DESY, fates of faber's houses and ateliers

Abstract

This paper presents an interdisciplinary research project related to the Design Department of the Milan Polytechnic, aimed to identifying experimental valorisation strategies for a specific typology of spaces, the faber's houses / ateliers. If so D.E.SY (Designing Enhancement Strategies and Exhibit SYstems for the Italian House Museums and Studios), focused on the system of places of life and work of the faber (artists, architects, designers, foremen) in the metropolitan area of Milan and Lombardy, crosses a microarea of museography (houses and atelier museums), a substantial percentage of our survey is represented by private spaces, although often visited and open to dialogue with the community. This is a composite network that goes against the trend of widespread and increasingly less sustainable hypermuseism. Moreover, the vocation of these places is varied, the stages of conservation are different as  well  as their potential and critical issues.  So the basic-exploratory research, with purposes of methodological investigation, was measured with a fluid and contaminated subject stimulating for the transversal skills of the research group, composed of historians (art, design, museology), designers for cultural heritage, interaction and applied technologies designers. As project coordinator, the author intends to highlight the peculiarities of the investigation and its processes, in the exchange of methods and perspectives implemented: from the decoding to reflection have been born enhancement strategies and openness to the territory of museographically “closed” spaces with all their tangible and intangible heritage. At the same time, these formidable setting, with their internal storytelling strategies, are able to influence the design laboratory and modify its perception.