«AIS/Design. Storia e ricerche» n. 6, is dedicated to the theme Designers and Writing in the Twentieth Century and it is the first issue edited by Fiorella Bulegato, Maddalena Dalla Mura and Carlo Vinti.
In recent years we have witnessed a renewed acknowledgement of the value of writing for designers, and the issue of the critical use of writing as related to design and as a design mode has emerged on several levels. Taking the observation of this interest in writing as a point of departure, Issue n. 6 of the magazine intends to reflect on how writing was practised by designers in the twentieth century, and on the many different ways it has been used for both personal and private, operational, theoretical-critical, historic, programmatic, educational and pedagogical purposes...