POLI.teca: a Design Knowledge Center at Politecnico di Milano. A Physical Interface to Networked Knowledge

摘要

This paper describes the making of POLI.teca, a DesignNet pilot project of Design Knowledge Centre inside Politecnico di Milano. Poli.teca is the meeting place of laboratories and archives which provide documents and resources in support of design education and research. POLI.teca is a mix between documentation and a design centre. From design centres it has borrowed a highly research and business-oriented approach, keeping contacts and promoting collaborations with public and commercial organizations; at the same time it is the place where is collected the scientific production of the Department and the Faculty of Design. Such polyhedric identity has thus led to categorize it as a Design Knowledge Centre.