Per una storia della fenomenologia del Design

Elena Dellapiana; Giampiero Bosoni; Jeffrey Schnapp

Elena Dellapiana Politecnico di Torino https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2447-0491
Giampiero Bosoni Politecnico di Milano https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9378-0717
Jeffrey Schnapp Harvard University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4612-3762

Keywords: Design, History, Phenomenology, Languages

Abstract

This issue of “AIS/Design Journal: History and Research”, edited by Giampiero Bosoni, Elena Dellapiana and Jeffrey Schnapp, is the first in the new directorship.
It is a miscellaneous, by-invitation-only issue. Under the umbrella of “Phenomenologies of Design”, it brings together essays that, starting from robust archival foundations of a different nature, agglutinate around the phenomena that make up the definition of design and its languages of reference: semiotics, storytelling, and then product, exhibition design, fashion, graphics, and the protagonists.

Author Biographies

Elena Dellapiana, Politecnico di Torino

Full professor, she teaches History of Architecture and Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin. She is a scholar of the history of architecture, the city and design in the 19th and 20th centuries. Publications include collaboration on the volume Made in Italy: Rethinking a century of Italian design, edited by K. Fallan and G. Lees-Maffei (Bloomsbury, 2013), the monographs Il design della ceramica in Italia 1850-2000 (Electa, 2010), Il design degli architetti italiani 1920-2000 (with F. Bulegato, Electa, 2014), Una storia dell'architettura contemporanea (with G. Montanari, Utet, 2015-2021), Il design e l'invenzione del Made in Italy (Einaudi, 2022).

Giampiero Bosoni, Politecnico di Milano

Full professor of History of Design and Interior Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano.
He has collaborated with Figini and Pollini, Vittorio Gregotti and Enzo Mari, with whom he developed an interest in the theory and history of architecture and design projects. He has written and edited about twenty books and published more than three hundred articles. On behalf of MoMA in New York, he produced the volume Italian Design (2009) dedicated to the Italian section of their collection. President of AIS/Design (2018-2021), from 2022 editor of AIS/Design: History and Research (with E. Dellapiana and J. Schnapp).

Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard University

Jeffrey Schnapp is the founder/director of metaLAB (ad) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He holds the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, but is also a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is currently chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
His many publications range from history to design with a focus on communication and knowledge around the category of Knowledge Design.

For a History of Design Phenomenology

Abstract

Author Biographies