POTDESIGN for a design of responsability, Editorial

This issue of the Magazine is the report of the POTDESIGN project led by the Italian University of Design, aimed at directing secondary school students to university studies, through workshops for the recognition of skills and the development of vocations. The University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” is the leader of the network formed by all Italian universities with active Courses of Study in Design, eleven Universities are present in the Partnership Agreement, other 3 are present in the joint scientific actions: University of Florence, Politecnico di Torino, University of Palermo, University of Camerino, University of Studies “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, University of Perugia, University of Rome La Sapienza, University of Genoa, Politecnico di Bari, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bo- logna, University of Ferrara with the Politecnico of Milano and with the patronage of the CUID Italian University Conference of Design. Through the Orientation Plans and Tutoring (POT) 2017- 2018, MIUR Department for Higher Education and Research General Directorate for Programming, Coordination and Funding of Higher Education Institutions, asks Universities “the commitment to promote training activities aimed at orientation to university studies and mentoring for the successful completion of the Courses of Study. The reduction in the number of graduates and specifically graduates who finish upper secondary education and enroll in university, the high drop-out rate and the difficulty of successfully completing a course of universities to support young people and young graduates when choosing the path of university studies and in the first years of study”. (POT2017-2018 Guidelines, MIUR).The Orientation of the students of the schools to the conscious choice of the appropriate university path and the activities of Tutoring addressed to the university students to monitor and support the progress in the university path and the achievement of the degree in time programmed, are actions that require time, care, patience, humility, courage, respect and daily attention, every day of the year, every day of the calendar, without interruption, always. This Magazine on the cover features an iconic object, Timor, Enzo Mari’s perpetual calendar that translates the value of POTDesign into its material and immaterial dimension POTDESIGN involves a craftsmanship that proceeds with the creative work, meaning for creativity “use of elements that already exist in new combinations that are useful” (H. Poicarè). The workshops held in the schools are always different and rotate in a fan - like Timor - around a pivot: the student, with whom and for which theuniversity tutors organize multidisciplinary seminars useful to bring out the vocations of each student, the often dormant talent and thus facilitate the recognition of the most appropriate course of study. The beginning of the POT- DESIGN project is intimately contained in the title: It is possible, through creative structures brought out and bring out the vocations of the students of the schools for conscious university choices at a time when alongside the epidemiological pandemic is very serious the educational epidemic, The epidemic of dropping out of school certainly grieves anyone who deals with design anyone who deals with the project and of course anyone who deals with university education. THERE IS QR CODE INSIDE PAG 10. QR CODE OPEN THIS LINK https://youtu.be/oldKYzQMj_Q