How to Discover
SYLLABUS
An interest in discovering and learning about Italian Design. A passion for research and a desire to organize, present, and disseminate research acquired through the course in a visual website. (...)
How to Discover the Italian Design
Professor James Postell
1958
NINE ACTORS WITHIN A UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT DESIGN CULTURE
Italian Design From the Inside-out
American
Dipartimentio di Design, Politecnico Di Milano
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1983-84 Masters of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1976-82 Bachelor of Architecture, Rice University, Houston, TX
Texas Tech University, College of Architecture, Assistant Prof 1984-87
University of Cincinnati 1987-2019 Assistant - Full Prof, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
DKDS Copenhagen, Furniture and Space Design - visiting scholar 2005
Politecnico School of Design, visiting senior researcher 2017
Politecnico School of Design, Associate Professor, Product Design 2019-Present
The sheer number of Italian furniture companies along with their enormous capacity for production is a formidable reality. There are currently over 33,000 factories producing furniture in Italy employing over 200,000 people. According to Promosedia, an organization that promotes the sale and distribution of chair designs from the province of Friuli in Northern Italy, half of the total number of chairs produced in Europe today is made in Italy. Of those produced in Italy, approximately 65% are made in Friuli, 25% are made in Brianza, a geographic region north of Milan, and the remaining 10% scattered throughout the boot. The Size of this industry has been achieved in part as a result of increases in production during the seventies which saw production sky-rocket, mainly due to increased exports. Exports grew from 74 billion lire in 1970 to 1,855 billion in 1980 and reached a staggering 6000 billion in 1990. (...)
Playing guitar, (acoustic and electric), learning Italian, hiking, watching movies
PIERO BASSETTI
"ITALICITY"
The first question is: why speak of "Italic peoples" rather than in the more usual and traditional term "Italians"; what distinguishes the concept of "Italic peoples" from that of "Italians"? (...)