Technological Research and Invention in the Industrial Design

Technological research proposes stimulating challenges starting from the new scenarios arising since XX century, the environmental imperative imposes new responsibilities, the industrial production, requires the rethinking of the concept of "material culture" as well as new information technologies lead to new models of theoretical and conceptual elaboration. We live a new condition, defined by Augé «surmodernitè», where history fades into actuality, space turns into images and individuals from being actors become spectators. The industrial design moves from tackling "traditional culture" of the project to the "culture of innovation" for which the "know-how", which allows the transition from theory to practice, is replaced by the "can-do" that is the design of a technological solution allowing to model artifacts in a new way and, as a consequence, introducing a different interaction between users and the context. The contribution illustrates the design experimentation of the industrial invention “inclusive control system device [repositionable]”.