Suchergebnisse

The focus on the explorative and uncodified phase of the design process, the innovation potential, the role of the design practice as a mediator among external factors, the research framework and the new cultural "products" are strong elements of the Advanced Design approach that can be recognised in two experiences of applied research: R.E.I.L. (Register of Intangible Heritage of Lombardy) and E.CH.I. (Ethnographies Italo-Swiss for the valorisation of the intangible heritage of the italian-swiss border). The cultural politics of the public authorites involved have been an opportunity to test the process of "territorial design" as a creative process aimed at producing a series of actions oriented to increasing the local development. Particular attention has been paid to the intangible cultural heritage as an expression of knowledge and values (symbolic-ritual) of the local communities that over time has implemented creative strategies for the enhancement of its identity. This paper faces the topic of the valorisation of the territorial identity and explains the two research projects mentioned before. It enters into the merits of the several levels and scales of intervention.

This open access book gathers the contributions from the Design! OPEN International Conference, held in Parma, Italy in May 2022. The conference explored the multidisciplinary aspects of design starting from its dimensions: objects (design as focused on the object, on its functional and symbolic dimension, and at the same time on the object as a tool for representing cultures), processes (the designer's self-reflective moment which is focused on the analysis and on the definition of processes in various contexts, spanning innovation, social engagement, reflection on emergencies or forecasting), experiences (design as a theoretical and practical strategy aimed at facilitating experiential interactions among people, people and objects or environments), and narratives (making history, representing through different media, archiving, narrating, and exhibiting design). The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.