Dezeen School Shows: an interiors scheme that uses AI and scent to help ease symptoms of Dementia is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Istituto Europeo di Design.
Also included is an adaptive reuse project that turns a former slaughterhouse in Rome into an educational centre and a space designed to connect local people with traditional Catalan culture and food.

Istituto Europeo di Design (IED)
Institution: Istituto Europeo di Design (IED)

School: Design School

Course: Interior Design

Tutors: Ignasi Bonjoch (IED Barcelona), Adelaide Testa (IED Torino), Federica Bosoni (IED Milano), Marco Provinciali (IED Roma), Javier de Ferrari (IED Firenze) and Maurizio Bosa (IED Cagliari)
School statement: "The principle of human-centred design is challenged by a new paradigm in which, from the centre of the world, the human becomes one among multiple components of an ecosystem.
"Humans, nature and technology are the components of this ecosystem and their multiple interactions generate the fields of investigation of the design of the future.
"From objects to services, from spaces to experiences, from vehicles to mobility, this transition is immaterial and unstoppable.
"Technologies in our school are an expressive medium and a tool for designing. They must also become the object of critical thinking to understand their limits and implications for the way we look at reality and relate to it, to our creative capacity, logics of power, hazards to ...