Silvia Barbero

Silvia Barbero, PhD. is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino (Italy) and chair of the Systemic Design Association since its foundation in 2018. She teaches the Systemic Design Master Degree since a.y. 2017-2018, “Product Environmental Requirements" at Design and Visual Communication degree since 2007 and “Systemic Design” at the doctoral course in Management, Production and Design. She co-founded the Eco-pack Observatory in 2005 and is responsible for the Stage&Job design curriculum at PoliTo.
She leads Systemic Design research in local economies, policy design, environmental production, innovation, through collaboration with companies, research centres, national and international networks. She was the scientific coordinator of RETRACE project (Interreg Europe I call) on the development of local and regional policies to move towards a circular economy, and other H2020 projects incl. proGIreg and Digicirc. She was also coordinator of regional project (PACK, POR-FESR 2007-2013), and team leader of international project (France, at Montauban, Spain, at Lea-Artibai, in Mexico, at Ahuacotzingo).