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Empathy between Art and Design
No full textThis short essay delineates the art contest in which the notion of empathy developed between the late 19th and the early 20th century. Explores its meaning as the condition that makes intersubjectivity possible in Husserlian Phenomenology, especially in Edith Stein’s interpretation. It provides clues to understand the reasons that brought design culture focusing on empathy from the late 1990s onward. The increase of the participatory approach in design processes puts intersubjectivity – and therefore empathy – at the centre of any design practice.
Since Alice Devecchi, the author of the book in which the essay appears, focuses on empathy or, more precisely, on designing the empathic experience, the text provides comments and clues about the contest, the approach and the outcomes of her work – primarily focusing on the relevance of the arts as a means to increase design knowledge, an approach to research that Devecchi shares with the author, who also was the supervisor of her PhD thesis
Notes on Doctoral Research in Design. Contributions from the Politecnico di Milano
No full textThe Politecnico di Milano was among the first universities in Italy to start a PhD programme in Industrial design in 1990. During twenty years the research activity has strengthened the disciplinary core of design, has specified the methodological aspects and theory, while the topics of research were gradually expanded to those new fields that design was embracing, such as sustainability, services and interface design. In 2008 the programme – now PhD in Design – focused its attention on the nature of design, with its aesthetic, formal, performance and meaning values. In this respect the challenge has become to reconsider design activity, notably that related to practice, as the centre of investigation.
The book (edited by the author) collects the first results of this new direction of research. Most of the contributions for the book have been written on the occasion of the PhD Opening Ceremony, held at the Politecnico in March 2010 and focused on the relations between Design and Science.
The essay by the author, entitled “A cultural shift: the role of Italian design in the doctoral programme approach”, briefly summarises a forty-year debate on this topic, focusing its attention on two concepts both defined from mid ’70s onward: that of “wicked problems” as typical of design process (Rittel and Weber, Schön, Buchanan) and that of a “designerly way of thinking”, as an autonomous way of thinking distinct from that of science and the humanities (Archer, Cross).
Following the debate on these concepts, similarities can be recognised among them and some of the main features of Italian tradition, notably that of a “critical” approach to design, a way of thinking that can be invigorated and renewed within a PhD programme
Crolla un "muro". In soggiorno una società fluida
No full textLe trasformazioni dello spazio-soggiorno nell’abitazione contemporanea si confrontano con l’eredità funzionalista del secolo scorso suggerendo spunti di riflessione sulle nuove forme di socialità domestica
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