Faculty

Profile

Christian is a Leadership Coach and Associate Professor for Strategic Management. He has been working in strategic design throughout his career, from evolving industrial design to product-service-system design working for the Studio de Lucchi in Milan, guiding interaction design projects and consulting programs for user centered innovation strategies working for IDEO in London, as well as assisting executive leadership in placing innovation competencies and communication models across organizations within his own professional practice. As an academician Christian has worked with the Polytechnic University in Milan (MFA Strategic Design), Carleton University in Ottawa (BFA Industrial Design), Zeppelin University (MBA) and HFG Pforzheim (MFA Creative Direction). He joined Parsons School of Design Strategies in July 2011 and has taught in all programs of the School. His interests, besides online teaching and online collaboration, is to evolve the process of strategy development, such as the design of non numeric assessment methods and decision making processes based on scope, purpose and value systems - to systematically use design to empower uncertainty and to embrace complexity.

Recent Publications

blog:

https://co-design.medium.com

2022-01-03, 9th Annual International Conference on Humanities and the Arts, Athens:

From design thinking to designing inclusive collaborations

2021-11-10, maize magazine:

Embracing Complexity with Strategic Design

2021-04-29, EDUCAUSE:

Reimagining Online Culture: Project-Based Learning, Inclusion, and Reach in Online Education

2020-06-19, Salone del Mobile, Life talk:

Design, society and distance learning: what will survive to what?

Research Interests

access to education, online teaching and mentoring, collaboration design, system design

Awards And Honors

2014 Compasso d’oro ADI menzione d’onore for “youcrux”, 2006 JPMA Student Award, 1999 Red dot award for best user interface (T-concept product line)