Associate Professor
SDI Agency, Politecnico di Milano
Milano, Italy
Stefano Maffei, Ph. D. in Industrial Design is as Associate Professor at the Industrial Design Faculty of Politecnico di Milano. His current research and work interests are: strategic design, service design, theory of innovation, design driven innovation in local productive systems, activity system design, design for local development, ethnographic research methods, action research methods. He had recently coordinated a national research about academic design research activities in Italy called Design, Research, Italy. Maps, visions and perspectives of academic design research in Italy. 2003-2007 (see http://www.sistemadesignitalia.it/drm/).