Polifactory is the brand new makerspace of Politecnico di Milano. It has been created in 2015 by the Department of Design together with the Departments of Mechanics and Electronics, Information and Bioengineering. Polifactory explores the relationship between design and new scenarios of production developing new research and didactical activities and enabling the pre-incubation of advanced products-services systems created by young designers and researchers.
Polifactory presents its activities and ant the results of its first Hackathon on Furniture Interactive involving a peer-to-peer community of designers, makers and furniture companies. the Hackathon is part of the project named "Design From Ideas to Market", funded by the Lombardy Region and Unioncamere with the participation of the Fondazione Politecnico and Incubatore Polihub.