This document discusses developing experimental skills through peer-to-peer learning at Polifactory, a multidisciplinary makerspace. Polifactory is interested in empowering design capabilities through new forms of experiential learning and identifying how designer skills are transforming with new technologies like 3D printing, AI, and robotics. The focus is on identifying structural factors that enable the transformation of experiential learning and could form the basis for future designer skills as jobs are impacted by digitization, automation, and robots. However, perception, creative and social intelligence tasks may be bottlenecks to automation, providing hope for the future of design jobs through evolving the relationship between humans and technology.

1. DEVELOPING EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS:
BUILDING A PEER TO PEER
NEW MAIEUTICS
STEFANO MAFFEI
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN
POLIFACTORY

2. P OL IFACTOR Y…
…A MULTIDISCIPLINARY
MAKERSPACE / RESEARCH LAB
TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN DESIGN AND THE CHANGE
OF PRODUCTION MODELS

3. P OL IFACTOR Y IS IN TER ES TED TO …
…
empowering design capabilities
through new forms of experiential learning

4. P OL IFACTOR Y IS IN TER ES TED TO …
Identify, study, describe and debate
the transformation of design(er) skills
within the “Great Transformation”
(Brynjolfsson and McAfee, 2014)

5. THE FO UR TH I N DUS TR IAL (R ) EVOL UTION
B I O T E C H
N A N O T E C H
3 D P R I N T I N G
A R T I F I C I A L I N T E L L I G E N C E
B I G D A T A
R O B O T I C S
The rediscussion
of design(er) role
in terms of processes,
places and capabilities.
DES IG N ?

6. THE FO CU S
To identify the structural factors which enable the
transformation of the experiential-experimental learning
…
because they could become the basis to develop future
design/designer skills

7. DIGITIZATION + AUTOMATION =
The creation of possible futures
through a technology-based
development model
THE JOB CHALLENGE
… where physical and algorithmic robots
are undergoing exponential growth,
with an economic and social impact…

8. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne | WORK 2.0
THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT:
HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS
TO COMPUTERISATION?

9. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne | WORK 2.0
THERE ARE BOTTLENECKS
TO AUTOMATION?

10. Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne | WORK 2.0
B OTTL EN ECK S TO AUTOM ATION
( G OOD N EW S FOR DES IG N )
PERCEPTION AND MANIPULATION TASKS
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE TASKS
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE TASKS

11. FUTUR E O F ( DES IG N ) J O B S
The empowerment of
competencies through an evolved
relationship between humans
and technologies and strengthening
them through new practices
and enabling environments.