explore complex cultural and environmental data. He also holds Interaction Design and Data Visualization courses.

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Antonella Autuori

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  • PhD Student

Antonella works at the Institute of Design at SUPSI. In 2022, she contributed to “Designing With”, a Movetia-funded project developed with EPFL and Universidade Nova de Lisboa to integrate AI, machine learning, and data visualization into design curricula. She is currently a PhD student in Design at RMIT University, where her research explores how design can critically address epistemic and representational biases in generative AI and foster reflective, responsible engagement. Since 2022, she has also been a programme committee member of VISAP.

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Matteo Subet

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  • PhD Student

Matteo is an interaction designer with a background in product/nautical design (Uni Genova) and an MA in Interaction Design (SUPSI). A former freelance web designer, he explores physical computing. His MA thesis, DiPLab, digitized lab testing for antimicrobial resistance awareness. Since 2023, Subet is a teaching/research assistant at SUPSI's Institute of Design, focusing on new tech, physical computing, and interaction design research.

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Ginevra Terenghi

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  • PhD Student

Ginevra works at the Institute of Design, SUPSI, focusing on participatory practices to raise awareness and promote bottom-up data collection methods. She contributes to the MAKEAWARE! project, which tackles antibiotic resistance among citizens. She is also a PhD student in design at Brunel University London, researching data physicalization for symptom interpretation and communication. Ginevra holds a Communication Design degree from Politecnico di Milano.

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Luca Draisci

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  • Teaching & Research Assistant

Luca, a data visualization designer (MSc, Politecnico di Milano 2023), has worked as a freelance web designer and research assistant in digital humanities. He's collaborated with UN WFP, NYU, and UvA. His thesis introduced a tool for YouTube video analysis. Luca focuses on new tech applications in social research, data-driven communication design, and interactive visualizations. In 2024, he joined SUPSI as a teaching assistant for the MA in Interaction Design.

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Alice Mioni

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  • Teaching & Research Assistant

Alice is a graphic and interaction designer with a Master of Arts in Interaction Design from SUPSI. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the World Expo Osaka 2025, showcasing kinetic installations that explore emerging technologies. She focuses on generative workflows, sensor-augmented spaces, and responsive visual narratives to develop tools for more accountable futures. Since 2025, she works as a teaching assistant at SUPSI's Institute of Design.

Alberto Andreetto

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Alberto is a designer with a focus on interaction and service design. He worked for startups and corporations in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany before joining Sketchin in 2017. Since then, he designed services in Italy, Switzerland, Angola, Russia, Germany, and UAE paying attention to how a user should interact with any kind of services and interfaces. Lately he focused on digital prototyping and on designing human interaction mediated by technology carrying out different projects with a human core interaction.

Leonardo Angelucci

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Leonardo is an art director, graphic designer and coder based in Zurich. He founded UNSTATED, a creative studio based in Zurich, where he collaborates with a wide array of national and international clients, focusing mainly on projects within the cultural and institutional field. His work is characterized by a blend of graphic design and technology. In addition to his professional practice at his studio, Leonardo is deeply involved in academic circles. He lectures on graphic design and interaction design at various universities throughout Switzerland and internationally.

Giorgio Baresi

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Giorgio is Executive Design Director at Spark Reply, leading a multidisciplinary team of service, interaction, and visual designers in Milan and Munich. With over 15 years of experience as both designer and manager, he has collaborated with clients like Novartis, Roche, GE, Intel, AXA, Generali, and Swisscom, shaping ideas into meaningful products and services. As both professor and design director, he mentors young talents to prepare them for today’s evolving design landscape.

Enrico Bassi

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Enrico Bassi is a designer, maker, researcher, and innovation consultant. He managed Fab Lab Italia (the first Italian Fab Lab), Fab Lab Torino, and OpenDot. He participated in projects, trainings, and events in more than 35 countries around the World, from the USA to Bhutan, from Djibouti to Finland. He coordinated international grassroots innovation and research projects in diversity, inclusion, and sustainability, codesigning solutions with the communities and has been in the founding team of careables.org and fabcare.network

Leandro Bitetti

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Leandro is Head of the MSc in Business Administration with Major in Innovation Management and lecturer-researcher at SUPSI’s Competence Centre for Management and Entrepreneurship. He is a Ph.D. student in Business Model Innovation at USI and holds an MSc in Management from the University of Lausanne. He focuses on education, research, and consulting in innovation and entrepreneurship, and is involved in initiatives like the Boldbrain startup challenge, where he serves on the Regional Jury.

