- Docente: Giovanni Leoni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ICAR/18
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giovanni Leoni (Modulo 1) Giovanni Leoni (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Industrial Design (cod. 8182)
Course contents
The course is about the reaction of artistic and architectonic culture to industrial revolution and metropolis with a focus on industrial design between half of the 19th century and the Thirties of 20th century.
The course is organized in twelve 8 hours modules: main overview lesson (3 hours); required exercise (2 hours).
In order to complete the required exercise the student must choose and own an object. During the course the student is asked to analyse the object and make interpretations following the suggestions offered by the lessons. Media and format of the exercise are free.
The student must have a notebook (Moleskine 9x14 or similar) to take notes during lessons and as a draft notebook for the exercise.
The final workshop will consist in a discussion – based also on the notebook - on the course's program starting from the exposed exercises and will lead to final grade.
Module I
John Ruskin: two lights, two truths
Exercise and review
Module II
Happy work: Morris and Arts and Crafts Movement
Exercise and review
Module III
Substantial architecture, transparency, commodity: Crystal Palace
Exercise and review
Module IV
The expressionist object
Exercise and review
Module V
Workshop
Descriptions, images, aesthetics of things, places and designed environments
Stefano Ascari, scriptwriter, Images. Things and environments in graphic novels, comics and design
Exercise and collective review
Module VI
The dadaist object
Exercise and review
Module VII
Workshop
Descriptions, images, aesthetics of things, places and designed environments
Ugo Cornia, writer, Descriptions. Tales of things, places, streets
Module VIII
The futurist object
Exercise and review
Module IX
Exercise review
Module X
The cubist, neoplasticist and constructivist object
Exercise and review
Module XI
Man and technique: Mies meets Guardini
Exercise and review
Module XII
Final workshop
Readings/Bibliography
Bibliography
Books to be studied
M. De Micheli, Le avanguardie artistiche del Novecento, (1988), Feltrinelli, Milano 2007
R. De Fusco, Storia del design, (1985), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2002, cap. I-V
T. Maldonado, Disegno industriale, un riesame, (1991), Feltrinelli, Milano 2008, cap. III-V
M. Vitta, Il progetto della bellezza. Il design fra arte e tecnica dal 1851 a oggi, (2001), Einaudi, Torino 2011, cap. I-VI
Additional readings
B. Munari, Design e comunicazione visiva. Contributo a una metodologia didattica, (1968), Laterza, Roma-Bari 2007
G. Dorfles, Introduzione al disegno industriale, (1972), Einaudi Torino 2001
M. Tafuri, La sfera e il labirinto: avanguardie e architettura da Piranesi agli anni '70, Einaudi, Torino 1980
A. De Martini, R. Losito, F. Rinaldi, Antologia di saggi sul design in quarant'anni di “Op. cit.”, Franco Angeli, Milano 2006
R. Falcinelli, Critica portatile del visual design. Da Gutenberg al social network, Einaudi, Torino 2014Teaching methods
Ex cathedra lessons Multimedia exercises
Assessment methods
The final workshop will consist in a discussion – based also on the notebook - on the course's program starting from the exposed exercises and will lead to final grade.
Teaching tools
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Links to further information
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Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Leoni