AI802 - PRODUCT INNOVATION

courses

ID:

AI802

Duration (hours):

80

CFU:

SSD:

DISEGNO INDUSTRIALE

Located in:

PESCARA

Url:

Course Details:

DESIGN/CORSO GENERICO Year: 3

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)

Course Objectives

At the end of the Product Innovation module, the student must know how:

To identify product-based innovation practices for business competitiveness;
To implement problem-finding actions, through problem posing (definition of the question), problem setting (structuring of knowledge), problem solving (implementation of solutions) and continuous orientation of the company to innovation;
To carry out a mature and responsible project activity within a multidisciplinary team-work;
To apply advanced design methodologies, strategies and techniques in the different application fields and productive sectors of product design.

Course Prerequisites

The Product Innovation module is part of the Laboratory A in Product Design. Therefore, the prerequisites indicated for the aforementioned Laboratory are valid.

Teaching Methods

The Product Innovation module is organized as follow:

Ex-cathedra lectures;
Individual seminars with evaluations;
Collective tutorials and one-to-one follow ups;
Possible meetings with companies.

Assessment Methods

Type of exam: Oral.
Learning assessment procedures: The Product Innovation module includes three assessments, with qualifying appraisals that will contribute to the formulation of the individual judgment at the end of the module:

1st: Blue sky research and design brief;
2nd: concept design;
3rd: concept development.

The individual assessment at the end of the module, formulated by the teacher, will be considered as the entry condition for the evaluation of the examination of Laboratory A of Product design.
Assessment: Final grade.

Texts

Ceschin, F. & Gaziulusoy, I. 2020. Design for Sustainability: A Multi-level Framework from Products to Socio-technical Systems. London: Routledge (OPEN ACCESS: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429456510/design-sustainability-fabrizio-ceschin-i%CC%87dil-gaziulusoy).
Holmes, K. 2018. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lewrick, M., Link, P. & Leifer, L. 2021. Gli strumenti per il Design Thinking: La guida alle migliori tecniche per facilitare l’innovazione. Milano: Edizioni LSWR.
Norman, D.A. 2011. Vivere con la complessità. Londra: Pearson.
Ulrich, K.T. & Eppinger, S.D. 2016. Product Design and Development. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

Innovation Design is the module belonging to the Design disciplinary sector characterizing the Product Design Studio A. The module is delivered in an integrated form with the ones of ‘Materials and production technologies’ and ‘Semiotics for design’.
Specifically, the module proposes the first approach to design of innovative products having both inclusive and sustainable qualities, engaging students in the development of a new generation of innovative products that are sustainable and inclusive, which ultimately intercept new innovation trajectories, and are therefore original in terms of typology, morphology, functionality, also through the use of innovative materials.

Course Language

Italiano

More information

The module is taught in the second semester.
Attendance is optional, but strongly recommended.
For information about the classroom and course timetable, please refer to the calendar.
The schedule of lessons, the didactic activities and the timetable for student reception are provided at the beginning of the module.