Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. An Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. An Introduction 7
4. Giving Form
5. Estetica. Teoria della formatività. Preface to the 1988 edition, followed by “The Specification of Art” 23
6. Formativity: A Philosophy of Making 41
7. Gestaltung: A Process of Transformation of Forms as the Dynamic of Creativity 55
8. Form in the Sphere of Design 69
9. First There Is Form. Some Critical Remarks About the Belief That Form Follows Function 79
10. No Deviation, No Life. Fine Arts and Symmetry 91
11. Bricology: An Anthropology of Making Art 109
12. The Threshold of Invention. Design Processes in Light of Some Methods of Projection 121
13. From Gestalt to Gestaltung. A Conversation with Giovanni Anceschi 133
14. From Invisible Design to Post-Optimal Objects. Interface Design and Discourses of Dematerialization since circa 1960 147
15. The Will to Engineer. Synthetic Biology and the Escalation of Zoëpolitics 159
16. Buckminster Fuller: In Praise of the Imperfect 169
17. The Design Turn 2.0 183
18. Form Given
19. From the Invention of Manufacturing Processes to the Discovery of Matter 197
20. Toward an Archaeology of Hanro’s Design Processes of Underwear Production in the 1930s 211
21. The Discreet Charm of Typography 221
22. Acting Things. Choreographing the Everyday 237
23. In Formation & Information in Living Material 251
24. Rethinking the Materials Paradigm. Toward an Active Understanding of Gestaltung 263
25. The Bark Project. Combining Science and Design to Elaborate New Models of Production for the Design Industry 273
26. In the Flow. Incorporating the Formative Forces of Fluid Matter 285
27. Designing Openness. An Approach to Integrate Active Material Behavior into Digital Design Practice 303
28. To Build a Fish. Structuring Space and Material in Skeletons 315
29. The Role of Mechanics in the Growth and Modeling of Biological Materials 329
30. Expansions and Imperfections. Experiments on a Self-Morphing Lattice 343
31. Attempts at Explementation. Combining Material and Symbolic Operations in Art and Design Research 355
32. Afterword 369
33. Biographies 374
34. Image Credits 378
35. Acknowledgments 380