Unit HISTORY OF DESIGN
- Course
- Design
- Study-unit Code
- A000269
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Aldo Iori
- Teachers
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- Aldo Iori
- Hours
- 54 ore - Aldo Iori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Formazione umanistica
- Academic discipline
- ICAR/18
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is organized into lessons in History of Design in which the main events that led to the formation of the modern design concept will be analyzed: international exhibitions, designers, schools and industrial production. Particular attention will be given to the Italian reality and to the formation of a critical thought that conceives design in relation with different artistic forms and defines concepts such as crafts, industry, copy, multiple, similarity, synergy and multimedia.
- Reference texts
- . De Fusco, Storia del design, Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998 ; M. Vitta, Il progetto della bellezza. Il design fra arte e tecnica dal oggi, Einaudi, Torino 2011 ; B. Munari, Da cosa nasce cosa. Appunti per una metodologia progettuale, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017 ; C. Alessi, Dopo gli anni Zero. Il nuovo design italiano, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2014 ; C. Cecchini, Le parole design. 150 lemmi tecnici liberamente scelti, LISt, Trento 2014 ; F. Irace, a cura di, Storie d’interni. L’architettura dello spazio domestico moderno, Carocci, Roma 2015 ; B. Munari, Arte come mestiere, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017 ; D. Norman, La caffettiera masochista. Il design degli oggetti quotidiani, Giunti, Firenze-Milano 2015 ; T. Maldonado, Disegno industriale: un riesame, Feltrinelli, Milano 2013 ; H. Foster, Design & Crime, Postmediabooks, Milano 2003 ; W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Einaudi, Torino 1966
- Educational objectives
- The purpose of the course is to achieve a critical awareness of the historical phenomenon of design. This will be formed through the specific knowledge of the links between the so-called major arts and minor arts, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention to the birth of industrial design and its presence in the current Italian and international reality, and the reflection on the close relationship between history, form, space, thought and functionality.
- Prerequisites
- General knowledge of the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Teaching methods
- The teaching is divided into theoretical lessons, theoretical-applicative exercises and possible study visits.
- Other information
- The students have all the images and texts used in the theoretical lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- An oral exam verifies the knowledge of the topics of the lessons and the student presents to the commission an original text, unpublished and accompanied by bibliography and possible real observations, about a specific aspect of the course first agreed with the professor.
- Extended program
- - Definition of the concept of design and its specificity. - Problems about the concepts of tradition, model, prototype, copy, project design, production, decoration and style. - The object and its technical reproducibility. - Definitions, terminologies and concepts in the History of design. - The main design theories in A.Loos, M.Van der Rohe, W.Gius, Le Corbusier, B.Munari, G.Dorfles, T.Maldonado. - Relations between the arts and the new schools and traditions in the 19th century. - The new arts of twentieth century and their relationship with design. - The classical and Middle-Age past in industrial culture and post-Enlightenment between utopia and the future. - William Morris's experience in Great Britain. - The historical avant-gardes in France and in Russia and the new problems concerning the object. - Industrialization and the definition of the consumer object for the people in the experience in the Wiener Werkstätte and the Werkbund. - The multidisciplinary experience in the Bauhaus and subsequent schools. - The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925. - Industrialization and new relationship between the form and the function in United States industrial design in the first half of the 20th century. - Italian industrial design in the first half of the 20th century. - New technologies and innovative modern materials. - The exhibition of Italian design at the MoMA in New York in 1972. - Main Italian designers after World War II. - Graphics, advertising and packaging. - New definitions of contemporary design in the