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  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 81 (2023)

    The Open Debate section of this issue focuses on the complexity of Culture and Creativity ecosystems in terms of relations, economic aspects, social issues and technological evolution, which are experiencing multiple and unpredictable dynamics. We are interested in focusing attention on the contribution that the cultures and practices of design lend to this phenomenon, and how the bond between design, culture and creativity, in Europe, is indivisible.

    The ninth Knowledge and Innovation Community of the EIT dedicated to Culture and Creativity is the European infrastructure devoted to unlocking the value generated by small players and large organisations and institutions in different fields (design, audio-visual, deep-tech, fashion, etc.), as an indispensable part of the European Innovation Ecosystem.

    This issue expands the field of reflection and action previously set out in issue no. 73 of diid, with the aim of highlighting the impact that embedding culture and creativity generates in the various domains of innovation at the European scale. 

    Education, innovation, futures, the connection between art and technology are the spheres explored by the different contributions with the aim of supporting the hybridisation and cross-fertilisation between knowledge and between sectors in a transformative world.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. DSI 1 (2023)

    The 8th International Forum of Design as a Process, themed “Disrupting Geographies in the Design World” was held in Bologna from 20 to 22 June 2022. The event was organised by the Advanced Design Unit of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Department of Architecture, in collaboration with two partner universities: Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC) and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The Forum engaged speakers from the Global Design community, expanding the original vocation of the Latin Network for the Development of Design as a Process to include researchers and designers of the Mediterranean Area, Middle East, IOR (Indian Ocean Region), and Global South regions. The goal was to share new perspectives on imagining design futures in a responsible and just perspective, at the forefront of change, while building strategic partnerships and creating accessible knowledge. Structured around three pillars — seminars, workshops, and exhibitions — the Forum hosted meetings, reflection opportunities, networking activities. It involved designers, scholars, young researchers, design entrepreneurs, in an experimental format. Speakers’ contributions not only inspired the practices of the designers’ community, but also resonated with students and the broad audiences.

    The presentations explored intersections of materiality and culture, post-coloniality, decoloniality, gender studies, and other areas of human thought and action which seek to analyse, question and challenge the disruptive geographies in the world, today. The papers submitted to the five tracks proposed are published in the Digital Special Issue 1 of diid. disegno industriale – industrial design, celebrating during those days its 20th anniversary and serving as the fourth partner of the event.

    The Editors
    Erik Ciravegna, Elena Formia, Valentina Gianfrate, Andreas Sicklinger, Michele Zannoni

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 80 (2023)

    In the nexus of design and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the convergence of ethical, political, and creative facets demands a decentralized approach guided by data justice and posthumanism. As AI’s reach expands into societal and environmental spheres, the imperative is not neutral but deeply entangled with socio-political contexts and power structures. The shift from tech-centricity to collective needs dovetails with the urgency for non-anthropocentric design, particularly with autonomous agents. This global perspective challenges “for good” narratives and raises questions about digital colonialism, while artistic experiments redefine the boundaries of creativity and aesthetics, compelling a holistic reevaluation of design’s role in AI’s multifaceted impact.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 79 (2023)

    This issue focuses attention on circularity and sustainability in the design process. It does so by casting light on the Packaging System that we have taken as a paradigm for the system of contemporary commodities because it is the sum total of everything that is designed around the commercial commodity in order to unleash its potential exploitable value. Tatjana Karpenja and Clara Giardina, who bring with them different backgrounds and sensibilities, accompany us through this journey with vertical investigations, highlighting the state of research at the various international, European and Italian national scales, where an alliance is being formed between all the most prestigious universities that have invested in these themes.

