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Today’s world is in the midst of a material and immaterial exchange process, one of discussion and synergic use of abilities. This begs the question of what role design could possibly play in these conditions and what procedures should a designer put in place in order to attempt to give plausible answers to the new relationships that connect people and the space they inhabit. Basically, the quality of a space is no longer entrusted solely to its architectural characteristics, but to the management of a more complex system of relationships, between subjects, objects and actions of varying nature. This design is of an investigative nature, which other than providing solutions also and most importantly becomes a tool for reading and knowing reality. In these conditions, instead of binding ourselves to a system of theoretical assumptions and preconceptions, we should implement a new strategy we could describe as curatorial. It is, therefore, necessary to think of a redistribution of roles that contribute to defining a design and the connections between the various skills. This process is one of disintermediation with regards to the role of the designer, no longer seen as the sole mediator between people’s needs and the shaping of space, but instead as part of a more complex dialogue system.
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I am referring to a talk given by Derrick De Kerckhove in April 2016, at the Politecnico di Milano, during the Course I held on Scenography.
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Jeffrey Schnapp is director of the metaLAB at the Harvard University and co-founder and director of the Stanford Humanities Lab for a number of years.
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“game of events”, “psycho-geographical maps”, “ludic-constructive behaviour” are all expressions used by the Situationists. Cf. Debord G, Sanguineti G. I Situazionisti e la loro storia. Rome: manifestolibri; 1999.
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Archizoom, associate studio founded in 1966 by Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello and Massimo Morozzi, later joined by Dario and Lucia Bartolini.
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Quote taken from an interview with Italo Rota published in: Salvadeo P (2001) Progettare gli spazi urbani – Intervista a Italo Rota. In: Poletti R (ed.) Piazze per Milano. Milan: Il Sole 24 Ore, p. 28.
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Peter Galison teaches History of Science and Physics at Harvard University.
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Don Norman is an electrical engineer who graduated from MIT, and later specialised in psychology. He has taught Psychology and Cognitive Science at many universities in the United States, was vice president of the Apple Computer advanced technology research group and director at Hewlett Packard and U Next.
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Edgar Morin, whose real name is Edgar Nahum, is a sociologist and philosopher. He was director of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
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Salvadeo, P. (2020). A Designer’s Role in Inclusive Design Processes. In: Fassi, D., Landoni, P., Piredda, F., Salvadeo, P. (eds) Universities as Drivers of Social Innovation. Research for Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31117-9_3
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