Workshop:

One year ago, after a meeting with Susan Yelavich at Parsons - The New School for Design in New York, I began an exchange of Letters on the History of Design in which numerous scholars took part. These Letters are published in the first issue of the online magazine of the Associazione Italiana degli Storici del Design (http//www.aisdesign.org): all of the citations here that are not mentioned in the footnotes come straight out of the Letters. History of Design’s loss of influence today as an autonomous discipline as well as the loss it has undergone in the field of education lies at the heart of the debate. I believe it may be of benefit to carry on such a debate taking into account both the similarities that stand out as well as any noticeable differences.