DUALISM MANIFESTO / Design challenges for the XXI Century /

This open-access book intends to present a speculative, emergent and often radical approach to designing that draws on interdisciplinary research to explore the boundaries of design for contemporary and future spaces, observing reality through the critical lens of opposing dualisms which, precisely in their interval, define the value of the incredible versatility of being able to design between space and time, local and global, nature and artifice, science and art, technological and humanistic knowledge. The work also gathers experimental teaching and learning results collected during the six-year coordination period of the Master of Science in Interior and Spatial Design at the Politecnico di Milano | School of Design – from 2016 to 2021 – which saw the Coordinator Board, together with colleagues and experts, draw a parallel and alternative line of study of spatial design. The numerous contributions from scholars and experts of various disciplinary fields are organized in essays, abstracts, comments, speeches, focus on topics, and a large number of images relating to the various design experiences, defining a vibrant ensemble of visions and opportunities created by seniors and juniors, in an authentic peer-to-peer effort to recognize and incoming opportunities, between the real and the virtual, the natural and the hyper-technological.