Just Enough: Design Microstories

Carlo Vannicola

Softcover |  24 x 1.65 x 16 cm | 208 pp

Forma Edizioni | 2024 | 9788855211581

Text in English and Italian

Just Enough: Design Microstories offers a collection of insights, a series of hypotheses about the transversality and interdisciplinarity that characterise the process of creating design. A succession of micro-narratives that take reality as a source of inspiration.

The evolution of materials and techniques, art and design, the authors and their works, the formal and typological aspects, the historical and anthropological, psychological and social elements, are all explored in a sequence of reflections. Each is consequential to the previous and thus essential to the whole, which is the sum of "just enough" of each to tell the complete story of what it means to develop a project in our time.

Carlo Vannicola is Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Camerino's Architecture Department. In the past, he has taught ar the Universities of Florence and Genoa, where be founded and coordinated the Five-Year Degree Course in Product and Event Design. He is concerned with the theory and practice of design, with particular attention to the typological and technological evolution of many categories of products and their relationship between past and present, between tranisversality and the interdisciplinary aspects of he skills involved. Exponent of the design process as a method of research and sharing of expcricnces, be has organised exhibitions of design in Italy and abroad. He has also aught many workshops in internatioal project design.