4. PoliMi - PoliTo
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro
Politecnico di Milano Politecnico di Torino
PoliMi and PoliTo are the largest and oldest technical universities in
Italy.
Altogether, they award each year
• about 25% of the Engineering BSc’s and
• about 40% of the Architecture and Design BSc’s in Italy.
They are located in Lombardia and Piemonte, two close Italian regions
among the most advanced and industrialized in Europe.
5. The five w’s of ASP
• WHEN -- Established in 2004, two-year study
cycles, 7th cycle starting in 2011
• WHERE -- PoliMi and PoliTo in joint venture
(an asset of the MI-TO framework)
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Giovanni Di Gennaro
• WHAT-- Additional parallel track to master
studies
• WHO -- Selects 150 talented students per year,
among the applicants to the master programs in
Architecture, Design and Engineering
• WHY-- Emphasize horizontal skills,
management of complexity, working in teams
6. ASP student selection
From abroad From
From
(~ 25%) PoliMi+PoliTo
rest of Italy
BSc
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro
Internationalization Invitation CALL
Services (top 5-10%)
MOTIVATION letter + interview
7. Admission Process, 2007-2010
ADMITTED FOREIGN
APPLICATIONS STUDENTS STUDENT
TOTAL FOREIGN
CYCLE MILANO TORINO MILANO TORINO MILANO TORINO STUDENTS
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Giovanni Di Gennaro
IV (2007) 174 110 83 57 18 8 26
V (2008) 251 230 90 60 28 11 39
VI (2009) 293 200 90 59 22 13 35
VII (2010) 240 255 90 59 26 8 34
8. Where do ASP students come from?
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro
9. Where do foreign
ASP students come from?
4th cycle (26)
1 1 EU
6 OTHER EU
AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
11 ASIA
Dottor 3 AMERICA C/S
Giovanni Di Gennaro 1
3 USA
5th cycle (39)
1 5 EU
OTHER EU
16 8 AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
1 AMERICA C/S
3 USA
5
10. Where do foreign
ASP students come from?
6th cycle (35)
2 2 EU
9 9 OTHER EU
AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
Dottor 1 AMERICA C/S
Giovanni Di Gennaro 3
9 USA
7th cycle (34)
2 2 EU
OTHER EU
11 11 AFRICA
c
MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
AMERICA C/S
5 2 1
USA
11. Where do foreign
ASP students come from?
All cycles (134)
6 10
Dottor EU
Giovanni Di Gennaro
34 OTHER EU
47
AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
AMERICA C/S
6
USA
9
22
12. ASP student benefits
A multicultural community of students and professors
Financial support:
• tuition fee waivers for the ASP program,
Dottor • free travel and accommodation during ASP courses,
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• budget for developing the ASP Multidisciplinary Projects
Scholarships covering accommodation for international
students
Double MSc degree from both PoliMi and PoliTo
ASP Diploma
Specific placement program
ASP Alumni
13. ASP Community
Distribution of ASP Students based upon their School in the 7 Cycles (2004-2011)
100%
26 24 24
34 36 31
37
9 13
80% 16
12
Dottor 12 13 18 9
Giovanni Di Gennaro 4 13 5 Ict Eng
9 5 3
25 19 Industrial
60% 35 23
24 34 29 Other Eng
34 Management
40% 35 Civil + Env Eng.
24 43
26 39 28 Design
11
12 11 Architecture
11 12
20% 6 9
31 32 38
26 22 21 23
0%
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
14. ASP Student Quality (2008-09)
28,9
28,8
28,7
28,6
28,5
Average BSc mark of
28,4
28,3
Italian ASP students
28,2
28,1
>28.5/30
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28
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1 2 3 4 5 6 (PoliTo/PoliMi
average ~ 25.4/30)
100%
Average fraction of Italian 95%
ASP students with 110 or 90%
85%
110L BSc degree ~ 87% 80%
(PoliTo/PoliMi average 75%
~ 14%) 1 2 3 4 5 6
15. Cultural Project
• Supporting students in designing solutions to complex
problems, coping with dynamic environments which
require:
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• cognitive capacities and aptitude to learning
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• capacity to manage organizational processes
• awareness of the interests and the interactions that
take place within the specific context
• flexibility in adapting to the cognitive processes used
during the design process
• talent for interpersonal relations
16. Education paths at PoliMi - PoliTo
Ordinary track
Excellence track
PhD
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro
MSc ASP
BSc ASP Competition
17. ASP Programme
Spring Year 1 OPENING
Dottor
Courses
Giovanni Di Gennaro
Projects
Papers Report
Winter Year 2
GRADUATION
18. Course Objectives
• Building the foundations of a critical approach to
the main facets of complex, interdisciplinary design
Dottor • Understanding the implications of innovative design
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in terms of sustainability, socio-economic impact,
strategies to successful entrepreneurship
• Raising the interests of students from all Lauree
Magistrali.
