After fleeing from a city that tired his very soul out, it is in the heart of the woods that Guido can find himself again: there he deeply listens to the nearby creatures, and learns how to let go of the weight of his darkest years, marked by the shadowy spiral of the relationship with his father. While among the trees, shards of memories resurface from his childhood, when his father, lost in his il

Design is optimistic by nature: it seeks to solve problems and, in doing so, create preferable conditions. Yet, the thinking behind it abounds with expressions of skepticism, dissatisfaction, and even resentment. Rather than being dismissed as anomalies, can these “sad passions” shed light on the blind spots of the discipline? Can disillusionment represent something more than mere disappointment? Can it, for example, translate into an emotional method for bringing dysfunctions and contradictions to light? Th