PhD Amilton Arruda – UFPE | ISMAT
Graduation in Industrial Design Product Project by UFPE (1982), Master in Design and Bionics by IED in Milan (1992), Doctorate in Ricerca in Disegno Industriale – Ph.D by University of Milan Politecnico (2002) and postdoctoral in Design and Bionics at IADE European University UNIDCOM Lisbon (2018/2019), and postdoctoral in Bionics at University Luigi Vanvitelli Nápoles – IT (2021/2022). Since 1985 professor of the UFPE Design Course. He is currently full professor. He coordinates the Research Group on Biodesign and Industrial Artifacts at UFPE. Organizer together with Edgard Blucher of the [DesignCONTEXTO] series design, culture and technology essays from the following books: (2017) 1. Design and Complexity; (2017) 2. Design and Social Innovation; (2018) 3. Design, Artifacts and Sustainable Systems; (2022) 4. Narratives and Languages in the creative process in Modeling and Prototyping. Always with Edgar Blucher he organizes the series [designNATUREZA] essays on design, bionics and biomimetics with the following book: (2018) Methods and Processes in Bionics and Bio- mimetics: the technological revolution by nature; (2020) Design and Bionics. Carmelo Di Bartolo and Centro Ricerche IED: esperienze memorabili da 30 protagonisti.