Innovating the scenario of scientific publishing in design: designing “living publications”.

This article presents an ongoing research project aiming at innovating the modalities and formats of scientific and academic publication of design research. The digital transformation and the open access paradigm have a considerable impact on the circulation of high-quality scientific production at global level: the challenge is to achieve innovative forms of authoritative, high-impactand effective scholarly communication, pursued with a multiscale and mixed media strategy, in order to guarantee an extended impact, while maintaining rigour and authority. In this context the scientific publication of design is taking on new forms and objectives too, so the design discipline can be a pivotal field for the experimentation and discussion of new scientific publication formats for scientific research. The article presents the preliminary findings of the project PRODE. Scientific production indesigndeveloped at the Design department of Politecnico di Milano: the case studies research and the proposal of Living Publications, that support the envisioning of future scenarios of scientific publishing and the development of an experimental prototype of Living publications Formatin the design domain.