The course deals with the history of the Industrial Design through the critical-formal reading of everyday objects, their transformations through the ages and the contribution into Design from the world of technology, art and crafts from the late nineteenth century till today.
1. A., BRANZI, Capire il design, Giunti Editore, Firenze 2007
2. M., VITTA, Il progetto della bellezza. Il design fra arte e tecnica 1851-2001, Einaudi editore, Torino 2001.
3. P. BERGAMASCO, V. CROCI, Design in Italia, L’esperienza del quotidiano, A. Colonnetti Libri.
4. R., DE FUSCO, Storia del Design, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1985 (later editions 2001, 2002, 2005).
5. GILLO DORFLES, Introduzione al disegno industriale: linguaggio e storia della produzione di serie, Einaudi Editore, Torino 2001
6. T., MADONADO, T. (1976). Disegno industriale: un riesame. Milano: Feltrinelli (1976 and later editions)
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide a thorough understanding of design theory and history by observing how it has developed in the past and contemporary culture, and what they can now create the conditions for the present and future.
Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons
evaluative tests multiple choice
Compilation of a final processed on format specified by the teacher.
Further information
Particular attention will be given to the structuring of a methodology for critical-historical reading of objects, designers and styles, based on an "open" definition but historical context of the project activity.
Type of Assessment
The exam will be an oral exam, after passing a TEST written multiple choice, (will be considered passed with a score of at least 18/30) and the delivery of a written report agreed with the teacher in class.
The TEST will take place on the morning of the examination.
The written report will be evaluated later in the interview examination, together with the texts assigned as bibliography.
Course program
The lessons will focus on the following topics:
- Definition: design or not design? The aesthetics and art intake, relationship
craft and technique, the current definition assumptions based on constant parameters,
evolution of the term by the first definition of ICSID to date;
- The design of prehistory: the applied arts (by craftsmen artists to designers and architects);
- The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the epiphany of the design: the technical beauty and beauty
the functionality, the great inventions of the nineteenth century, the Victorian house and the industrial city,
the Neo-Gothic style and the Arts and Krafts, Art Nouveau;
- The modern international style: from Art Deco to the artistic avant-garde;
- The Wiener Werkstätte, the Deutsche Werkbund and the Bauhaus, World Expo
Stuttgart in 1927, the Ulm school. The historical avant intake;
- The American design: streamlining and international style;
- Scandinavian design;
- The evolution of the kitchen of the '20s after World War II: American cuisine
and the Frankfurt Kitchen comparing;
- The Italian design: the years between the wars, transport equipment and furnishings,
- The great season of Italian design: the Second World War and the economic boom, the years
sixty, the Radical Design.
- The "Triennali".