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AUTHOR
Viviana Trapani
Multi-disciplinary, Inter-disciplinary, Anti-disciplinary. Transition Knowledges in Design Education
The environmental issues are recently proving to be the center and the connecting element of all the states of crisis, only apparently diversified (energy, political, migration); after the lucid forward-looking analysis of Maldonado in the 70s, the vision proposed in 2019 by the exhibition Broken Nature opens new spaces to the “design hope” activated by design, emphasizing the broad responsibility that the designer must take on contemporary challenges. The complex scenarios of the “transition” (environmental, cultural, productive) are also based on the ability of disciplinary encroachment and on the most radical forms of “anti-disciplinary” innovation, which in some cases opens to design fo…
Design and Culture of the Territory: Ecomuseo del Grano e del Pane in the Salemi Museum System
The article deals with design experimentation in the complex and composite field of design for the culture of the territory, aimed at enhancing the particular resources common to the Mediterranean areas, through an incremental and collaborative design methodology. The town of Salemi (TP) inherited an extraordinary concentration of cultural heritage from its history; in particular the preparation and display of the decorated breads for the Festivity of San Giuseppe, occurring on March 19th, which expresses a profound religiosity and a complex rituality, shared, handed down and recognized as an intan- gible cultural asset to be protected. In this territorial context, a vision aimed at encour-…