Design Intelligences

As Fellow Professor at IT:U, Prof. Giaccardi leads the Design Intelligences research group, a multispecies, multiagent, and multisite collective based at Politecnico di Milano and extending into the Computational X program at IT:U. The group explores intelligence as plural, relational, and more-than-human, bringing together design, AI, and ecological thinking to investigate how human, artificial, and ecological intelligences can be integrated for regenerative futures. They move beyond individual or computational models, framing intelligence as distributed across bodies, environments, and infrastructures. Through research-through-design, they examine how interfaces and materials mediate relations among intelligences, fostering new forms of planetary habitability.