It is a great pleasure to announce that the third edition of FACTUM conference “Fashion Communication: between tradition and future digital developments” will take place 3-5 July, 2023 in Pisa, Italy. The call for papers is now open, click here for further details!
The 7th edition of USI's UNESCO Chair Summer School will take place 16-24 August, 2022 in Indonesia in collaboration with Trisakti School of Tourism. It will cover topics related to fashion heritage and Batik. Few spaces still available, to register click here!
Congratulations to Dr. Puspita Ayu Permatasari for successfully defending her doctoral thesis entitled “iWareBatik: Digital Information System for Enhancing Batik Learning in the Framework of Heritage Preservation and Sustainable Tourism” supervised by prof. Cantoni.
The master students had the opportunity to participate to the LifeStyleTech Innovation Day and interact with 600+ international players working in the field of digital transformation. Dr. Kalbaska presented together with Marco Massara, Omnichannel Director for Prénatal, a project on personalization.
A special thank you to professor Alberto Fabio Ambrosio for the interesting conversation on “Fashion, Dress and Religion”. If you have missed the event and wish to learn more on the topic, you may find the recording here!
The collaboration between USI and Bally continues with interesting projects. Nicolas Girotto, CEO of Bally, for the public event “Made in Switzerland. The case of Bally” presented the role of digital communication in the constitution of a national image. Thank you for sharing!
The spring semester has come to an end for the master students bringing to life interesting projects! For the course ‟Digital Fashion Communication: Lab” they immersed themselves in and developed novel ideas on ‟Fashion games, fashion in games, and gamification in digital fashion”.
Little space in the wardrobe? Could Digital Clothing be a solution? Dr. Kalbaska provides her view on the topic in an interview with Tilt UoL.Image: Tilt UoL
A great achievement for Università della Svizzera italiana which consolidates its position in the “top 250” category in the latest QS Quacquarelli Symonds' World University Rankings. USI maintains 240th place out of 1,500 universities reviewed.
Want to find out more about the key issues that will mark the fashion industry? What are the challenges faced by executive education? To read the contributions by prof. Cantoni and other esteemed professors, download the business report published by ISEM Fashion Business School.
Tekila Harley Nobile, Ph.D. candidate, conducted a research period at Yonsei University (Seoul) with professor Eunju Ko supported by the “Young Researchers’ Exchange Programme Swiss-Korean”. “It was an enriching experience that helped me broaden my horizon on personalization in digital fashion”.
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