Degree in Architecture, Ph.D. in Technical Innovation & Project in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano.
Full Professor of the Design Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, Study Course in Interior Design and Product Service System Design.
Her main interests concern interior design (especially in the field of residential buildings, retail, hospitality) as well as technological and design driven innovation.

She has co- operated to some researches financed by the Ministry of Scientific Research, among which "The typological flexibility in the residential design" (directed by Antonio Scoccimarro), "The role of the Industrial Design for product's innovation. Development of projecting resources of Italian-System between local resources and global markets" (directed by Ezio Manzini).

Hospitality has been the focus of many activities both in the field of education as well as of research.
Since the academic year 2002/2003 she runs the design studio “Metadesign for hospitality” and she has been tutor of several final thesis on the same topic.
In the academic year 2003/04, “Design for Tourism” has been the title of the new master course designed by Luisa Collina together with Norman Mc Nally of Glasgow School of Art for the Universidad Pablo de Olavide of Seville (Spain).
On the same topic she has coordinate in April 2004 the participation of the Politecnico di Milano Design School to “Dining Design”, the exhibition of Adam Tihany, organized within the International Furniture Fair of Milan, with a project of a Chinese Restaurant in Rome.
Hospitality has been the titele of the Designing Designers conference organized within the same edition of the Milan Furniture Fair.
She has taken part in the years 2002-2004 to the research financed by the Italian Ministry for University “Me.Design. Design for the Mediterranean Area”.
She has written many articles and texts on the relation between hotels and design. Among the others:

Luisa Collina, Luciano Crespi, Fabio Reinhart (a cura di), Il design dell’ospitalità: la sala delle feste dell’Hotel Hilton di Milano, POLI.design, Milano, 2002

Luisa Collina, “Architettura e Design nel progetto dell’ospitalità”, “Riflessioni sul tema di progetto”, in Luisa Collina, Luciano Crespi, Fabio Reinhart (a cura di), Il design dell’ospitalità: la sala delle feste dell’Hotel Hilton di Milano, POLI.design, Milano, 2002, pp. 7-17, pp.39-42

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “Hotel Mercure Prado”, in Suite, n. 94, aprile 2002,
pp. 34-40

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “Hotel Teufelhof”, in Suite, n. 96, agosto 2002, pp. 44-51

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “The Hempel”, in Suite, n. 98, dicembre 2002, pp.54-60

Luisa Collina, “Hotel Parco dei Principi”, in Suite, n.99, febbraio 2003, pp. 44-50

“Più-Yiù. Chinese Restaurant in Rome”, in Dining Design, Catalogo della Mostra tenutasi dal 14 al 19.04.04 al Pad. 9 della Fiera di Milano, Cosmit, Milano 2004

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers. Designing hospitality:
visions, scenarios, systems, services, spaces and products, POLI.design, Milano 2005

Luisa Collina, Design e Metaprogetto. Teorie, strumenti, pratiche, POLI.design, Milano, 2005

Luisa Collina, Luciano Crespi, Francesco Scullica, “Nuovi orizzonti tematici”, in Adriano Cornoldi (a cura di), Architettura degli interni, Il Poligrafo, Padova 2005, pp. 139-140

Luisa Collina, “Casa Camper”, in Suite, n.117, ottobre 2005, pp. 36-41

Since 2000 she has been in charge of the international relations and projects of the Faculty and INDACO Department (Department of Industrial design, Art, Communication and Fashion) at Politecnico di Milano.
She collaborates with universities, research centres and companies in international research programs and strategic innovation projects in the design field. She has been project coordinator of some of these international projects, for example:

_“DxD – Design for District_Design for Industrial Districts. Expertise systems and new net connections for the competitiveness of Local Production Systems”, together with Agenzia Lumetel (Development Agency of the Italian District of Lumezzane), funded by the Region of Lombardy and the Chamber of Commerce of Brescia;
_ HiCS_“Highly Customerised Solutions” within the European Commission 2001-2004 5th Framework Programme
Competitive and Sustainable Growth;
_“Design driven innovation for the SME in Chile: Centro di Excellencia UDIP_PYME in Valparaiso”, with Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Universidad de Valparaiso (Valparaiso-Cile), funded by Istituto per il Commercio Estero (Italian Institute for International Commerce), Region of Lombardy;
_“Master en Diseno – Design for Society”, master designed by Politecnico di Milano and Glasgow School of Arts for Università Pablo de Olavide of Siviglia, 2002-2004;
_”Culture of living”, international research funded by the Cultura 2000 EU Program.

