Italian Design: Stories from Museums, Exhibitions and Archives

Keywords: Archives, Design, Exhibition, Museum

Abstract

The third issue of «AIS / Design: History and research», the first monographic of this magazine, is dedicated to the history of Italian design read through the history of museums, exhibitions and archives. These places of mediation are recounted in the various contributions for the role they played in the definition, diffusion and discussion of design in Italy.

Author Biographies

Fiorella Bulegato, Università Iuav di Venezia

A graduate architect and associate professor at the Università Iuav in Venice, in 2006 she earned her PhD in industrial design and architectural technology at the Università di Roma La Sapienza in Rome. From 2010 to 2014, she was a researcher, and from 2012 to 2014 deputy director of the Undergraduate Programme in Industrial Design at the Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino. She has written essays and articles in specialized magazines and has been responsible for the documentary and iconographic research for many exhibitions and publications. Her publications include: Il design degli architetti in Italia, 1920-2000, with E. Dellapiana (Electa, Milano 2014); I musei d’impresa. Dalle arti industriali al design (Carocci, Roma 2008); Michele De Lucchi. Comincia qui e finisce là, with S. Polano (Electa, Milano 2004); the index and complete list of works in the book by S. Polano, Achille Castiglioni tutte le opere 1938–2000 (Electa, Milano 2001).

Maddalena Dalla Mura, Università Iuav di Venezia

She carries out research in the fields of design and graphic design history and museum studies. With an MA in Preservation of Cultural Heritage (2000), in 2010 she received her PhD in Design Sciences from the Università Iuav di Venezia. She has since collaborated with the Design and Museology research group at the same university. From 2012 to 2015 she collaborated on several research projects at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where she has also taught Languages and Theories of Visual Communication. Since 2016/2017 she teaches Design history at the Università degli studi di Ferrara. Previous associate editor of the design history journal «AIS/Design: Storia e Ricerche» (2014-2018).

Published
2014-03-15
Issue
Vol 2 No 3 (2014): Italian Design: Stories from Museums, Exhibitions and Archives
Section
Editorial

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