How can we reconcile economic growth and theneed to protect the environment with social justiceand equality? In his long eclectic career as anarchitect, design historian, museum director andmagazine editor, François Burkhardt has alwaysencouraged the renewal of the formal andsymbolic language of merchandising based oncritical evaluation as well as promoting the ethicalprinciples that must necessarily be behind anydesign. In this book, produces together withGiuseppe Furlanis and Angelo Menisci, he drawson his vast experience at ISIA-Florence toemphasise the central role of education andtraining in the development of a central role ofeducation and training in the development of acritical conscience in design. Burkhardt considersdesign schools as possible "dams" against the nowpopular concept of design as the "handmaiden" ofeconomic growth and production interested onlyin profit- a market that considers the steady,increasing consumption of goods and naturalresources as its only source of growth.
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