Sarah Corti

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Sarah is a freelance design leader and Managing Director of Cosmico Studios, formerly Chief Design Officer at Sketchin. With 10+ years of experience, she helps brands shape meaningful transformations through design, driving innovation and enhancing human experience. She’s worked with Artemide, Fastweb, Sky, Mondadori, FC Internazionale, RSI, SUPSI, and more. As Professor and Design Director, she mentors young talents to face tomorrow’s challenges in a constantly evolving industry.

Ubi De Feo

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Ubi, born in 1974, grew up without the Internet and witnessed its rise into everyday life. Curious since childhood, he explored how things work by hacking computers, engines, and electronics. He moved to Amsterdam in 2002, worked as a Creative Technologist, and later focused on building tangible experiences. Now at Arduino, he’s product owner of software tools and IoT. He teaches programming and prototyping, loves learning to explain complex topics simply, and is currently into woodworking.

Marco De Mutiis

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Marco De Mutiis is Digital Curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur, where he leads research on algorithmic and networked images. He co-curated the exhibitions How to Wint at Photography – Image-Making as Play and The Lure of the Image, as well as the live streaming programme Screen Walks. He is the co-author of The Photographer’s Guide to Los Santos and co-editor of Screen Images In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast, and Fotoludica. Fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione. He is part of the artist duo 2girls1comp.

Martina Granello

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Martina is a dynamic design professional with a diverse background in crafting transformative user experiences. She has partnered with start-ups and established companies, leading venture design, strategic repositioning, and redesign projects. Currently Design Lead at Spark Reply in Milan, she aims to inspire her team and shape meaningful change. As a service designer, she aligns user needs and business goals through a holistic approach, coordinating teams to deliver impactful, lasting experiences.

Andreas Gysin

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Andreas was born in Zurich, and currently lives and works as a graphic and interaction designer in Lugano. Writing custom programs is part of his design process independently of the output medium. Whenever he is not busy working on commercial or experimental projects, he teaches interaction design and programming at SUPSI (Lugano), ECAL (Lausanne), ISIA (Urbino), and at occasional workshops worldwide.

Loris Lento

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Loris Lento is a driven Senior Experience Designer at Spark Reply, with over five years of experience creating meaningful digital products and services. He specializes in leading cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams to deliver design solutions that are user-centered and strategically aligned. His work spans complex design challenges for international clients, always placing users at the heart of the process. Loris designs intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and curates AI-enabled experiences bridging innovation and usability.

Monica Mendini

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Monica is a research lecturer in Marketing at the Department of Business Economics, Health and Social Care at SUPSI. Before joining, she earned a PhD in Marketing (SNSF Doc.CH) from Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, where she still teaches. Her research focuses on consumer behavior, particularly consumer-brand relationships, cause-marketing, design thinking, food consumption, and well-being. Her work appears in journals like Journal of Business Research and Journal of Consumer Behaviour.

Denise Orifici

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Denise is Head of Design at Subbyx, one of Italy’s most promising startups. Her career spans Industrial Design, Communication & Branding, Motion & Video, and, for the past eight years, her passion: UX/UI. She has worked with top companies across industries, tackling complex challenges. As a digital product designer, she ensures quality, seamless interaction, and brand consistency. She also collaborates with universities, teaching methods that lead to success in digital design at every stage.

Sara Palmiotti

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Sara blends technical and creative skills, with a background in computer engineering and a specialization in Interaction Design at SUPSI. She is Senior UX/UI Designer at Algor Education, where she helps build accessible digital learning tools. Formerly at frog, she worked on healthcare projects, designing innovative and user-centered solutions. Certified in accessibility by IAAP, she is committed to creating inclusive experiences that serve diverse users and promote usability for all.

Lorenzo Romagnoli

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Lorenzo Romagnoli is a designer and creative technologist focusing on interactive installations, prototyping, and physical computing. At SUPSI he leads the Physical Computing module within the MA in Interaction Design, guiding students in programming embedded systems, working with sensors and actuators, and building tangible interfaces.

Enrico Tedoldi

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Enrico is a freelance designer and director. Previously, he worked as a Design Director at Sketchin. He is dedicated to crafting experiences with the primary goal of simplifying and enhancing people’s lives. His approach to exploration and design is deeply shaped by his background in academic research, a strong curiosity for emerging technologies, and a hands-on mindset focused on making and prototyping. He also teaches design and innovation at POLI.design – Politecnico di Milano, SUPSI, and Talent Garden Innovation School.

