person Annalisa Trasatti

Un libro ripercorre la storia del design con uno sguardo femminista. L’autrice ce lo racconta

Chiara Alessi has published a new book titled "La sedia del sadico. Il design sul corpo delle donne" (The Sadist's Chair: Design on Women's Bodies), published by Laterza. In an interview with Artribune, Alessi explains that the book aims to challenge historically accepted paradigms in design that are often considered "natural" and "neutral." She focuses on objects that have been overlooked by designers yet reinforce social structures of exclusion and silencing, starting from the female body as a lens to examine broader issues of marginalization in design history.

Learning is something aesthetic and emotional. Marco Dallari says so in his latest book (and in this interview)

L’apprendimento è qualcosa di estetico e di emotivo. Lo dice Marco Dallari nel suo ultimo libro (e in questa intervista)

Italian pedagogist Marco Dallari discusses his latest book, "La bellezza di Sophia" (2026), which explores the intrinsic human drive for knowledge as an aesthetic and emotional necessity rather than a pragmatic survival tool. Drawing on Freudian concepts and the work of Alessandra Risso, Dallari argues that the desire to learn is a primal impulse that should be nurtured through beauty and curiosity rather than stifled by rigid institutional structures.