Invention in design means putting into practice a technical/scientific idea that is the result of ingenuity. But it is also the pure capacity for imagination, capable of «altering the sensibility of the human race» (Kubler, 1962), acting as much upon the product’s functions as upon the meaning.
This book collects in a revised form a series of short essays written and published by the author between 2013 and 2017, as the editor of the Rassegna Section in Domus. Contents are organized into homogeneous thematic clusters, ranging from design to technology, concept, languages and production. In the 1970s, Manfredo Tafuri’s renowned essay entitled Architecture and Utopia made an important contribution to defining - in a sort of manifesto - the role of design within society.
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