MICHELE MELAZZINI

Michele Melazzini is PhD candidate, design researcher and lecturer at Politecnico di Milano at Design Department (Creative Industries Lab). The PhD research activity focus on the role of design in the organization, the design interventions in affecting the organizational culture. With a background on product and strategic design, Michele built his experience on applying and developing design practices that can support change management and innovation process. He collaborates at international research projects (Horizon 2020, Interreg, Erasmus+) that deal with topic as Creative Industries, design thinking process applied to SMEs and Entrepreneurship. Michele in the last years teaches at the Politecnico Design School and at POLI.Design Consortium. He has been working as consultant and designer for Panasonic, Berkel S.p.a., Fantoni Group S.p.a, and Veneta Cucine S.p.a. Michele has started to learn and discover the “soul” of the design during a long collaboration with Fondazione Achille Castiglioni.