Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

Outlining and defining the concept of training means, first of all, identify a specific mindset. Starting from the introduction of pedagogical/experiential activities, this contribution aims to qualify a new training model. A model intended as a fulcrum of laboratory activities as well as didactic, practices as well as theoretical, strongly characterizing the polytechnic study path, activities from which young creative people and future entrepreneurs, can learn using all the possible channels, because the higher the involvement and the multi/transdisciplinary contamination, the more the level of experientiality will be raised. By integrating this concept with the definition of a system, understood as a complex reality whose elements interact with each other, a circular model according to which each element conditions the other and is in turn conditioned by it, it follows that the meaning of each single element it should not be sought in the element itself, but in the system of relations in which it is included. In this logic, the training system is enriched with ever new perspectives aimed at creating a logic of interaction, comparison, constant and concrete sharing with obvious repercussions on the territorial context. A training system that is specified, verified, and re-clarified starting from an analysis of the contemporary state of the art in Turin, but above all from its first experimentation within design courses.