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Bioledge A Model for Everything A Method for Design|
For my parents Heitor and Clélia and my brothers Neco and Fofo.
Acknowledgements
Bioledge A Model for Everything A Method for Design|
To my Advisor Marco Maiocchi for being available, generous, openhearted and inspiring as well as ensuring this thesis was realized to its fullest potential.
To my parents Heitor Vitor Fralino Sica, Clelia Mendonça Sica and my brother Heitor Vitor Mendonça Fralino Sica for all the support willingly offered for as long as I can remember.
To my dear friends Mirza Sahman, Leunar Miranda, Fanny Montserrat, Giulio Gasperini, Johanna Worton, Roberta Guarragi and Giuseppe Ancona for helping me through each occasional hard time, before and during the development of this thesis.
To Johanna Worton, and Roberta Guarragi for their work and cooperation, revising every page of this paper
To Chiara Pagnoni for all bibliography suggestions and advise
To Francesca Frigo and all the staff of Collegio di Milano for being receptive, enlightening, generous and hospitable during my last two years in Italy. To Patricia Heilbut and Nicodemus Neponuceno Jr. for helping me to grow as a person and a professional.
To Francesca Andrich, without which I could have never started studying at Politecnico di Milano in the first place.
To Jaqueline Schiffer for helping me through difficult personal moments, giving so much and asking so little.
To Roberto Merlini, Daniele Sinibaldi and Jacopo Rodeghiero for receiving me as a cowoker and as a friend while treating me as an equal always.
To Gianluca Brugnoli for compelling me to go on looking for an advisor with whom I would develop a thesis much better than I could have imagined.
