Philippe Casens

Together with the UHA (university de Haute Alsace), the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry) of Mulhouse SUD ALSACE and DA (Domus Academy in Milan), it's a course dedicated to the interior design of vehicle been in Mulhouse. The technical side is taught by UHA ensisa, while the creative side concerning soft qualities is endorsed by Domus Academy. The presence of companies contributes to a mix aimed to form a new generation of designers.
For more information
http://www.serfa.fr/master_design/index.html

Since 2003, under the name disopra (www.disopra.com) together with Arch. Federica Galbusieri, we are providing an outsourcing activity ranging from design innovation to project research and architecture.

Working for Domus Academy since 1995, leading coordinating the master in design course, the car design and mobility course, participating to several research seminar and collaborating with the DARC Domus Academy Research Center. As a visiting professor, hodling workshops travelling abroad in different Universities in Cina, France, India, Taiwan, Thailand.
Worked as a project leader for the 2009 final master project with the students of the master in design dealing with energy saving and domotics for the french/german company :hager group.
As well for the 2010 final master project with 10 students of the master in design around topics such as electric car cabling, secondary cabling system and interface design items.
Also contributed to the launch of the first Master in Transport in Interior design delivered by the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, as co-director of Domus Academy contribution.

http://www.domusacademy.com/site/home/master-programs/car-design/intro.html

Theory and History of Design
advising and tutoring student's projects

with Pier Luigi Cerri developing the following:

for domodinamica (Bologna)
A P T A elastic chair
C U B I C A

for Riva 1920 (Cantu):
Oak Table made out of venetian briccole

for desalto:
- Yuko chair: injection moulding in aluminium
http://www.desalto.it/english/seatings0.asp?ID=58
- Mac table:
http://www.desalto.it/english/tables0.asp?ID=64

Also in charge of developing projects in furniture design, lighting design

For Ntv (Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori) involved between 2007 and 2009 in the definiton of the interior design of the new AGV high speed trains, together with Eliana Lorena (team csd www.team-csd.com) in charge of the colors finishing and materials. My consultancy has been also to define the upholstering of the seats with Poltrona Frau and to design some parts of the seating system in conjunction with Alstom/Compin and Italdesign Giugiaro.

The corporate and graphic design has been designed by Pierluigi Cerri and Roberto Libanori and is in part visible at:

http://www.ntvspa.it/it/galleriaimmagini/12/24/2/O/NTV

. layout of the book architecture&mobility, ed. Skira(Milan)
. layout and editing of the book design&marketing ed. Eska (Paris)

Under the supervision of Arch. Maurizio Favetta I have developped with Arch. Federica Galbusieri an interior design project for the Tamatete Art Gallery in Rome

By Isao Hosoe I have coordinated and developpped different projects:
- an office operative system for BIF Borneo International Furniture (Soth Korea)
- a car wash system for Ceccato (Vicenza)
- a rotative switch for Palazzoli (Brescia)
- a research on material for Fiat Advanced design

with Clino trini Castelli I have coordinated in Triniteam the development of the promotion tools for the launch of the Living and Light plugs (bTicino) series in Germany. For Legrand we developed a design metaproject approach and tools to be used by the company.
I also worked in the graphic design of the "Transitive design" book published by Electa and for other projects for bTicino.

my role as Tutor of Master in Design has also have been to create a "bridge" between the educational activity and that of the DARC DOMUS ACADEMY Research amd Consulting, concerning the folow-up of seminars with companies such as Alessi, CASIO, Dockers, JcDecaux, Samsung, SoftBank, Sunstar, TinyLove and different public and private institutions.

with Andrea Branzi I have developped design projects for Alessi, lamps for Design Gallery,door knobs for Olivari, furniture for Zanotta, Kartell.

executive drawings for:
- Restaurant Da Cesarina NYC
- Erreuno shop in Florence

I was learning that designing furniture is not such an easy thing. Beppi Fiori was there and told me: "you, french guy why don't you learn how to cook instead?" He worked a long time for Giò Ponti before. This experience in Bernini has been for me has been such a nice time and Iearn a lot going around this old factory ful of prototypes of the '70s of Gaetano Pesce, Fabio Lenci. Joe Colombo...I met there Achille Castiglioni

The internship in the technical office during July 1985 in Simon factory was a way to discover the roots of italian design. This company was developing in the '60 the Cesca chair of Marcel Breuer and worked with many artist architects of the time. Thanks to this experience I decided to go on collaborating with furniture companies and dedicate my efforts to develop my skills in this field.