Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review

Design, as an approach to action, is always placing itself within the track of innovation, between material and immaterial matters, product and service. Nevertheless, Design was never built from a clear and defined field, as a starting point. Rather its framing as a discipline has been historicized and “hardened” over years, in parallel with several disciplines. Through this ongoing evolution we can see a clearly and recognizably a “disciplined” theoretical apparatus.