"The scandal of society"

Re-readings on Design, Needs and Environment

Abstract

The director of the «AIS/Design Journal», Raimonda Riccini, introduces the three re-readings of this issue on Social Design: Christopher Cornford's speech at the Design for Need. The Social Contribution of Design conference held at the Royal College of Art and the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London from 11 to 14 April 1976; the Ahmedabad Declaration for Industrial Design for Development of 1979 and the interview with Tomàs Maldonado published in the supplement to n. 83 of Alfabeta of April 1986 and entitled Gli scenari della grafica (The scenarios of graphic design) by Giovanni Anceschi, Aldo Colonetti and Gianni Sassi.