Personal identification

Full name

Elisa Bertolotti

Citation names

• Bertolotti, Elisa

Author identifiers

Ciência ID

3619-2367-D46E

ORCID iD

0000-0002-3942-8659

	Degree	Classification
2008/01/03 - 2012/03/16 Concluded	PhD in Design and Multimedia Communication (Dottorato di Ricerca) Politecnico di Milano, Italy "Experiences from contemporary animation for audiovisual design.Techniques, process and production" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
1998/10/01 - 2004/03/16 Concluded	Disegno Industriale (Master Universitario) Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/06/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
	Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
2016/10/09 - 2023/06/01	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
	Universidade da Madeira, Portugal

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/10/01 - 2024/10/01	SMOTIES – Creative works with small and remote places 616780 Researcher	Ongoing
2020 - 2023	DC4DM - Digital Creativity for developing Digital Maturity future skills 2020-1-IT02-KA203- 079913 Researcher Politecnico di Milano, Italy	Concluded
2014/10/01 - 2016/10/01	CampUs 111111111 Post-doc Politecnico di Milano, Italy	Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Unidade ID+ (Instituto de Investigação em Design, Media e Cultura) UID/DES/04057/2019 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Publications

Book chapter	Chiara Nifosì; elisa bertolotti; Cristina Renzoni; Noemi Satta. "Learning and knowing a territory through walking and exploration: design tools and approaches in dialogue with other sciences". In The Story of Creative Works with Ten Small Communities. 2024. 10.1515/9783035629132 Bertolotti, Elisa; Chiara Nifosì; Cristina Renzoni; Noemi Satta. "Learning and knowing a territory through walking and exploration: design tools and approaches in dialogue with other sciences". In Creative works with small and remote places, edited by Davide Fassi; Annalinda De Rosa; Inge Eller; M. Dumiak. Birkhäuser, 2024. De Luca, Vanessa; Bertolotti, Elisa. "Experiencing Design Fieldwork: Walking Interviews on Madeira Island". In Advances in Design and Digital Communication IV. DIGICOM 2023. Springer Series in Design and Innovation, edited by BRANDÃO, ANDRÉ. Springer, 2023. Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-47281-7_58 Gonzaga, Susana; Bertolotti, Elisa; Abreu, Patrícia. Corresponding author: Gonzaga, Susana. "Creative works in remote places, 5 Portuguese case Studies". In Creative works in small and remote places: European best practices exploration. Slovenia: Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS), 2022. Bertolotti, Elisa. "Local communities have stories to tell: storytelling for social inclusion". In Universities as Drivers of Social Innovation, edited by Francesca Piredda; Davide Fassi; Paolo Landoni. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019. Published Bertolotti, Elisa. "Practicing Languages: Designing Tools and Techniques for Self-representation and Self-reflection". In Universities as Drivers of Social Innovation, edited by Francesca Piredda; Paolo Landoni; Davide Fassi, 209-219. Springer International Publishing, 2019. Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-31117-9_14 Bertolotti, Elisa. "Svelare i meccanismi, aprire le storie. L’animazione racconta i propri processi". In Narrativa d’impresa. Per essere ed essere visti, edited by Matrone, M.; Davide Pinardi. Milan, Italy: Franco Angeli, 2012. Published
Conference abstract	De Luca, Vanessa; Bertolotti, Elisa. "Walking in the gaps. Design and ecocultural trajectories in Madeira Island through walking interviews". Paper presented in 8th International Forum Design as a Process “Disrupting Geographies in the Design World”., Bologna, 2022. Bertolotti, Elisa. "Doing animation today. An ethnographic research on the animators practice". Paper presented in “The Animator”- 26th Society of Animation StudiesAnnual Conference, Toronto, 2014. Published
Conference paper	Bertolotti, Elisa; Vezzani, Valentina. "Walk, talk and draw: Fieldwork in nature to unpack the complexities of sustainability". Paper presented in 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, 2021. Published Bertolotti, Elisa; Virginia Tassinari. "Experiments in the co-creation of “theatres” for social innovation. A reading through the lens of Hannah Arendt". Paper presented in Nordes DESIGN + POWER / 7th Nordic Design Research Conference, Oslo, 2017. Bertolotti, Elisa; Virgina Tassinari. "Designing states of exceptions.The co-creation of “theatres” for social innovation.". Paper presented in DRS 2016 - Design Research Society - Future Focused Thinking, Brighton, 2016. Published Bertolotti, Elisa; Francesca Piredda; Virginia Tassinari; Heather Daam. "Telling the stories of design for social innovation: from a speculative time to a time of poetry.". Paper presented in The virtuous Circle - Cumulus Conference, Politecnico di Milan - www.cumulusmilan2015.org, Milan, 2015. Published
Edited book	Bertolotti, Elisa; Virginia Tassinari; Heather Daam; Francesca Piredda; Walter Mattana; Ezio Manzini; Mika ‘Lumi’ Tuomola; et al, ed. Pearl Diver. The Designer as Storyteller. DESIS Philosophy Talks: storytelling and design for social innovation. Milan, Italy: DESIS Network publication. 2016. Published • Editor
Journal article	Elisa Bertolotti; Anca Serbanescu. "‘1 Question 10 Answers’". Convergences - Journal of Research and Arts Education (2022): https://doi.org/10.53681/c1514225187514391s.29.84. 10.53681/c1514225187514391s.29.84 Bertolotti, Elisa; Serbanescu, Anca. Corresponding author: Bertolotti, Elisa. "1 Question 10 Answers’. An exercise to examine methods of non-fiction story-making and processes of interpretation". Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes (Convergences – Journal of Research and Arts Education) 15 (2022): 21-39. http://convergencias.esart.ipcb.pt. Published Bertolotti, Elisa. Corresponding author: Bertolotti, Elisa. "Playing with time and limits. Experiencing Ursula Ferrara’s animation process". PAD - Pages on Art and Design 13 (2020): 45-69. https://www.padjournal.net/. Open access Vezzani, Valentina; Gonzaga, Susana; Bertolotti, Elisa. "Atlantic Wonder. Exploring Nature and Design in Madeira island". The Design Journal 22 sup1 (2019): 1603-1617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2019.1594994. 10.1080/14606925.2019.1594994 Bertolotti, Elisa; Simona Venditti; Francesca Piredda. "Masters of Ceremonies.A Design Approach to Community-Filmmaking". The Design Journal 20 sup I (2017): http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfdj20/20/sup1?nav=tocList.. Published Bertolotti, Elisa. "Black humor meets light line. Mario Addis’ animation journey". Animation Journal 25 (2017): 78-81. www. animationjournal.com.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance

Virginia Tassinari; Nik Baerten; L. Huybrechts. 2020. 2030 International RHIZomatic Assembly (IRHIZA). 16th Participatory Design Conference PDC2020 – Participation(s) otherwise. Manizales, Colombia.