Andrea Vian

Associate Professor in Digital design
Università degli Studi di Genova

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
— R. Buckminster Fuller

Human centered design
Designing technologies around human needs, values, and contexts—AI as a partner in hybrid models of learning, adaptation, and decision-making.
Designing future lives
Tools to navigate an uncertain, accelerating future—not by fixing goals, but by imagining meaningful paths through change.
Ai driven web design
Exploring how AI and data shape future-ready systems—designing today the digital infrastructures of tomorrow.

About me

My research activities in brief

Digital innovation and life design through human-centered design and AI and data-driven methods

Bio & resume

My academic career summary

I received my master’s degree in Architecture and Ph.D. degree in Design from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, working on digital tools for 3D representation and modeling for design and architectural applications. For more than a decade I have been the scientfic advisor and leading scientist of the digital lab at my department, also acting as the main referent for the digital network architecture design and maintenance.
I currently am Associate Professor of Design with the University of Genoa.

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Research

Principal research interests

As a digital designer, I investigate UX, UI and accessibility within the human centered design paradigm. My current research focuses on the study, design and implementation of complex web systems, hybrid human-AI applications, and digital innovation processes that are fundamental to govern the exponential change of technology and society.

Publications | Conferences and talks | Awards and honors

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