Carmen Bruno

Ph.D. in Design. Post-doc design researcher at Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on investigating the new opportunities for creative empowerment opened by digital technologies, developing methods to enhance the human factors of creativity within the design process. Since 2016, she investigates how digital technologies are influencing and augmenting the cognitive, motivational, and social dimensions of the creative design process, identifying new stimuli and technological tools that support designers and non-designers in expressing their creative potential. In her work, she merges a human-centred perspective, design thinking and co-design methodologies to facilitate radical innovation. She is a design researcher and operational manager at IDEActivity Center, whose main research aim is to develop creativity-driven methodologies to strengthen innovation processes in different field of application. In IDEActivity she took part as researcher in EU project H2020 “Digital Do-It-Yourself” and as Project Manager in the Erasmus+ “Digital Creativity for developing Digital Maturity future skills”, developing methods to transfer a strategic and design approach to the application of digital technologies. She also collaborated on national projects and with relevant companies for designing and facilitating collaborative workshops for innovation development. She is author of the book “Creativity in the Design Process” edited by Springer and co-author of many articles, scientific papers and publications on books and magazines. She is professor and Design Thinking trainer at the School of Design, Ph.D School and Poli.Design at Politecnico di Milano.