19. Course Contents (7th Cycle)
Innovation and its impact on society
1. Innovations: Why and for 2. Design for Social Innovation
whom? (Prof. Ezio Manzini)
(Prof. Massimiano Bucchi,
Dottor
Prof. Costanzo Ranci)
Giovanni Di Gennaro • To introduce the problems of
innovation in a social and economic
• To interpret the socio-technical context
context in which innovation • To discuss the relevance of
takes place and develops user involvement in the design
• To understand how values and process
normative cultures shape and • To discuss design thinking and
guide innovation and technical creativity for innovation
design
20. Course Contents (7th Cycle)
Actors and decisions in complex projects
3. Management of innovation 4. Decision making
Dottor
(Prof. Mario Calderini)
Giovanni Di Gennaro (Prof. Giovanni Azzone,
Prof. Bruno Dente)
• To develop the capacity to
perform strategic analysis and • To teach a theoretical framework
project management and the analytical instruments to
• To develop skills and experience in design and manage the decision
group work, and external making processes involved in the
communication capacities realisation of complex projects in
the public and private sphere
21. Course Contents (7th Cycle)
Aspects of complex systems design
5. Global change and sustainability 6. The logics of modeling /
(Prof. Marino Gatto) the dynamics of creativity
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro (preliminary program)
• To introduce the students to the
problems of global change
• To illustrate how to face and
• To outline the possible policies
successfully deal with complex
and technical advancements
design problems through their
that could shape sustainability paths
modeling using a systemic
• To make the students understand
approach
their social commitment to bring
• To illustrate the role and
the ideas of social, economic and
stimulate the use of creativity in
environmental sustainability into
technological design
their professional life
22. Course Contents (6th Cycle)
Aspects of complex systems design
5. The art of modeling 6. The dynamics of creativity/
(Prof. Sergio Rinaldi) (Prof. Agata Spaziante,
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro preliminary program)
• To illustrate how to face and
successfully deal with complex
• To discuss and criticize how a
design problems through their
situation of economic crisis can
modeling using a systemic
stimulate the development of
approach
new lifestyle models and the
impact of such models on urban
design and architecture
23. Feedback from Students (2010)
10
8
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro 6
4
2
0
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
Overall, how would you rate the course contents?
(answer in a scale from 1 to 10, courses randomized)
24. ASP Projects
ASP projects enable concrete experimental activity on broad and
relevant themes and problems. They are:
• system-level
• interdisciplinary
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• focused on:
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- problem-setting within a complex situation
- innovation (i.e. bridging technology with its applications)
- conceptual design and feasibility analysis
• require both:
- disciplinary knowledge (coming from the Laurea Magistrale
background of each student)
- interdisciplinary knowledge (coming from ASP courses)
• they are different from a Laurea Magistrale thesis.
.
25. Contents of the ASP Projects
(5 cycles, 2004-2009)
FOCUS OF COMPLETED PROJECTS
Sustainable development of architectural,
cultural and environmental assets 14
Social inclusion and systems for health,
security and quality of life 9
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24% Hi-tech development & net economy 17
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31% Energy, mobility and the environment. 18
Sustainable development of architectural,
cultural and environmental assets
Social inclusion and systems for health,
security and quality of life
16%
Hi-tech development & net economy
Energy, mobility and the environment.
