PhD in Design, Arts and Transdisciplinarity
Turin
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Phd
Language
Italian, English
Start date
January 2026
Frequency
Full time
Fruition
On campus
Duration
3 Years
Credits
180
The PhD is aimed at researchers who want to deal with the complexity of ongoing transitions to design positive changes and imagine more equitable, supportive and sustainable futures starting from a post disciplinary perspective, open to hybridizations between knowledge and the experimentation of new and unexpected connections.
The PhD programme aims to investigate new interpretative paradigms of Design and the Arts, and their roles, in a fluid, rapidly evolving context, through the experimentation of systemic research methodologies, based on multiple connections and hybridizations, the sublimation of linear disciplinary approaches, in favour of relational and critical, abductive and transdisciplinary readings, which look not only at applications, but also at the implications and impacts of design and creative action.
In this scenario, Design and Art stand as a transformative platform capable of enabling the interconnection between different forms of knowledge, the relationships between different forms of intelligence (human, non-human, other-than-human) and multiple application possibilities, generated by the intersection between design, art, technologies, sciences (human, social, environmental, economic), in a reference value framework based on principles of equity, inclusiveness, responsibility, sustainability and solidarity.
An open and collaborative research environment, an ecosystem in which experiment new hybrid, generative and regenerative methodologies, and apply emerging technologies consciously and responsibly, with a critical, ethical and non-conformist outlook, to go beyond conventional approaches and orient research action towards the common good, care for the planet and shared resources.
The research fields concern the following thematic areas:
- Collective intelligence and Human - non human creativity
- Design, Arts and the creative industries in new socio-economic circular environments
- Cultural Heritage through digital and phygital technologies
- Smart technologies and bio-materials: unconventional and circular application
- Data design and information ecology: awareness and knowledge
- Decolonization, commoning and social good in design and art practices
PhD Programme Committee
Final admission ranking for the PhD programme – Academic Year 25/26
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