    Meanwhile diid’s journey of evolution continues, expanding the number of colleagues who from around the world support us in our Scientific Board, seeking to grow together and to cultivate the scientific conscience of our contemporary design cultures.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 78 (2022)

    At the turning point of the first two years under the new direction, diid entrusted Eleonora Lupo with the task of guiding us through the Open Debate of issue No. 78, on the evolution and potential of scientific writing in the field of design. The Journal seeks to focus on the transformation of design within the complexity of the Anthropocene, the social, ecological, and technological transition, especially in a processual and systemic key. We highlight products, tools, and key players in the contemporary sectoral debate. All of this while trying to force boundaries and sometimes overstepping them and remaining aware that the prescriptive limits of scientific fields are historically determined and constantly evolving constructions.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 77 (2022)

    The Open Debate section in issue No. 77 features a selection, curated by professors Erik Ciravegna, Valentina Gianfrate, Roberto Iñiguez Flores, and Laura Succini, of the most interesting and innovative works presented at the 8th International Forum of Designas a Process “Disrupting Geographies in the Design World” held in Bologna in June 2022. 
    It has been 15 years since the constitution of the Carta di Torino Manifesto and the foundation of the Latin Network for the Development of Design Processes.
    15 years of intense effort to promote the culture of systems and processes as a “different scientific outlook” compared to the culture of the industrial product destined to the capitalist consumer market.

    Emptiness is just as important as fullness
    (Salvatore Iaconesi, NOT Nero, May 2002).

    This issue is also dedicated to the memory of Salvatore Iaconesi (1973-2022), remembering and valuing the rich heritage of art, beauty, thoughts, words and actions that represent the fullness that remains after his departure. The design community rallies around Oriana Persico with the aim of generating new rituals for the contemporary human beings.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 76 (2022)

    There is a different tradition in design that we have learned to know through the application of ethnography, anthropology, natural studies, climate studies and the study of complex social relations. This tradition flows like a river underground and occasionally rises to the surface carrying with it profound results that help us to understand design reality. What we are studying in issue number 76 of diid is a subterranean river that requires scrupulous and attentive researchers with uncommon delicacy and sensitivity to discover, understand and scientifically convey the phenomena that derive from it.

    We are quite far from a quantitative and experimental performance analysis, from historical research in the archives, the phenomenology of the user’s analysis and the use of the sophisticated technologies that enable the contemporary designer. Here the discussion is about how form, function, value and meaning retreat from market logic yet transform the behaviour and structure of society or individuals in a global and contemporary manner through the cultures of design and its practices. 

    Paolo Cardini has orchestrated this observation by highlighting a community of researchers who are studying and applying these themes at the intercontinental level, and with the awe-struck curiosity of children we remain drawn to and pensive before the array of images that illustrate this issue.

    Flaviani Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 75 (2021)

    The guest editor for this issue No. 75 guides us through the Galaxy of Design Research into the international debate with eminent figures who help us, as if we were at a telescope on a spaceship flying through astral space, to plot routes, establish certain points, set goals, in a horizon that the scientists of anticipation call T2, in the contemporary era but just a little beyond, to become aware of the direction we are moving in.

    A heartfelt thanks goes to the design community which responded to our call by submitting over 110 scientific products so far from a total of 142 authors. Many more than we were expecting and that, in the best of cases, we will be able to spotlight, but which bear witness to the need to open the scientific debate at the international level and to do so within the rules of the scientific community.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 74 (2021)

    The protagonist of the Open Debate section of issue No. 74 is the human body. We are interested in exploring the relationship between the human and artificial body through design cultures and practices. Within this field where human and machine merge, we are interested in achieving the interaction between human beings through machines and artifacts.

    As Advanced Design Unit of the Università di Bologna, we have been exploring this area by organizing the Future Design Human Body Interaction international Symposium, which featured the main scientific event in June 2021.

    Flaviano Celaschi

  • diid disegno industriale industrial design
    No. 73 (2021)

    Dedicating ourselves to this Journal does not represent a new adventure, since diid disegno industriale — industrial design has been in existence for twenty years and has come a long way. A path that proceeds, outside the national borders, to make this Journal be read and appreciated by a wider public, through codes and models belonging to the international scientific community. A pro­cess pursued through appropriate indexing, always insisting on the requirements that qualifies it as a Journal intended for the interna­tional community of researchers, scholars and design experts.

    Starting from the tradition of diid Journal, my aim is to find a way to welcome the best international scientific contributions, without abandoning the debate on those cultures that design em­bodies and without which it would have remained only a system of practices.

    Flaviano Celaschi