At the present moment she is project coordinator of the Specific Support Action funded within the VI European Framework Programme:

_E-Mude_Emerging Users’ Demands for Sustainable Solutions with the European Commission 6th Framework Programme – EU, 2004-2006
Integrated projects_The creation of "knowledge communities" in production technologies.

The results of her research and didactic activity have been presented through various international conferences and publications, among the others:

_“Clusters: the importance of innovation” as project coordinator of “DxD – Design for local districts” within the “International conference on territorial development”, organized by DATAR and OCSE 28-30 January 2002, Paris;
_“Dise?o Industrial en la peque?a y mediana empresa: el modelo italiano”, Hotel Carrera, Santiago, Cile (12.09.2002);
_“The Design wisdom”, 5th European Academy of Design Conference, Barcelona with a paper untitled “Design networks and knowledge management for supporting small and medium enterprises. Cases from Italy” (28-30.04.2003);
_”Milan: living design”, Gadjah Mada University, Yogykarta, Indonesia. (24.02.2005).

Since 2000 she is member of the PhD board in “Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication” of Politecnico di Milano (directed by Ezio Manzini and Giovanni Baule).
In 2004 she has been elected in the executive board of Politecnico di Milano.

Since academic year 2005/2006, she coordinates a new master course of Politecnico di Milano ( taught in English) in Product-Service-System Design designed for international students.

Researches funded by the Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific and Technological Research

Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific and Technological Research (MIUR 1998-2000)
“SDI – Italian Design System: the role of industrial design for product innovation. Development of design resources of the System-Italy between local resources and global market”

Italian Ministry of the University and Scientific and Technological Research (MIUR 2000-2002)
“Design for Districts. Systems of competences and new networks for the competitiveness of Italian Local Manufacturing Systems with a role of national coordination”

MIUR 2001 – 2003 National
Me.Design: strategies, instruments and operations in industrial design for valorising and boosting resources in the Mediterranean area from local to global

Publications

Ernst Neufert, Manuale pratico per progettare e costruire, 8 edizione italiana, U.Hoepli Editore, Milano, 1999, a cura di Adriana Baglioni, Arie Gottfried con Luisa Collina e Cecilia Locatelli, tradotto e adattato al contesto italiano da Luisa Collina e Cecilia Locatelli

Luisa Collina, “Valore d’uso e valore storico del manuale: note relative alla traduzione e all’adattamento dell’opera”, in Ernst Neufert, Manuale pratico per progettare e costruire, 8edizione italiana, U.Hoepli Editore, Milano, 1999, a cura di Adriana Baglioni, Arie Gottfried con Luisa Collina e Cecilia Locatelli

Luisa Collina, “Il settore della rubinetteria cromata: la sfida in atto”, in L’industria meccanica, n.534, ottobre 1998, p.66-68

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “DxD. Design for District”, in Stefano Maffei, Giuliano Simonelli, Il design per i Distretti industriali, POLI.design, Milano 2000, pp.173-187

Luisa Collina, “Architettura e impianti: progettare la relazione”, in Giuliano Dall’O, Gli impianti nell’architettura, UTET Torino, 2000, pp.227-298

Flaviano Celaschi, Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Design for district. Progetti per un distretto, POLI.design, Milano, 2001

Flaviano Celaschi, Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “DxD Un progetto pilota”, in Flaviano Celaschi, Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Design for district. Progetti per un distretto, POLI.design, Milano, 2001, pp.10-21

Luisa Collina, “Architetture su carta”, in Modulo, n.269, marzo 2001, pp. 150-157

Luisa Collina, “Berlino. I materiali della città laboratorio”, in Modulo, n.271, maggio 2001, pp. 380-385

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers. Training strategies for the third Millenium, POLI.design, Milano, 2001

Luisa Collina, “The themes of Designing Designers 2001 edition”, “The relationship between design and local productive systems”, in Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers. Training strategies for the third Millenium, POLI.design, Milano, 2001, pp. XVI-XXV, pp.95-98

Luisa Collina, “DxD – Design for District”, in MODO, n. 210, marzo-aprile 2001, pp.52-55

Luisa Collina e Giuliano Simonelli, “La dimensione del metaprogetto”, in Antonella Penati (a cura di), Giovane è il design, POLI.design, Milano 2001, pp.117-125

