Francesca Tosi

Francesca Tosi, Architect, is Full Professor of Industrial Design at Department of Architecture - DIDA, University of Florence. She develops her research and didactic activities in the fields of Human-Centred Design/User Experience and Inclusive Design, particularly in the areas of product and service innovation for healthcare and social care, inclusive design for urban spaces, and museum environments and visitor routes.

 

On the same subjects: she is author of books, essays and articles, she organized conferences and events, and she was/is scientific responsible of research funded by European Union, Italian Ministry of University, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, and by public administrations and private companies. 

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Since 1996 to 2007 she was Assistant and, then, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Design of Politecnico di Milano. Since November 2007 she is Full professor at Department of Architecture of University of Florence.

 

Currently she is: 

• President of CUID Italian Design Academic Conference. 

• Director of the Interuniversity Research Center HCD-Care.

• Director of the Doctoral School of Project Studies and Cultures.

• past-President of SIE, Italian Society of Ergonomics and human factors (2010-2018). 

 

She is also: 

• Director of the series “Design, innovation, territory” (with G. Lotti, S. Follesa, A. Rinaldi) of publisher FrancoAngeli, Milano. 

• Director of the series “Ergonomics in Design” of publisher FrancoAngeli, Milano.

• Chief Editor of “Springer Series Design and Innovation”, Springer ed.

• President of the scientific committee of the “Italian journal of Ergonomics”.

• Member of the scientific committee of the journal “AND” Dna ed. Firenze; 

• Member of the scientific committee of the series “Design International” of publisher FrancoAngeli.

• Member of the Scientific Committee, BA_Beyond Accessibility, editorial series of Fedoa Press, University of Naples Federico II.