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The Déjà Vu Revolution
No full textIl saggio propone un excursus storico-critico che, a partire da alcuni caratteri della postmodernità quali la perdita di una visione prevalente, la delegittimazione delle grandi narrazioni e l’affermarsi di un pensiero debole, prova a rileggere in chiave progettuale questa proliferazione di tendenze molteplici.
Se la contemporaneità è una somma di differenze che convivono, quasi a rappresentare una costellazione di “ismi”, il progetto della post-modernità si riconosce, infatti, nella capacità di farle coesistere insieme.
La postmodernità guarda alla storia con un occhio disincantato rispetto a quanto avveniva in passato: non contraddice i modelli precedenti per costruire nuovi modelli e nuove visioni che si basano sulla loro confutazione, ma si rivolge al passato con un approccio “manieristico”, utilizzando l’estetica della citazione e del riuso. Non si adotta un’unica corrente a cui si fa riferimento e da cui si “estrapola” e si “copia”, ma si costruisce una sorta di collage: il passato, il presente e il futuro prossimo sembrano così mescolarsi, trovando in tale interconnessione una nuova sintesi progettuale.
In questo panorama in cui vale tutto e il contrario di tutto, una metafora narrativa potrebbe essere quella del "collezionismo": il collezionismo trova ora fondamento in un infinito repertorio liberamente sovrapponibile e il "nuovo" risiede proprio nella capacità di "coesistenza del molteplice".
In questo senso la Rivoluzione del déjà vu sottolinea proprio la visionarietà di questo sguardo, d'insieme e caleidoscopico, che valorizza e reinterpreta ogni frammento di eredità
CampUS: co-designing spaces for urban agriculture with local communities
No full textThis paper aims at gaining insights and reasoning on social innovation-based experimentations developed within the research project “campUS. Incubation and settings for social practices” – at the Politecnico di Milano. The project is acting for a virtuous relation between university spaces and competence, and the local context in which they are located.
The authors start analysing the theoretical basis of participatory action research, its application in the research process and the re ective perspective of community-centered design approach supporting design activism for
urban territories (social and spatial context). The paper focuses on the issues
of urban agriculture developed speci cally within the research project and more widely by the research team in general. It examines the design strategy, methodologies and impact, in terms of social innovation, of two experiments carried out in a nursery school and a middle school in Milan - zone 9. These were project-based experiments connected to speci c contexts and goals; they were a step forward in a process working towards infrastructuring: “a
more open-ended long term process where diverse stakeholders can innovate together”. (Hillgren, Seravalli, & Emilson, 2011). At the nal consideration stage, almost at the end of the project, the authors re ect upon future steps to take in terms of outcomes and in terms of process development, starting by analysing the achievements and failures of the experiments. How can the experience gained in this and in previous research-actions on community-centred design for social innovation lead to a more strategic approach to developing urban territories through di used hubs supporting communities
Proceedings of the Cumulus Milano 2015 Conference – The Virtuous Circle. Design Culture and Experimentation
No full textDesign comes out of the interaction between a practice, which seeks to change the state of things, and a culture, which makes sense of this change. The way this happens evolves with time: practices and cultures evolve and so do the ways they interact; and the attention that is paid at different moments to one or other of these interacting polarities also evolves. In the current period of turbulent transformation of society and the economy, it is important to go back and reflect on the cultural dimension of design, its capacity to produce not only solutions but also meanings, and its relations with pragmatic aspects. Good design does not limit itself to tackling functional and technological questions, but it also always adopts a specific cultural approach that emerges, takes shape and changes direction through a continuous circle of experimenting and reflecting. Because the dimension and complexity of the problems is growing, it is becoming evident that to overcome them it is, above all, necessary to bring new sense systems into play. This is ground on which design, by its very nature, can do much. Indeed, the ability to create a virtuous circle between culture and practical experimentation is, or should be, its main and distinctive characteristic. However, for this really to happen it is necessary to trigger new discussion and reflection about the nature and purpose of design practice and culture
Design and Culture of the Territory: Ecomuseo del Grano e del Pane in the Salemi Museum System
Full text linkThe article deals with design experimentation in the complex and composite field of design for the culture of the territory, aimed at enhancing the particular resources common to the Mediterranean areas, through an incremental and collaborative design methodology. The town of Salemi (TP) inherited an extraordinary concentration of cultural heritage from its history; in particular the preparation and display of the decorated breads for the Festivity of San Giuseppe, occurring on March 19th, which expresses a profound religiosity and a complex rituality, shared, handed down and recognized as an intangible cultural asset to be protected. In this territorial context, a vision aimed at encouraging increasingly wider cultural and tourist growth and interested in the quality of experience has led to the design elaboration and realization of an Ecomuseo del Grano e del Pane. This is an experimentation articulated through meetings with the various territorial actors, gathering experiences and testimonies, and laboratory activities. Together with the description of the project outcome, the article intends to describe and analyze the intertwining of the many aspects that have structured the design process, based on a multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary approach “necessary” for cultural elaboration and looking at design as a multidimensional and relational discipline
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