On Tuesday, Oct. 24, at the Mirafiori campus of the Polytechnic University of Turin, Andrea Filippi, a founding member of Design Gang Network, gave a lecture intended for students in the 3rd year of the Bachelor's Degree in Design and Visual Communication, Exploring Design Laboratory. This year the theme of the course is FIRE, food for thought to identify possible themes of work, develop briefs and projects even far apart.

Introduced by Professor Claudia De Giorgi of the DAD Department of Architecture and Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Andrea Filippi, starting with the theme of Fire, shared the design experiences of the Design Gang studio and those gained as director of the design department of Filo Design, based in Yongkang, China. Among his various experiences, he focused on the area of cookware design: the design method, materials, and technologies.

During the talk, the focus was on Advanced Design by showing students his most innovative projects on industrial kitchen products. The usefulness of Advanced Design allows products to be rethought with total freedom. Projects are approached with a creative process that reverses the normal methodology; the goal is to create new problems, which is the creative act par excellence for generating innovative solutions. The most difficult part of this process is to create intelligent problems that give rise to new solutions, with the goal of finding ones that are sustainable and therefore suitable for industrial production.