Pier Paolo Peruccio

Full Professor
Department of Architecture and Design (DAD)

  • Member of Interdepartmental Center FULL - Future Urban Legacy Lab

Profile

Research interests

Design for sustainability
Metodologia della ricerca storica
Storia del design

Biography

Architect, PhD in History of Contemporary Architecture and Town-Planning. He is Full Professor of Design at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) where he teaches Design History, Systemic Thinking and Theory and History of Systemic Design. Director of the SYDERE (Systemic Design Research and Education) Center at Politecnico di Torino. The center acts as a multidisciplinary platform. It gathers experts from different fields to generate interdisciplinary break-through in systemic design research and education www.sydere.polito.it Member of the Board of Directors of several organizations: - ICSID/WDO (World Design Organization) based in Montreal (Canada), - SID (Italian Scientific Society of Design) at IUAV, Venice (Italy). - PLART Foundation, Napoli (Italy) - Aurelio Peccei Foundation, Rome (Italy) - Laboratory of Sustainability and Circular Economy at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (Italy). Visiting Professors at Tongji University, Shanghai (China), University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA), ECAM Lyon (France), Catholica de Pereira (Colombia). He has taught courses and workshops in Europe, USA, Latin America and Asia. He is author of more than 150 articles and books on industrial and visual design. He is currently on the editorial board of high ranked journals including MD Journal and Agathon. He is the curator of several exhibitions, among them - Design Piemonte, Seoul (South Korea), 2005 - "Olivetti Makes" at Palacio de Bellas Artes from 11/10/18 to 13/01/19, Ciudad de Mexico. He is currently working on several research projects concerning history of sustainable design, systems thinking and innovation in design education. Recently the research focus has shifted from the study of the origins of Italian design to a broader investigation that looks at the project in its many dimensions and at the methodologies and tools to innovate design training from a systemic perspective.

Scientific branch

ICAR/13 - DESIGN
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)

Research topics

  • Design History
  • Systemic Design

Skills

ERC sectors

LS8_1 - Ecosystem and community ecology, macroecology
SH6_1 - Historiography, theory and methods in history, including the analysis of digital data
SH5_6 - History of art and architecture, arts-based research

SDG

Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
Goal 12: Responsible consumption and production

Fellowships

Non-commercial collaboration agreements

Teaching

Collegi of the PhD programmes

  • DESIGN E TECNOLOGIA. PERSONE, AMBIENTE, SISTEMI, 2022/2023 (39. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2021/2022 (38. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2020/2021 (37. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2019/2020 (36. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2018/2019 (35. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2017/2018 (34. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2016/2017 (33. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN, 2015/2016 (32. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2011/2012 (28. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2010/2011 (27. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2009/2010 (26. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
  • SISTEMI DI PRODUZIONE & DESIGN INDUSTRIALE, 2008/2009 (25. ciclo)
    Politecnico di TORINO
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Collegi of the degree programmes

Teachings

PhD

  • Design studies. A.A. 2021/22, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Main teacher
  • Design studies. A.A. 2020/21, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Main teacher
  • Design studies. A.A. 2019/20, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Main teacher
  • Design studies. A.A. 2018/19, GESTIONE, PRODUZIONE E DESIGN. Main teacher
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Master of Science

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Bachelor of Science

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Research

Research fields

Research projects

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Supervised PhD students

Publications

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