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Neighborhood networks for the recovery, distribution and upgrading of food surplus

Posted on by Erik Franco

The pandemic has put many citizens in difficulty: now they need concrete help in order to be able to do grocery shopping.

The SOSpesa project aims to create a neighborhood network, made up of local actors, in charge of mapping food flows, recovering and transforming food surplus and, finally, offering it to disadvantaged people at controlled prices.

The network is based in the NoLo neighborhood in Milan, where the initiative “SpesaSospesa a Nolo” has already been put into practice. Starting from this experience, the SOSpesa project will study and develop a functioning model at local level for the recovery, distribution and upgrading of food surplus, identifying innovative solutions and defining which technological innovations can support the system.

The departments of Design, Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Electronics, Information and Bioengineering are involved in the project, together with many partners: Municipality of Milan, Food Policy Office; P.I.Nolo; MEMO54; RECUP; Casa Nolo; Qubì Loreto network (funded by Cariplo Foundation); “La terra che non c’è” project (funded by Fondazione Comunità); Gorillas (online supermarket).

SOSpesa is a 2021 Polisocial Award winning project. Polisocial Award is the initiative that supports high social impact research at the Politecnico di Milano thanks to the funds from the 5×1000 donations (a fraction of the personal income tax each Italian citizen can donate to support a non-profit organisation). The 2021 edition was dedicated to the theme “Equity and Recovery”.

THE PROJECT TEAM

  • Davide Fassi, Department of Design (principal investigator)
  • Giulia Bartezzaghi, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (project manager)
  • Anna Meroni, Department of Design
  • Francesco Vergani, Department of Design
  • Paola Garrone, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  • Annalaura Silvestro, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  • Maurizio Magarini, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering
  • Davide Scazzoli, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Efficient energy management for healthcare and community facilities in sub-saharan africa

Posted on by Erik Franco

The Covid-19 health emergency has contributed to exacerbate imbalances and marginality and to make concrete the risk of an increase in internal disparities between countries.

The RESTARTHealth project (Renewable Energy Systems To Activate Recovery Through the Health Sector) will act in a vulnerable area, the sub-Saharan Africa, in order to strengthen health infrastructures and related community services by studying efficient energy management for hybrid microgrids. The goal is to ensure a more reliable and appropriate energy system, promoting related business development and local entrepreneurship.

The projects involves the departments of Energy, Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Testing and demonstrations will be held in the St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor and in three health centers in the Gulu District, in Uganda, and will allow establishing general guidelines.

RESTARTHealth is one of the high social impact projects awarded in the 2021 edition of Polisocial Award, dedicated to the theme “Equity and Recovery”: the winning projects are financed by funds from the 5×1000 donations (a fraction of the personal income tax each Italian citizen can donate to support a non-profit organisation).

THE PROJECT TEAM

Marco Merlo, Department of Energy (principal investigator)
Riccardo Mereu, Department of Energy (project manager)
Irene Bengo, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Veronica Chiodo, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
Marco Mauri, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Equity and quality for childhood. Guidelines for an integrated 0-6 years support system

Posted on by Erik Franco

EQUI_06 is a multidisciplinary project involving the Departments of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU), Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG) and Design of the Politecnico di Milano. It aims at defining guidelines and general rules for the creation of integrated preschool service hubs in urban areas facing educational poverty.

Following an in-depth pilot study of needs and resources relating to early childhood (0-6 years), the project aims to promote principles of equity and quality.

Defining guidelines and general rules for the creation of integrated preschool service hubs, following an in-depth pilot study of needs and resources relating to early childhood (0-6 years).

THE PROJECT TEAM

  • Stefania Sabatinelli, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (principal investigator)
  • Marta Cordini, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (project manager)
  • Carolina Pacchi, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
  • Cristina Renzoni, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
  • Paola Savoldi, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
  • Marta Cannistrà, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  • Mara Soncin, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  • Filippo Bolzoni, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering
  • Ambra Borin, Department of Design
  • Luisa Collina, Department of Design
  • Laura Galluzzo, Department of Design
  • Claudia Mastrantoni, Department of Design

EQUI_06 is one of the high social impact projects awarded in the 2021 edition of Polisocial Award, dedicated to the theme “Equity and Recovery”: the winning projects are financed by funds from the 5×1000 donations (a fraction of the personal income tax each Italian citizen can donate to support a non-profit organisation).

BUDD-e: Blind-assistive aUtonomous Drive Device

Posted on by Erik Franco

COVID-19 pandemics and related politics have strongly impacted on people’s life and, even more dramatically, that of people with visual impairment – 4% of the planet population. This is due to the fact that blind and visual impaired (BVI) people need tactile contact with the environment and a guide for moving and orienteering.

The goal of the BUDD-e (Blind-assistive aUtonomous Drive Device) project is to make public spaces and services, such as shopping centers and cultural centers/museums, accessible, functional and usable by BVI persons.

The project will be divided into two sub-objectives:

  • design and realize a first prototype of the innovative autonomous robotic guide BUDD-e for blind and visually impaired (BVI) persons;
  • design accessible and inclusive public places and indoor environments where BUDD-e can take the role of a guide for BVI persons and permit the fruition of the offered services.

BUDD-e is one of the 5 high social impact research projects of the Politecnico di Milano selected via the last edition of the Polisocial Award to be financed by funds from the 5×1000 donations (a fraction of the personal income tax each Italian citizen can donate to support a non-profit organisation).

THE PROJECT TEAM
Marcello Farina, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (principal investigator)
Emanuele Lettieri, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (project manager)
Luca Bascetta, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering 
Matteo Corno, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering 
Manuela Galli, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering 
Giuseppe Andreoni, Department of Design
Paolo Perego, Department of Design
Andrea Rebecchi, Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering

BUDD-e project website

Andrea Brambilla and Erica Isa Mosca receive “Valutare Premia” award

Posted on by Erik Franco

Andrea Brambilla and Erica Isa Mosca were awarded first and second place in the third edition of “Valutare Premia”, the award given each year by the Lombardy Regional Council to young researchers who produce research with proposals of public benefit.

In his doctoral research, Andrea Brambilla developed and tested a multi-criteria evaluation tool for assessing quality and social, environmental and organisational sustainability in hospital health infrastructures. This user-friendly tool consists of indicators that are evidence-based, weighted and validated with international experts. The results of the research provide strategic indications that may be useful to hospital management and regional policy makers in making decisions for the  construction of safer and more sustainable hospitals and community health facilities.

In her PhD thesis, Erica Isa Mosca, developed and applied a performance assessment tool that, instead, enables measurement of social inclusion and accessibility of hospital facilities with objective and qualitative-quantitative indicators based on Inclusive Design and Universal Design. The final objective of the research is to support designers in developing environments that can guarantee the well-being of the greatest number of users.

Andrea and Erica, both born in 1992, after their PhD in Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, continue to carry out research as Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the Politecnico Design & Health Lab, coordinated by Professor Stefano Capolongo.

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