Silvio Lorusso, Il designer senza qualità, 2025

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 scepticism, 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? This is what Il designer senza qualità (The Designer Without Qualities) proposes. In this book, Silvio Lorusso traces the past and present traces of design disillusionment in an attempt to bridge the gap between expectations and reality in the daily practice of designers.