I. Durante (Ilaria)

Ilaria is a Postdoctoral Researcher exploring how practitioners can make more desirable futures through alternative future(s) making approaches. She highlights the relevance of an inter-organizational, forward-oriented, and engaged approach to future(s) making. She also explores and presents to practitioners the potential of design-driven imaginative approaches to future(s) making and future-making labs as alternative settings for imagining and shaping futures. She holds a Ph.D. in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

She has published on Creativity and Innovation Management Journal, Research-Technology Management and She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation. She has also experience as a teaching assistant in Design Thinking for Business at Politecnico di Milano and as Adjunct Faculty at POLIMI Graduate School of Management (GSOM).

Ilaria is currently further developing her research on desirable future making by contributing to the MISD project, which aims to develop modular, integrated, and sustainable datacenters. In particular, she studies how organizational actors imagine futures for energy-efficient computing in collaborative settings aimed at addressing complex societal challenges.

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