Practice of Consumption and Spaces for Goods

The change in the
significance of goods is a process which has triggered far-reaching
changes in society as the term has lost any meaning in relation to
its purely functional character and increasingly come to represent
symbolic and cultural contents.

The practice of
consumption seems today to be one of the distinctive features by
means of which we can describe the social, political and economic
phenomenologies which, for better or worse, influence our lives.

What becomes
increasingly evident and necessary is the role of design culture as a
structure for the coordination of the networks of knowledge, to
interpret the world of things and design in order to influence
behaviours, in the final analysis, bringing about the rise of new
economies.

The practice
of consumption and the spaces for goods are in continuous evolution,
constantly eluding typological and functional definition. One of the
objectives of this research, besides an attempt to explore not only
the spaces but also the practices of consumption from the designer’s
perspective, is to understand what mechanisms are at work, what
competences, the roles which have impacted on, still impact on today
and will continue to impact on this sector in the future.