Marco Migliari

Marco Migliari is an architect who operates in industrial design. He is consultant for innovation, analyses the logic of development and the evolution of systems of objects and services aimed at the application in new products, especially in the sectors of design, materials and technology. He has organised workshops on product innovation in cooperation with Alessi, Fiat, Dupont, Landini, Philips, Piaggio, FederUnacoma. He has curated the innovation lab for FederUnacoma. He has created and participated in the founding of the permanent design observatory of ADI (Association for Industrial Design), that each year selects the best products to run for the Compasso d’oro prize, and puts them in the ADI Design Index. He has taught at ISIA in Rome, and he has contributed to the creation of the MA in System Design. He has also been professor at the IED (European Design Institute) both in Milan and in Rome, and at the Faculty of Design at Politecnico di Milano. Currently he is professor at the LABA academy in Brescia.

Strategies for sustainable living

The dynamic form of the Sustainability Pavilion at Expo Dubai, designed by Grimshaw Architects, has a prolific relationship with the place and...

Transparent wood is lighter and has better insulation capacities than glass

Sustainable development of biocomposites has been limited by the shortage of monomers with an organic base that could combine an organic process...

Farming on Mars

Planet Mars is considered the next place where humanity will set foot in the universe, up to the point that systems that...

Protecting vines from the climate

The current climate changes are also changing the timing of grape harvest. In 2020 in France grape harvest started two weeks earlier...

Artificial intelligence accelerates the development of new crop protection products

The launch of a new crop protection product is the climax of a long procedure that started around fifteen years before. When...

Fighting stink bugs with wasps

The Italian region of Emilia Romagna has started an experimentation for the biological pest control of the brown marmorated stink bug –...

Tailor made seeds for vertical farms

Tailor made seeds for vertical farms Bayer’s farming biotechnology department and Singapore’s Temasek fund have created a company that develops and sells new varieties of...

An analytic scrutiny of the Earth

The “Prisma” satellite, owned by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency) and built in cooperation with OHB Italia and Leonardo, is the first...

Algae can reduce the need of air conditioning in a building

GEPEA’s – engineering lab for bio-processes for the environment, energy, agro-food and sea in Nantes, France – BAM research group operates in the development...

New York City’s street tree-map

The most accurate mapping of trees in the world is that of New York City. It includes 687,000 trees belonging to 233 species that...