Matera in the Seventies: Cooperativa Laboratorio Uno S.r.l.

Design and Education in Southern Italy

Keywords: Material Culture, Education, Mario Cresci, South of Italy, Popular Traditions

Abstract

This research highlights the character and specificity of the teaching experience of Laboratorio Uno held at the end of the Seventies in Matera, under the direction of Mario Cresci. The analysis of the documentation found and testimonies of ex-students highlight the need for a different design training in the South of Italy, different from the ones outlined in existing national and international educational models. Central to the reflection is the role of local material culture, its rituals and the deeper meaning of ordinary objects that represent it.

Author Biographies

Rossana Carullo, Politecnico di Bari

She graduated in architecture in Venice at the Iuav in 1993. She holds a PhD in Architectural Design at the University of Palermo, and a Post-Doctor of Research position in Interior Architecture at Politecnico di Bari. He is currently Associate Professor in Industrial Design at the Dicar Department of the Politecnico di Bari and since 2012 coordinator of the course of Degree in Industrial Design where he teaches since it was founded in 2003. He carries out his research investigating historically, critically and through the project, on the interdisciplinary aspects and on the transversal characters of those disciplines that historically have contributed to the formation of the figure of the designer in Italy in starting from the birth of the schools of architecture in the early 1900s.

Rosa Pagliarulo, Politecnico di Bari

She graduated in 1999 in Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Bari. She holds a PhD in Architectural Design, and a Post-Doctor of Research in Interior Architecture, at the Faculty of Architecture in Bari. She is currently a Researcher in Interior Architecture and Installation at the Dicar Department of the Politecnico di Bari and teaches at the Degree Course in Industrial Design.
Her research and teaching activities develop themes on the relationship between form and construction of the elements of the living space, investigating their qualities from a critical and historical point of view.

Published
2013-10-31
Issue
Vol 1 No 2 (2013): Palimpsests
Section
Micro-histories

Copyright (c) 2013 Rossana Carullo, Rosa Pagliarulo

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