Enza MIGLIORE

Enza Migliore is a researcher, educator, and design practitioner who focuses on exploring materials through interdisciplinary and empirical practices that combine design, science, technology, and art. She holds a Ph.D. in Design and Innovation from the Second University of Naples and a two-year postdoctoral degree (2017-2019) from Tokyo Metropolitan University, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Her interests include materials and design, eco-intelligent design, bio-innovation, and techno-materialities. Enza has published research papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings in the fields of design, materials science, interdisciplinary studies, media art, and HCI (ACM and EI-indexed). She actively participates in international and high-end, established exhibitions to disseminate her work (Venice Biennale, Milan Triennale, UABB, Shenzhen Design Week, and more).

She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, where she has founded and leads the Materialities Lab. Their work pushes the boundaries of materials to redefine and challenge their materiality as fundamental interfaces that facilitate human interactions with the environment and society, while also incorporating more-than-human perspectives. She strives to connect research with society and to inform inaccessible and uncontaminated scientific laboratories with creative practices that bring them closer to life. At the same time, she aims to make scientific protocols, procedures, and results accessible to designers. She is a permanent visiting researcher at IPCB (Institute of Polymers, Composites, and Biomaterials, the Italian National Research Center), Hybrid Design Lab (Federico II University of Naples); she is an Editorial  Board Member of TechDesign.

Personal Website: https://www.enzamigliore.com

Ongoing projects:

Ecological Material Systems: Earthen Material Systems for Responsive Environments via Material Encodings and Additive Manufacturing

More Than Human Design: Enhanced HPI (Human-Plants-Interaction, within HCI fields)

HCI for Material Culture: Urban Ecologies Exploration Through Materialities and Digital Technologies

Selected Outputs:

Yao, Z., Migliore, E*., Galluzzi, M., & Liu, J. (2025). Innovative Hygroscopic Material for Humidity Regulation: Diatomaceous Earth Composite Porous Ceramic. Crystals, 15(2), 158. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst15020158 

Convertino, M., Migliore, E., & Martines, A. (2025). Eco-Inspired terraform networks emerge from material self-organization. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 34997.

Ran, C., Migliore, E. (2025). Exploration of Clay-printed TPMS Structures with Varying Porosity for Passive Humidity Regulation, In Conference Proceedings CAADRIA 2025, Tokyo.

Migliore, E*., Verdolotti, L., Langella, C., & Liguori, B. (2024). Material design meta-protocols: a method for design-driven experiments in the Lab. The case of nature’s porous intelligence as a strategy for materials innovation. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Diseño y Comunicación, (239). https://doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi239.11535

Migliore, E., Zhang, Y., & Ma, Y. (2025). Future Archeology: Boosting Cultural Vibrancy and Future Memories through AI-Regenerated Materialities in Co-Designed Virtual Spaces. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (pp. 1-6). DOI:10.1145/3689050.3706014

Migliore, E., Sagesser, M. Z., & Ma, Y. (2024). The Grain No. 12/11 W4 102 1 From the City: Integrating a 3D Model with Audio Data as an Experimental Creative Method. In Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction (pp. 1-8). DOI: 10.1145/3678698.3687206

Migliore, E., Convertino, M. (2024). Emerging Materialities: Exploring the Entanglement of Nature, Design, and Technology in Contemporary Materials, In: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes, Special Issue Biomimetics, Biodesign, and Bionics. Technological Advances Towards a Sustainable Development, Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65877-8_3

Migliore, E., Yao, Z., & Deng, X. (2023). Porous ceramics for the design of domestic ecologies. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 436-453). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35705-3_32 

Selected EXHIBITIONS

Migliore, E., Convertino, M, & Martines, A. (2025). Terraforms: The Shape of Natural Intelligence for Ecological Design, MATERIAL MATTER, 19th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2025, Venice, May 2025 ~ Nov. 2025

Migliore, E. et al. (2025). Alternatures, Future Archeology, and Tell Me Concrete Stories, China Section, at Milano Triennale, Milan, May 2025 ~ Nov. 2025 

Migliore, E., Sagesser, M. (2024).  A Grain Of. Designing for Techno-Natural Futures: Rendering Shenzhen’s Urban Materialities from Inside a “Grain”, At Shenzhen Design Week, Nanshan Museum, Shenzhen, April 27 ~ May 27