From the remote control to the city, television has represented and continues to represent, even in its recent digital hybridizations, a “symbolic form” with which twentieth-century design culture has experimented multiple and complex paths, still little investigated by international historiography.

Against the background of classic and contemporary studies on television, this issue of “AisDesign Journal” collects original and in-depth perspectives, providing a historiographical contribution on a topic that is still largely unexplored.