The Sapienza Design Research SDR Interdepartmental Center is a place of excellence for research and experimentation in the field of Design for Technological and Social Innovation.
The research object of the Sapienza Design Research Interdepartmental Center is the rethinking of the social, economic and environmental impact of production and consumption processes and the development of real innovation that is at the service of the production and institutional system.
In this sense, SDR is the only Interdepartmental Center currently active in the National University System with these aims.

In both the national and international contexts, Design, while constituting itself on the convergence of different disciplinary contributions, has acquired an advanced level of skills, an autonomous system of skills and, above all, strategic recognition by the social, productive and economic system.
The disciplinary contributions constituting, from the most typical of the project of artefacts to those of the "belt" of physical and virtual representation, of materials technology and production processes, of social sciences and communication, and again of management and marketing, have determined that disciplinary wealth of Design which makes it recognized as one of the fundamental Key-Knowledge for the construction and development of present and above all future societies.
In this particular moment of social, cultural, economic revision, which consequently also affects the training and research system, many parts of the world are focusing on Design and in particular on the development, in different forms, of research centers. specialized and advanced that propose themselves not only as a forge of new knowledge but also as subjects appointed to develop synergies with the system of institutions and the entrepreneurial and professional world.