Maria Paola Valicenti

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Mariapaola is a design leader who transforms emerging technologies into human-centred experiences. As Design Director at Spark Reply in Milan, she guides multidisciplinary teams from opportunity framing to product launch across sectors like finance, mobility, and healthcare. Recently, she has focused on GenAI-enabled experiences. She also teaches Intelligent Experiences at SUPSI, inspiring future designers to merge strategy, creativity, and tech to create impactful, inclusive solutions.

Elena Zordan

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Elena is General Manager at Sketchin Switzerland with 10+ years of experience as Executive Design Director. She crafts integrated UX/CX strategies across digital and physical products, services, and ecosystems. Her expertise bridges design, innovation, and business strategy. She has led multidisciplinary teams in sectors like finance, e-commerce, fashion, pharma, and energy. Elena teaches at SUPSI, Politecnico di Milano, and LIUC, focusing on Design Thinking, Research, and Business Design.

Thomas Amberg

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Andrea Anner

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Madeline Balaam

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Massimo Banzi

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Sabina Barcucci

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Giulia Bazoli

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Ramun Hofmann

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Anish Bhuwania

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David Boardman

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Laura Bordin

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Melanie Bossert

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Andrea Brena

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Thibault Brevet

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Simone Chiani

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Matthias Christen

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Piyush Churad

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Tommaso Colombo

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Gillian Crampton Smith

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Paolo Decaro

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Paolo Decaro, Design Director at Spark Reply, leverages experience design and strategy to help companies innovate, manage change, and center on their users. He has worked across diverse industries including healthcare, insurance, automotive, and education. Decaro believes empathy is crucial for understanding user needs and aligning them with business objectives to create impactful solutions.

Antonio De Pasquale

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Fabio Franchino

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Gabriele Gambotto

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Laura Gonzalez

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Elisabeth Graf

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Elisabeth Graf is a freelance service designer, with experience at agencies like Livework and Idean (now frog) across healthcare, travel, and fintech. She crafts engaging service experiences, supports change, and translates research into actionable insights. Graf coaches companies in Service Design and facilitates workshops for institutions like Politecnico di Milano. She founded IMMA, a collective aiding organizations in climate adaptation and disaster resilience.

Fabian Harb

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Bill Keays

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Eunggyu Lee

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Laura Licari

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Maria Luce Lupetti

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Andreas Markdalen

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Carla Marzo

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Alessandro Masserdotti

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Alice Mela

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Alice Mela designs user-centered interactive experiences for products, museums, and events, focusing on UX. With a background in Product/Interaction Design and nearly 10 years' experience, she leads large projects from concept to completion. An active Fablab community member since 2011, she's VP of Fablab Torino. Mela teaches UX and interactive prototyping at institutions like IED, NABA, and SUPSI.

Matteo Moretti

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Alessandro Mura

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Giorgio Olivero

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Mattia Parietti

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Innocenzo Rifino

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Diego Rossi

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Alberto Samaniego

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Ilaria Scarpellini

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Daniel Sciboz

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Bruce Sterling

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Satomi Sugiyama

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Jules Toulemonde

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Ariane Van Divoet

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Gianluca Brugnoli

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Gerhard Buurman

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Dario Buzzini

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Paolo Ciuccarelli

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Marc Dusseiler

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Guillermina Fabiola Noel

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Jospeh Forakis

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Karmen Franinovic

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Jorge Frascara

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Urs Gaudenz

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Maurizio Gnot

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Varvara Guljajeva

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Tom Igoe

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Oleg Lavrovsky

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Fabrizio Lo Presti

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Mariam Mahdavi

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Claudia Mareis

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Luca Mascaro

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Giulio Masotti

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Alessandro Giusti

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Alvise Mattozzi

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Viviana Narotzky

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Klaus Obermaier

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Sybille Omlin

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Guido Parlato

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Martina Perrin

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Andy Polain

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Cristina Riesen

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Davide Rocchesso

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Franco Rolle

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Zoe Romano

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Fabio Sergio

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Andreas Simon

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Luca Triacca

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Peter Troxler

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Roberto Vitalini

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Michel Vust

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Benjamin Wiederkehr

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Jan-Christoph Zoels

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Andrea Huber

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Roberta Tassi

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Aurora Rapalino

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Sabine Junginger

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Mischa Schaub

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Nicoletta Iacobacci

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Chiara Lino

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Edwin Jakobs

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Elliot Woods

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Martin Kovakovsky

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Enrico Bravi

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