Why Federico?
Federico Casalegno is the Chief Design Innovation Officer of Samsung Design Innovation Center (SDIC), Samsung
Electronics, in San Francisco, CA, where he leads multidisciplinary teams to
create disruptive user experiences and envision future products, and launch
them to market.
Federico founded and directed the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology MIT Design Lab, and MIT Mobile Experience Lab, SHASS, program in Comparative Media Studies. He has been awarded
honorary professorships by the Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow and
the Jiangnan University School of Design in Wuxi, China.
As a designer and social scientist with an
interest in the impact of networked digital technologies on human behavior and
society, Professor Casalegno both teaches and leads advanced research at MIT, where
he designed technologically enhanced systems and environments to foster
connections between people, information and physical places, using cutting-edge
technologies.
He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology of
Culture and Communication from the Sorbonne University, Paris V, with a focus
on mediated communication and social interaction in networked communities and
smart cities.
Federico has published several scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, books and articles. For the Living Memory connected community project he was awarded the Best Concept prize by the American Leading Industrial Designers I.D. Magazine, and the Silver Prize Design Concept by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).
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