Structure of the Lectures
The Disegno Lectures consist
of three interrelated parts:
➜ Formative Design
➜ Coincidental Aesthetics
➜ Poetic Operations
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➜ Developing Methods
➜ Designing Realities
➜ Building Togetherness
The parts are not independent modules, but mutually dependent fields of practice. Each part develops specific capacities, while all three aim at the same goal: the creation of Objects of Participation.
Disegno is understood here not as style or representation, but as a method of forming relations—between body and form, form and language, language and action, individual and collective existence.
Formative Design /
Developing Methods
Formative Design focuses on the production of method.
Students can choose one of three starting points:
• movements,
• coordinates, or
• chance operations.
Based on this, they work with constraints and rule-based procedures.
Method itself becomes a designed object—repeatable, transferable, and open to critique.
Coincidental Aesthetics /
Designing Realities
Coincidental Aesthetics treats environment as something formed through use, habit, and contingency.
Coincidence is not an effect, but a structural force.
Students design objects, spaces, and systems that remain open, situational, and responsive.
Poetic Operations /
Building Togetherness
Poetry is approached as operation rather than expression.
Language, drawing, and performance become tools that structure time, attention, and cooperative relationships.
Ethics emerges as a limit on interference, allowing others to exist without being reduced to any kind of functional value.
Objects of Participation
All three strands aim at the creation of Objects of Participation. These include objects, spaces, interfaces, and activities designed not for consumption, but for use, interpretation, and shared agency. Their rules remain perceivable. Their meaning is not fixed, but sustained through participation.
Objects of Participation are the shared outcome of all three parts of the Disegno Lectures. They include objects, spaces, media, and activities that do not close meaning, but open it. They are designed to enable participation, interpretation, and collective responsibility. In them, aesthetics and ethics do not appear as separate domains, but as mutually dependent conditions of togetherness.
