Theme: Overcrowded

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

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Italy

Teatro delle Biglie

Student association

Teatro delle Biglie is a student association of cultural volunteering organizing theater courses, but not only, with the contribution of Politecnico di Milano.

Urbanscope

Research laboratory, Politecnico di Milano

Cities are not mere physical and organizational devices: they are informational landscapes where places are shaped more by the streams of contents and less by the traditional physical evidences. Two layers coexist: a thick and dynamic layer of digital traces – the informational membrane – grows everyday on top of the material layer of the territory, the buildings and the infrastructures. The observation, the analysis and the representation of these two layers combined provides valuable insights on how the city is used and lived. Urbanscope is a research laboratory where collection, organization, analysis, and visualization of cross domain geo-referenced data are experimented. The research team is based at Politecnico di Milano and encompasses researchers with competencies in Computing Engineering, Communication and Information Design, Management Engineering, and Mathematics. The aim of Urbanscope is to systematically produce compelling views on urban systems to foster understanding and decision making. Views are like new lenses: they are designed to support the recognition of specific patterns thus enabling new perspectives. The current research activity is focused on Milano and data coming from the use of social media within the urban context.

Alessandro Balducci

Professor of Planning and Urban Policies, Politecnico di Milano

Alessandro Balducci, Ms in Architecture and PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, is Full professor of Planning and Urban Policies at the Politecnico di Milano. Has been Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning of the City of Milan, Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano, director of the PhD program in Spatial Planning and Urban Development, President of AESOP, founding member of EURA, and chair of the Italian Society of Urbanists (SIU). Among the last publications he has co-edited with Louis Albrechts and Jean Hillier Situated practices of Strategic Planning: an International Perspective Routledge 2017.

Augusto Sarti

Sound analysis, processing and synthesis professor, Politecnico di Milano

Augusto Sarti earned his Ph.D. in information engineering from the University of Padova, with joint graduate program with the University of California, Berkeley. In 1993, he joined the Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, and in 2013 he also joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis. His research interests are in the area of multimedia signal processing, with particular focus on sound analysis, processing and synthesis; space-time audio processing; and music information processing and retrieval. He coauthored over 250 scientific publications on international journals and congresses as well as numerous patents in the multimedia signal processing area. He coordinates the activities of the Musical Acoustics Lab and of the Sound and Music Computing Lab of the Politecnico di Milano. He promoted/coordinated and contributed to numerous (over 25) European projects

Beppe Severgnini

Journalist

Beppe Severgnini is the editor-in-chief of 7, the Corriere della Sera’s magazine, and he is the author of 16 books. He became a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times in 2013. His writing has appeared in Time magazine, The Financial Times and The Economist, where he was Italy correspondent from 1996 to 2003. He teaches at the School of Journalism of the University of Milan, and has been a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Isaiah Berlin visiting scholar at Oxford University.

Gabriella Pravettoni

Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Università Statale di Milano

GABRIELLA PRAVETTONI has an MS in Experimental Psychology, a Degree in clinical psychology and a PhD in Cognitive Science. She is Full Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Department of Health Sciences, and member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Decision Making Processes (IRIDe) at University of Milan. She is Deputy Director of the Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology and President of the Course of Decision Making at the University of Milan. She is Director of the Applied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science and Director of Anti-Smoking Centre, at the European Institute of Oncology (IEO) in Milan. Gabriella Pravettoni is also Professor of Psychology of Decision Making at European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM) in Milan, and Visiting Professor at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College of London. Gabriella Pravettoni trains Italian physicians and health insurance brokers in decision making and understanding of errors, risks and uncertainties.

Massimo Tavoni

Professor at the School of Management, Politecnico di Milano

Massimo Tavoni, is associate professor at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, and coordinator of the Climate Change Mitigation programme at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. He has been fellow at the Center for Advanced Studied in Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, and post doctoral fellow at Princeton University. His research is about climate change mitigation policies, and has appeared in major scientific journals. He was a lead author of the 5th assessment report of the IPCC, co-directs of the International Energy Workshop and is deputy editor for the journal ‘Climatic Change’. He is the recipient of a grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Michèle Lavagna

Space Mission Design professor, Politecnico di Milano

Michèle Lavagna is enrolled as Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano – Aerospace Science & Technology Dept – since 2011. She got her PhD in Aerospace Engineering at POlitecnico di Milano in 2001. She chaired the M.Sc. in Space Engineering course of orbital mechanics from 2005 to 2016. She chairs the M.Sc. Space Mission Design course since 2005. She’s been involved as technical engineer and as project manager in 30 international either research or commercial studies founded by ESA, ASI and EC and as a partner of many national and international space business companies. Her scientific research areas involve space engineering and astrodynamics with focus on space debris removal and space exploration. She’s author of 200 scientific papers and advisor for 108 Master theses and 20 PhD theses. She’s member of IAA, member of the ESA Prospect User Group, Member of the Asteroids and minor bodies WG-ASI, member of the Astrodynamics IAF-IAC committee, member of the scientific committee of the PoliMi-Aerospace Engineering Dept., member of the PhD course committee at DAER-PoliMi.

Roberto Verganti

Professor of Leadership and Innovation, Politecnico di Milano

Roberto Verganti is Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano, where he directs Leadin’Lab, the laboratory on the LEAdership, Design and INnovation. Roberto’s research is inspired by one question: how to create innovation that is meaningful, and how to make it come true? He has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School twice, at the Copenhagen Business School and at the California Polytechnic University. He is also an advisor of Carlos Moedas, the European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation. Roberto is the author of “OVERCROWDED – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas”, published in 2017 by MIT Press.

Stefano Corsi

Researcher in Agricultural Economics, Università Statale di Milano

Stefano Corsi, is a researcher in Agricultural Economics at the Milan State University, Department of Agricultural and and Environmental Science. His research interests deal with the analysis of urban and periurban agriculture, farmers and consumers participation in local and short food chains, land use and resilience, vulnerability and environmental conflicts. Furthermore he has been involved in several research and teaching projects in developing countries (Sierra Leone, Ghana, Chad, Dominica Republic, etc.) concerning food chains, food security, fair trade, collective actions, land tenure and market access. He is lecturer of Rural appraisal, Territorial marketing, Food security and rural development, Project assessment.