Become a resident
at CoFactory
Embark on your 3D journey here at the forefront of Designtech's revolution within its Milan's 4.0 Factory: a vibrant, welcoming hub for designers, companies, and startups.
Discover the ultimate setup across coworking spaces, bespoke offices and innovative labs. Leverage top-tier expertise and first-class infrastructure, spanning from parametric design for additive manufacturing to the latest in robotics and performance-driven 3D printing, to bring your three-dimensional innovation to life.
Embark on your 3D journey here at the forefront of Designtech's revolution within its Milan's 4.0 Factory: a vibrant, welcoming hub for designers, companies, and startups.
Discover the ultimate setup across coworking spaces, bespoke offices and innovative labs. Leverage top-tier expertise and first-class infrastructure, spanning from parametric design for additive manufacturing to the latest in robotics and performance-driven 3D printing, to bring your three-dimensional innovation to life.
Designtech @MDW2024
During #MDW24 CoFactory, in the vibrant Certosa district, makes its public debut. Explore the prototypes of the Additive Design Contest winners, born from the collaboration with Roboze. Dive into exclusive events, joining our community of innovators.
Embrace the future of design and become a CoFactory resident for a day: here the boldest ideas take shape.
During #MDW24 CoFactory, in the vibrant Certosa district, makes its public debut. Explore the prototypes of the Additive Design Contest winners, born from the collaboration with Roboze. Dive into exclusive events, joining our community of innovators.
Embrace the future of design and become a CoFactory resident for a day: here the boldest ideas take shape.
Designtech
launches Design
Momentum
The design-driven and equity-free acceleration program that fosters the development of innovative and sustainable products and solutions in the field of design, facilitating collaboration between startups and leading in the industry.
The design-driven and equity-free acceleration program that fosters the development of innovative and sustainable products and solutions in the field of design, facilitating collaboration between startups and leading companies in the industry.
esigntech applies
transformative
design to furniture architecture construction real estate
Join us on the tech side of Design
Join Designtech hub to be a leading actor in the industry tech evolution and to envision the future of living. Get involved in the conversation between industry leaders and innovators!
Join Designtech hub to be a leading actor in the industry tech evolution and to envision the future of living. Get involved in the conversation between industry leaders and innovators, accessing an ecosystem of spaces and services that support the development of innovative solutions at the intersection of design and technology.
Mission
Creating a vibrant network of design living spaces, bringing together design brands, creatives and startups to form a dynamic community of innovators.
Vision
Applying a design and innovation driven approach to real estate and exporting our vision from Milan to the rest of the world.
Value
Supporting companies
and startups in the prototyping of cutting-edge solutions, providing resources and facilities to tackle the challenges of future cities and habitats.
Where are we located?
Designtech is located at CoFactory in the Milano Certosa District, the neighbourhood at the centre of a significant sustainable urban regeneration plan. Designtech is also a member of Federated Innovation, the business networking engine to accelerate the innovation creation process at MIND Milano Innovation District.
CoFactory is the headquarter of Designtech, an open urban factory in the heart of Milan. It aims to bring industry back to the city by promoting zero-kilometer production and supporting the development of the local community.
La Forgiatura
The business campus built with a sustainable perspective in the Certosa District. The area that is currently in the midst of a vibrant regeneration project led by Italian real estate development company RealStep.
Become a member
Designtech’s membership gives access to a unique ecosystem dedicated to innovation. The program provides support in the growth and acceleration of innovation processes.
Designtech’s membership gives access to a unique ecosystem dedicated to innovation. Designtech facilitates open and collaborative innovation paths in which members rise to innovation leaders in the industry, opening up to multiple meeting opportunities with startups and technology experts. Within a physical and digital hub, Designtech integrates the offer of coworking and cofactory services and spaces dedicated to the Design Community.
Design living locations
The coworking and cofactory spaces that compose the hub offer startups and companies that are part of the ecosystem concrete opportunities to experiment with new solutions.
The coworking and cofactory spaces that compose the hub are built as living labs and managed directly by Designtech, serving as anchors of real estate redevelopment and urban regeneration operations, offering startups and companies that are part of the ecosystem concrete opportunities to adopt and experiment with new solutions.
CoFactory
The CoFactory represents a hybrid space of approximately 1,500 sqm which hosts an area dedicated to digital fabrication and rapid prototyping integrated with office spaces, laboratories and meeting & training areas.
The CoFactory represents a hybrid space of approximately 1,500 sqm which hosts an area dedicated to digital fabrication and rapid prototyping integrated with office spaces, laboratories and meeting & training areas. It is conceived as an open urban factory where manufacturing startups and scaleups, self-producing designers and makers coexists.
via Polidoro da Caravaggio 30 20156 Milano
C.space
It is the tech lounge dedicated to design thinking sessions, podcast production, private events, team building and more. It represents a connecting space aimed at digital content creation.
C.space is the tech lounge dedicated to design thinking sessions, podcast production, private events, workshops, team building activities, business lunches and more. It represents a connection and meeting space aimed at the creation of digital content, becoming the first on-campus recording studio made available to the business community already based in La Forgiatura.
via Varesina 162
20156 Milano
Our Team
Designtech team brings together professionals with established backgrounds in different fields, with the common goal of building the future of habitats and cities by promoting open innovation programs that accelerate the growth of community members.
Graduated in Management at the Bocconi University of Milan, Ivan is a multifaceted business designer with a passion for visionary ideas that can improve people's lives and stimulate the best version of ourselves.
Graduated in Design with a Master in Marketing for Multimedia at the Politecnico of Milano, she has over 20 years of experience in fostering business innovation and promoting the digitalization of processes.
With a 20-year background in international marketing and communications, he has been regional and national President of Corecom and is now strategic marketing consultant for several major companies.
Graduated in Economics with a Master in Business Administration from SDA Bocconi in Milan, he has an entrepreneurial background of more than 20 years in the fields of Innovation & Innovative Ecosystem Development.
With an established 20-year background in listed multinational companies, Ilario has spent the last 15 years in the high-end bedding industry, first in the role of CFO and later as Managing Director.
Journalist, founder and director of Startupbusiness, the magazine about startups and scaleups. Curator of StartupDigest Italy, advisor to Austrian Business Agency, Fondazione Symbola, Quadrans Foundation,
TechChill Milano.
Entrepreneur with strategic and innovative vision. She joined Designtech with the responsibility of managing the CoFactory project, making the most of over twenty years of experience in the industrial plant sector.
With a master's degree in Spatial Design at Politecnico di Milano and experience in spearheading design and innovation projects, Bahar specializes in managing creative solutions and turning disruptive ideas into reality.
Administrative manager with twenty+ years of experience gained in multinationals. With her invaluable skills she contributes to the organizational growth of Designtech, effectively managing the accounting of the company and its startups.