Medardo Chiapponi

Vice President, Faculty of Arts and Design, University IUAV of Venice, Italy

Present position:
  •  Full Professor of Industrial Design, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Design and Arts,
  •  Director of the Undergraduate Program in Industrial Design and Director of the
      Master in Medical Design at the Universit Iuav di Venezia.

Previous academic positions:
  •  Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
  •  Professor of Industrial Design at the Hochschule fr Gestaltung Schwbisch Gmnd (Germany).
  •  Professor of Environmental Design at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy).


Key qualifications:
  •  International Fellow of the "Society for the Science of Design Studies, Japan".
  •  Member of the national executive committee of the Conference of the deans and
      directors of Design.
  •  Representative of the Ministry of the University and Research in the executive board of the
      National Interuniversity Society for the Environmental Sciences.
  •  Member of the Boards of Veneto Innovazione, Treviso Tecnologia and Tecnologia e Design.
  •  In 1993 member of the international Commission for the establishment of an Industrial
      Design Program at the Hochschule fr Technik und Wirtschaft in Dresden (Germany).
  •  From 1995 to 2001 member of the Faculty of the PhD in Design at the Politecnico di Milano.
  •  Member of the Faculty and of the founding group of the PhD in Design Sciences at the
      Universit Iuav di Venezia.
  •  Member of the experts group for the evaluation of proposals submitted for financing to the
      European projects LIFE-ENvironment.
  •  Member of the experts group of the European Commission for the evaluation of proposals of
      the intergovernmental network COST Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical       Research.


Main research co-ordination activity:
  •  Coordinator of the group which carried out the "Feasibility Study for the Realization of a
      Research and Service Center on LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)"(carried out with a
      contribution of DGXI "Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection" of the
      European Commission),1995.
  •  Coordinator of the group which carried out for ANPA (Italian National Environmental
      Protection Agency) the first Italian public data-base on LCA, 1997-1999.
  •  Coordinator of the group which carried out for ANPA (Italian National Environmental
      Protection Agency) a project of "Green Public Procurement for the Italian
      Public Administrations, 1998-2001.
  •  National responsible of the CNR (National Research Center) research program about
      the design of prosthesis and equipment for disables golf players
      (code CNRC005498_001) program CNR-Agenzia 2000.
  •  National responsible of the project FIRB 2001 "Sport as a tool of physical and
      socio-psychological education/rehabiltation. Code number: RBAU017WC5.
  •  Coordinator of the research unit of the Universit Iuav di Venezia in the project
      "Made in Italy for China. Design of sustainable products for the internationalisation
      of the Italian companies" supported by the Italian Ministry of the University.
  •  Coordinator of the research line about "Design, nanotechnologies and product innovation"
      of the PhD in Design Sciences, from 2006.


Main publications:
  •  Ambiente: gestione e strategia, Feltrinelli, Milano 1989.
  •  Environmental labelling: some methodological issues, in "Global Environmental Labelling",
      Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Aegean e UNEP/IEO Cleaner
      Production Programme, 1993.
  •  La mediacin ambiental in AA.VV., Elementos de politica ambiental, edited by the Camara
      de Diputados, Provincia de Buenos Aires, 1993.
  •  Einfachheit und/oder Komplexitt in der Umweltgestaltung, in International Design Forum
       Ulm, Das Einfache, Anabas Verlag 1995.
  •  Produkte, Kommunikation, Gestaltung, "Standpunkte 5 (1997).
  •  Environmental design and industrial design: integrating knowledge around urgent issues,
      "Design Issues, XIV:3 (Autumn 1998).
  •  Cultura sociale del prodotto. Nuove frontiere per il disegno industriale, Feltrinelli,
      Milano 1999 (Spanish Translation Cultura social del producto. Nuevas fronteras para
      el diseo industrial, Ediciones Infinito, Buenos Aires 1999).
  •  Dalla cura delle cose alla cura delle persone (editor), Silvana Editoriale, Milano 1999.
  •  Didaktik, Forschung und Produktgestaltung, in Cordula Meier (editor), Design Theorie.
      Beitrge zu einer Disziplin, Anabas, Frankfurt am Main 2001.
  •  Health Care Technologies: The contribution of Industrial Design, in Leopoldina Fortunati,
      James E. Katz e Raimonda Riccini (editors), Mediating the Human Body: Technology,
      Communication, and Fashion, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah (New Jersey) e
      London 2003.Le forme degli oggetti, in "Il Verri, L:27 (febbraio 2005).
  •  New design curricula for a changing artefact world, in Vijai Singh Katiyar e Shashank
      Mehta (a cura di), Design Education. Tradition and Modernity, NID, Ahmedabad 2007.



Main papers presented as invited speaker at national and international conferences and meetings:
  •  Lectures on "Strategies for an industrial sustainable development" and "Evolution of the
      packaging" at the seminar "Design, Product, Environmet" held in Curitiba (Brasil) and
      organized by Prefeitura Municipal de Curitiba, Instituto de Pesquisas e Planejamento
      Urbano de Curitiba (IPPUC), Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Paran (PUC PR),
      Centro de integrao de Tecnologia do Paran (CITPAR) (August 22 -25 1990).
  •  Seminar on "Industrial design as innovations factor for the industry held in Warsaw (Poland)
      and organized by RKW Rationalisierungs-Kuratorium der Deutschen Wirtschaft (Joint
      venture between German Federal Government and German Industry)
      (November 22nd 1994).
  •  International Conference on Greener Public Purchasing held in Biel-Bienne (Switzerland)
      and organized by OECD (February 24 - 26 1997).
  •  Lecture on "Environment and products in the "Workshop on industrial design for
      environmental-friendly technology at the "Sino-Italian Industrial Design Week organized
      by the Italian Istituto per il Commercio Estero in Shangai (China) (October 17th-22nd 1999).
  •  Lecture on "The design of the operating rooms at the congress "Safety in the
      operating rooms:total quality and risks reduction organized by the Regions Lombardia,
      Piemonte and Liguria at the Politecnico di Milano (September 11th-12th).
  •  Lecture on Academia & Industry at IUAV Industrial Design program at Symposium
      "Academia & Industry organized by NACE Negev Academic College of
      Engineering di Beer Sheva (Israel) (3d March 2004).
  •  Lecture on Designausbildung in Italien at Bauhaus Dessau, organized by MAID Master of Art
      in Integrated Design of the Hochschule Anhalt (12th May 2004).
  •  Lecture on Industrial Design between education and innovation: the Faculty of Arts and
      Design in Venice at the "1st Italian-Israeli Design Forum organized by Shenkar College
      of Engineering and Design in Ramat-Gan (Israel) together with ADI Italian Association
      for Industrial Design; Italian Embassy in Israel; Italian Cultural Institute
      (20th May 2004).
  •  Lecture on New design curricula for a changing artefacts world in the section "Design
      Research and New Curriculum Development of the international congress "Design
      Education: Tradition and Modernity organized by the National Institute of Design,
      Ahmedabad (India). Co-chairman of the group preparing the final paper of the
      congress (2nd 4th March 2005).
  •  Member of the Organising Committee and invited speaker at the international congress
      "Best practice medical design for 2020. A scientist-practitioner dialogue,
      organized by The Samuel Neaman
      Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology of the Technion, Haifa (Israel)       (June 2007).