Next publications
Design in Digital Health Emergencies (in preparation). Perspectives, approaches, and diverse innovations.
An edited collection of articles, interviews and projects (prototypes) that present the diverse or specific topics that emerge when design practice and meet health, healthcare, care challenges. The book features three sections that present different perspectives and approaches adopted in design research on healthcare. Each contribution revolves around a key “emergent” challenge, it explains it, it tangibly address it, not necessarily provide solutions to it. Each contribution provides insights on research outputs, methods or theoretical approaches that can instigate diverse frameworks for addressing issues in health and care.
Design for Digital Autonomies (in research phase)
Started during a sabbatical leave and visiting research period at ELISAVA Research in Barcelona (Sept-Dec 2026), the concept is evolving towards the idea of a monographic publication on the transition from experiences in programs on digital skills development to the development of a full framework for identifying how design can enable more expanded forms of people-communities autonomies through digital and emergent technologies.
The concept was presented for the first time within the talk series of ELISAVA Research organized on 20th November 2026. The transcript of the talk is available at this page.
Design for Digital Autonomies. Talk at ELISAVA 20 November 2025.
Cangiano S (2024). “Design for future skills”, in Schierling L. (Ed.), Digital transformation in design: processes and practices. transcript Verlag. pp. 169-186
*“*If we could ask an AI to sketch the cover of a report on the future of education, it would probably be a classroom full of students in the process of learning “coding” or an apocalyptic world where there is no need for human workers, thanks to fully automated factories with robotics arms. This is what the AI could probably see if it would process all the pictures on the web and get across the last two industrial revolutions, two events that brought a rather positive narrative on the impact of digital technologies on human life: we will all become programmers or data
scientists who use algorithms, machines, and data to make almost anything. Today, we could speculate that this positive narrative is driving the agenda on the digital transformation in education in every economy in the world: digital skills development is seen as a solution to the high demand for professionals who know “how to code.” This narrative is rarely accompanied by reflections on how new technologies could reinforce social inequity or how their adoption can take place only if it is connected to a social change.”
Main publications
CreativeApplications.net
Cangiano S., Fornari D., Seratoni A (eds.), (2015) Re-programmed art: an open manifesto, Johan&Levi, Monza
Graziano. V, Romano L., Cangiano S. Fragnito S., (eds.). (2019). Rebeling with Care. Commoning technlogies for health, WeMake, Milano.
Download
Banzi M., Cangiano S. & Fornari D. (eds.). (2016). Tecnologie aperte / Open Technologies. Monographic issue of Progetto Grafico, 30 (Autumn 2016).
Read online articles
Cangiano S. Romano Z. (eds.), 2017. Digital Social Innovation Toolkit, DSI4EU, www.dsi4eu.github.io/toolkit
ORCID page (work in progress)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7972-1833
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Cangiano S., Open tools for data literacy development at school. A case of systemic and experience design approach to civic tech education, in: proceedings of MIS4TEL 2023 Proceedings, Guimarães (Portugal), Springer, 2023
Froehlich M., Kriegleder M., Cangiano S. Gaehwiler J., Jurt R., Blimpy - an artistic framework for creating a spatial augmented reality experience with helium blimps, in: proceedings of ISEA20 Sensient Technologies, Montreal, 2020.
Cangiano S., Loglio M., “Introducing Machine Learning in the Creative Communities: A Case Study Workshop”, in Allen R et al (eds.) (2018). Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art Proceedings. City University of Hong Kong. proceedings of Art Machines, 4th e 5th January 2019, ISCMA, Hong Kong