Sguardi sul design contemporaneo

Words and images of 12 designers who changed design.

A new series of interviews, dedicated to prominent figures in the world of culture and conceived as a multi-voice reasoning conducted by the editor together with the interviewed authors on the most topical issues. Fulvio Irace, Matteo Vercelloni and Demetrio Paparoni are in charge of the first three volumes, focusing respectively on architecture, design and artists.
In this volume dedicated to design, Matteo Vercelloni reflects, together with twelve of the most influential designers on the international scene, on the developments of the discipline, touching on topics of pungent relevance such as the dematerialization of objects, digital design, the idea of the product as an active element in a relationship not only utilitarian, but emotional and affective, with its user; the new relationship we are experiencing with the spaces of living, conditioned by the irruption of the pandemic, which has acted as an accelerator of deep trends, already latent in contemporary design.
Discussed with the author are Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Michele De Lucchi, Stefano Giovannoni, Patricia Urquiola, Ross Lovegrove, and Antonio Citterio, among others.

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Matteo Vercelloni, architect and designer, teaches History of Design at Polidesign (Polytechnic, Design of Milan); he also teaches at NABA, ISAD, IED and the Brera Academy of Arts in Milan. He regularly collaborates with some of the leading architecture and design magazines such as “Abitare,” “Domus,” “D-Donna,” and “Casabella”; since 2000, he has been an editorial consultant for “INTERNI” magazine. He is the author of numerous publications on design, including Breve Storia del Design Italiano (2008) and, for 24ORE Cultura, monographs on Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Piero Lissoni in the series “Maestri del Design” (2011).