Lisbon – Design speaks Italian in Lisbon where is held the course “Italy and creativity: design and its protagonists”. The initiative, organized by the Italian Institute of culture in the Portuguese capital, will continue until February 13. During the ten lessons, through documentaries, interviews, readings and comments, take the history of some of the protagonists – architects, engineers, designers – and analyzing the objects that brought Italy and its industry at the highest international levels. In the nineteenth century, with the advent of industrialization, before a first long period in which the serial products combined functionality and technology with poor aesthetic quality, many architects and artists began to devote themselves to industrial design. (9colonne)