Luisa Collina, Giulia Gerosa, “Expocomfort, anima e corpo”, in Ottagono, n.150, maggio 2002, pp.117-119
Luisa Collina, Luciano Crespi, Fabio Reinhart (a cura di), Il design dell’ospitalità: la sala delle feste dell’Hotel Hilton di Milano, POLI.design, Milano, 2002

Luisa Collina, “Architettura e Design nel progetto dell’ospitalità”, “Riflessioni sul tema di progetto”, in Luisa Collina, Luciano Crespi, Fabio Reinhart (a cura di), Il design dell’ospitalità: la sala delle feste dell’Hotel Hilton di Milano, POLI.design, Milano, 2002, pp. 7-17, pp.39-42

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “Hotel Mercure Prado”, in Suite, n. 94, aprile 2002,
pp. 34-40

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “Hotel Teufelhof”, in Suite, n. 96, agosto 2002, pp. 44-51

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “The Hempel”, in Suite, n. 98, dicembre 2002, pp.54-60

Luisa Collina, “Hotel Parco dei Principi”, in Suite, n.99, febbraio 2003, pp. 44-50

Luisa Collina, “Impianti tecnici e design”, in Giuliano Dall’O (a cura di), Gli impianti nell’architettura e nel restauro, UTET, Torino 2003, pp.203-210

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers: Design for a local global world, POLI.design, Milano 2003

Luisa Collina, “Design for the development of productive systems, local conditions and identities”, in Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers: Design for a local global world, POLI.design, Milano 2003, pp.3-5

Luisa Collina, “Per una mappa del metaprogetto”, in Alessandro Deserti (a cura di), Metaprogetto. Riflessioni teoriche ed esperienze didattiche, POLI.design, Milano 2003, pp.57-76

Ezio Manzini, Luisa Collina, Steve Evans (a cura di), Solution oriented partnership. How to design industrialised sustainable solutions, Cranfield University 2004

Luisa Collina, Steve Evans, “Introduction to the themes” in Ezio Manzini, Luisa Collina, Steve Evans (a cura di), Solution oriented partnership. How to design industrialised sustainable solutions, Cranfield University 2004, pp.13-15

Luisa Collina, “System architecture”, in Ezio Manzini, Luisa Collina, Steve Evans (a cura di), Solution oriented partnership. How to design industrialised sustainable solutions, Cranfield University 2004, pp.85-86

Steve Evans, Luisa Collina, “Introduction to tools”, in Ezio Manzini, Luisa Collina, Steve Evans (a cura di), Solution oriented partnership. How to design industrialised sustainable solutions, Cranfield University 2004, pp.58-71

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers: Design schools as factories of knowledge. Research through design education, POLI.design, Milano 2004

Luisa Collina, “Design schools as factories of knowledge“, in Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers: Design schools as factories of knowledge. Research through design education, POLI.design, Milano 2004, p.1-7

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli, “Generating Tools: fighting barriers to innovation”, in Stuart MacDonald (a cura di), Design Issues in Europe Today, BEDA, 2004, pp.16-17

Luisa Collina (a cura di), Il corpo delle cose. Workshop progettuale curato da Santiago Miranda, POLI.design, Milano 2004

Luisa Collina, “Testi che generano progetti”, in Luisa Collina (a cura di), Il corpo delle cose. Workshop progettuale curato da Santiago Miranda, POLI.design, Milano 2004, pp. 5-6

“Più-Yiù. Chinese Restaurant in Rome”, in Dining Design, Catalogo della Mostra tenutasi dal 14 al 19.04.04 al Pad. 9 della Fiera di Milano, Cosmit, Milano 2004

Luisa Collina, “Il design della flessibilità nel progetto dell'abitare” e “Il design della flessibilità nel progetto di sperimentazione”, in Daniele Fanzini (a cura di), Il Progetto nei programmi complessi di intervento, CLUP, Milano 2004

Luisa Collina, Giuliano Simonelli (a cura di), Designing Designers. Designing hospitality:
visions, scenarios, systems, services, spaces and products, POLI.design, Milano 2005

Luisa Collina, Design e Metaprogetto. Teorie, strumenti, pratiche, POLI.design, Milano, 2005

Luisa Collina, Luciano Crespi, Francesco Scullica, “Nuovi orizzonti tematici”, in Adriano Cornoldi (a cura di), Architettura degli interni, Il Poligrafo, Padova 2005, pp. 139-140

Luisa Collina, “Casa Camper”, in Suite, n.117, ottobre 2005, pp. 36-41