What is Dematerialisation

The chapter focuses on the contemporary project, interpreted using the paradigm of interactivity as privileged reading key. Indeed, the changes (both social and technological) brought by the IT revolution and the information society force design to face new challenges, calling upon it to rethink the traditional categories of space and time. Today we are witnessing a more integrated fusion between physical products and digital images; the traditional boundaries between different environments are now dynamic and interactive communication interfaces; spaces become “perceivable” and the standard design of finished shapes seems to be replaced by the planning of reversible strategies. The project itself is what triggers different actions and is responsive towards its interlocutor, also thanks to a technological evolution now allowing a new osmosis between man, media, and space. The result of it is a sensory amplification defining immersive environments and setting new boundaries for the discipline that finds in exhibits its own privileged field of expression and research.