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... While in the past there were manually created products or only partially with mechanical work (ceramics, glass), intended for practical and utilitarian purposes, and provided with aesthetic qualities (tools, weapons, prehistoric tools, furnishings, etc.), And also many modular elements, partially and even fully standardized, only in our time - that is, after the advent of the industrial revolution - has given the production of objects, shapes, patterns, can be played in series, such as to fulfill, as well as to a practical-utilitarian function, also to a cosmetic. Of the rest of the same utilitarian and functional quotient it is not entirely necessary as an essential component of industrial design. (And it is, indeed, this, one of the most frequent blunders of those who still considers necessary the presence of a functional component to the industrially produced object basis "[1].

The form of Industrial Design aims to provide theoretical and practical knowledge concerning the industrial design and its history, in Italy and abroad, highlighting the cultural and historical context of each object and phenomenon. It also aims to identify the characteristics of the figure of the designer, prince of the governing role, and tools that, from time to time, you can use. This involves analyzing the products and their theories, motives and expressed potentials, innovations and materials. To this end, they will identify some key items of each period and will consist of cards.

The module also aims to follow the universal dictates and demands a global and local level of the industrial design, direct the innovation process and especially in a sustainable product. The tools to do this can only be given from past and present, from the history of design and its contemporary facets. The aim is to encourage culture addressed to the design to bring about a new concept, future, futuristic, contemporary space, of modern life, offering different configurations and different solutions for the same object. Available resources, materials, matter, can become interesting field of experimentation with a view to contemporary sustainability.

[1] G. Dorfles, Introduction to Industrial Design, Small Library Einaudi, publisher Giulio Einaudi, Torino, 1962, 2001, pp.11-12.

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