L’industria italiana “design based” e le case mobili Fiat per l’esposizione al MoMA del 1972
Abstract
This paper addresses through a general historical analysis what was the contribution to Italian economic development of the companies involved in the exhibition “Italy: New domestic landscape” held at the MoMA of New York in 1972, within the horizon of the Industrial Planning of 1971-75.
The spokesperson for critical instances of this development plan was the industrial policy expert Ruggero Cominotti, who appealed to Italian designers to empower their contribution to the social change that was looming as a consequence of the Italian economic crisis. Designers answered to the call also designing prototypes which were offering solutions to the problems of mobility and habitability. Therefore, the second part of the paper turns to the specific case of Fiat, to its support for the exhibition through the financing of projects related to the Mobile Home theme, trying to reconstruct also some of the developments of this collaboration, which occurred in the years immediately following the American exhibition.
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