In May 2010, a workshop on the languages of visual communication was organised for the degree course in Design e Comunicazione (Design and Communication) at the Luigi Vanvitelli Faculty of Architecture of the Second University of Naples. The workshop was coordinated by Alessandra Cirafici and Daniela Piscitelli, together with the visiting professor Lucille Tenazas, who teaches at the Parson The New School of design in New York. The research and design work involved a group of students from different cultural backgrounds and of different nationalities and revolved around the concept of ‘loss’; this regarded both the loss of material goods and property but also, and above all, the loss of identity and memory. In this sense, the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo region in 2009 and the total destruction of the historical centre of the city of l’Aquila represented a concrete opportunity to assess the capacity of design to promote actions of collective consciousness and strategies to work through the emotional loss of memory and identity, linked to situations of alienation and unease caused by the total destruction of significant pieces of people’s pasts. The possibility of comparing sensitivities that had developed in different cultural settings of a clearly transnational nature undoubtedly added to the interest of the project. The students were guided during the careful and sensitive work , enabling them to define poetics and narrative strategies that achieved an intense expressive level where the theme of ‘loss’ was worked through and reinterpreted as a design project.

After loss Design prevals. Ethic Approach in Graphic design

CIRAFICI, Alessandra

Abstract

In May 2010, a workshop on the languages of visual communication was organised for the degree course in Design e Comunicazione (Design and Communication) at the Luigi Vanvitelli Faculty of Architecture of the Second University of Naples. The workshop was coordinated by Alessandra Cirafici and Daniela Piscitelli, together with the visiting professor Lucille Tenazas, who teaches at the Parson The New School of design in New York. The research and design work involved a group of students from different cultural backgrounds and of different nationalities and revolved around the concept of ‘loss’; this regarded both the loss of material goods and property but also, and above all, the loss of identity and memory. In this sense, the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo region in 2009 and the total destruction of the historical centre of the city of l’Aquila represented a concrete opportunity to assess the capacity of design to promote actions of collective consciousness and strategies to work through the emotional loss of memory and identity, linked to situations of alienation and unease caused by the total destruction of significant pieces of people’s pasts. The possibility of comparing sensitivities that had developed in different cultural settings of a clearly transnational nature undoubtedly added to the interest of the project. The students were guided during the careful and sensitive work , enabling them to define poetics and narrative strategies that achieved an intense expressive level where the theme of ‘loss’ was worked through and reinterpreted as a design project.
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