ADS is a compulsory subject of a fundamental nature: it has an introductory function and the will to critically analyze creative processes within the cultural contexts of the contemporary world. The syllabus demystifies the "European Project of Modernity" (following Dori Tunstall and other non-essentialist visions) and presents design and art from its neglects, prejudices, mistakes and crimes.
The subject offers students to understand the task of design and art from the standpoint and commitment; that is to say, as areas entangled in the crises and debates of our time.
This year the arrangement of the syllabus closely follows the model of Dante's inferno: the analogy is ironic but allows, with all rigor, to make visible the normalizing routines.
((((((((HELL! A Dantesque mapping of design and art)))))))))
Dante's ordering sense in the Comedy (the classification he offers of historical and contemporary characters) inspires us to make a map of design and art: this infernal map, subdivided into thematic and not historical circles, should help us to judge the ethics and ideologies that condition artistic practice and that of design. But where Dante spoke of vices and sins, we will discuss errors and negligence; and if Dante focused on medieval Christian Europe and the Greco-Latin heritage; us in contemporary Europe that has committed itself to decolonizing questioning. "Abandon all hope, you who enter."and the disruptive ethics that sustain or alter the art and design of nowadays.
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