Abstract
Many people tend to look with a jaundiced eye on the impassioned design and architecture manifestoes of the European modernists, while refusing to acknowledge the importance of those statements in articulating and shaping the impulses of modernism. For some, the manifesto is aform of communication confined to modernism itself Such attitudes have dissuaded architects and designers today from banding together to attempt similarly declarative summations of their views. From time to time such summations are made but none has provided the context for a rethinking of design practice as the modernists hoped to do in their time. That is the aim of the Guzzini Design Memorandum which is introduced here by one of its creators, Fredrik Wildhagen. Design Issues is proud to publicize this memorandum, geared to the contemporary situation, which has the potential to help us set out a series of issues for worldwide discussion. To fully document this effort, we are publishing the original Italian version along with the English translation which was changed slightly to accommodate its appearance in a non-Latin language.
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