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Vanni Pasca Faculty of Architecture, Palermo Lucia Pietroni Phd Student University La Sapienza, Rome History of Design and Design Research Toward a Multilinear History of Design Recently, practice of industrial design and studies about it have undergone major changes. History, and Design History too, must be rewritten every time new points of view arise. The aim of this paper is to illustrate a program of research that goes beyond a linear interpretation of the history of design. In particular, the study focuses on the way the lines of development, in the 19th century, take form in relation to the appearance of technique as a dominant theme. Today a complex, multilinear approach to history is necessary, in order to make design history into a tool for design research, to better understand the present and think critically about the future. ← back | download 920 Kb pg170.zip