29%
26. Examples of Contents of
ASP Projects
FOCUS OF COMPLETED PROJECTS
Sustainable development of architectural, MUFFA
cultural and environmental assets Multifunctional future for agriculture
Home Emergency
A polycentric model of places of hospitality
Social inclusion and systems for health,
Dottor Will Chair
security and quality of life
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Reinventing wheels into will
Genoma
GEnetic New Opportunities for Medical Applications
Hi-tech development & net economy WOMan
Windows On Man
FAS.P.ONSITE
Fashion Production on site
Energy, mobility and the environment EnerCity
Sustainability design of micro-scale urban area
SmartCopter
Sensor-vision-enabled autonomous robotic helicopter
for civil applications in urban environments
28. ASP timeline
1st cycle 2nd cycle
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro
ASP COURSES
ASP PROJECT
MSc PROGRAMME
29. ASP Student Placement
2009 Poll (1st + 2nd + 3rd cycles)
First employment Current employment status
120,00%
100,00% 100,00%
94,48%
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Giovanni Di Gennaro
88,34% 0,35%
80,00% 24,73%
73,01%
60,00%
55,21%
1,41%
40,00%
36,20%
73,14%
0,35%
20,00% Employed
Unemployed, looking for occupation
0,00% Looking for 1st occupation
Just after After 1 month After 2 months After 3 or 4 After 5 or 6 After 7 months Student (PhD, etc.)
graduation months months or more
Not student nor employed
Source: PoliMi surveys
30. ASP Student Placement
2009 Poll (1st + 2nd + 3rd cycles)
Professional role
1,17% 0,58%
14,04%
Executive, manager
Researcher
11,70%
Employment field High/medium qualification technician
High/medium qualification employee
23,67% Executive role
25,00% 53,80%
21,74% Manifacturing industry Other
18,71%
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20,00% Electronics, informatics and
Giovanni Di Gennaro telecommunications
15,46%
14,49% Banking and finance
15,00%
10,63% Construction and furnishing
10,00% 7,73% Type of contracts
Consulting and outsourcing
5,80%
5,00% Personal services
0,48% 11,24%
Public administration
0,00%
Manifacturing Construction and Public administration Other
industry furnishing
Permanent and full time contract
20,12% Permanent and part time contract
Internship
Apprenticeship
Fixed term contract
60,95%
Other contract
2,37%
4,14%
1,18%
Source: PoliMi surveys
32. Companies Participating
to Projects, 2007-2009
Accenture, Agenzia Milanese Mobilità e Ambiente, AIPO - Agenzia Interregionale per il
fiume Po, Alcatel Lucent, Amet, Associazione Nazionale di Salvamento, Assolombarda,
Autorità di Bacino del fiume Po, Avio, Barilla Group, Camera di Commercio di Torino,
Carlo Gavazzi Space, Cefriel, Comune di Gaeta, Comune di Ivrea, Comune di Milano,
Comune di Pantelleria, Consorzio per gli insediamenti produttivi del Canavese, CSI –
Piemonte, DigiSky, Ecole Nazionale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon, Edison Spa, Enel,
Dottor
Giovanni Di Gennaro
Eni, Ente Parco fluviale del Po tratto torinese, F38F, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti,
Fondazione Casa della Carità, Fondazione Hermann Hesse, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto
Nazionale dei Tumori, Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Fondazione San
Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Fumagalli, G Studio, IBM Italia, IEDO, Indesit Company,
Infosolution, Ingenia, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, ISMB - Istituto Superiore Mario
Boella, ITG - International Technology Group, Lutech, Modigliani Institut, Multiplicity, One
Works, Pathways to Housing, Procter&Gamble, Provincia di Torino, Radio Televisione
Italiana, Regione Piemonte, Reply, Selex Communications, Shanghai Forever Bicycle Co.,
Shima Seiki Italia, Sim-patia, SlowFood, Softeco Sismat, Solvay Solexis, Soprintendenza del
Mare per la Regione Sicilia, Stanford University, Studio Harrauer, Studio Sarin, TekTao
Urban design, Telecom Italia, Teuco Guzzini, Thales Alenia Space, The MathWorks, TRE -
Tozzi Renewable Energy, TTW, Tulton, Unesco, Università di Udine, University of
California Los Angeles, University of Massachusetts, University of Queensland, Vibram
33. ALUMNI Association
• Created officially in June 2007
• Mission: facilitate networking among ASP Alumni, support the
Dottor
professional and personal development of ASP Alumni, enhance ASP
visibility
Giovanni Di Gennaro
• Activities
• Alumni Days/Events (2/year)
• Newsletter
• Placement poll
• Tutoring
• Many other opportunities of interaction with ASP students
