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Education and training

2018-2022: PhD program in Design, Politecnico di Milano
2013-2016: Double degree program:
                    Master's degree in Design & Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
                    Mastère Spécialisé in Applied Mechanics, École Centrale de Nantes
2010-2013: Bachelor's degree in Industrial Product Design, Politecnico di Milano

Previous academic positions

2022-2023: Adjunct professor, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano
2022: Research fellow, Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano (prof. B. Del Curto)

Awards and Honors

2022: SID Research Award, Italian Design Society

Research Activities

Flavia Papile research activity is mainly focused on material selection processes for sustainable production transition. The material selection process affects design decisions in the very early beginning of product development. The use of a specific material instead of others implies consequences at every level of the production flow, until ethical and ecological level. A proper material selection activity is not simple to manage in industrial contexts, due to the high number of variables affecting the decision making, but crucial to a paradigmatic change in producing goods.

As collateral research activity stream, the development of innovative bio-materials (biobased and “grown”) is currently undergoing.

Selected Publications

• Papile, F., Sossini, L., Marinelli, A., & Del Curto, B. (2022). Emerging Material Research Trends: Fostering Critical Material Research in Design Students. Proceedings of the Design Society,2, 2353-2362. doi:10.1017/pds.2022.238
• Papile, F., Del Curto, B., & Coccia, A. (2021). MATERIAL SELECTION AS COOPERATIVE PROCESS: A FRAMEWORK PROPOSAL FOR A CHANGING ECONOMY. Proceedings of the Design Society,1, 2017-2026. doi:10.1017/pds.2021.463
• Papile, F., Bolzan, P., Stefano, P., & Pollini, B. (2021). PERCEIVING GROWN BACTERIAL CELLULOSE: an aesthetic and sensorial evaluation of a biofabricated material. In Senses & Sensibility'21: Designing Next Genera (c) tions. Proceedings of the UNIDCOM/IADE 11th International Conference. (pp. 2-12). IADE Press
• Papile, Flavia, Del Curto, Barbara and Coccia, Andrea (2020) System thinking & synthesis mapping to manage product material selection process. In: Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 Symposium., 9-17 Oct 2020, Ahmedabad, India
• Papile, F., Coccia, A., & Del Curto, B. (2020). Designer Pollinator: a case study. DIID. DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, 72, 136-143

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