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La generosità come valore aziendale? Ho appena finito di vedere "Paradigma Olivetti", un brillante documentario di Davide Maffei che esplora il marchio di Ivrea dal punto di vista del design industriale. Chi mi conosce sa che il design è sempre stata una mia passione, in qualche caso anche più di quello, e l'eccellenza Olivetti meritava senz'altro un'ora e mezza del mio tempo. Fra gli intervistati, Deyan Sudjic, direttore emerito del London Design Museum, dice, verso la fine: "What made Olivetti so unique was a spirit of generosity. It used to design not because it felt it was going to make money out of this, but because it felt it was part of its responsibility. And that spirit of generosity is not part of our own times, there is a much more brutal idea about competition, about paranoia, about secrecy, about building a wall around the company. "We now have a much less physical world, a much more ethereal digital world where what happens inside the screen is more important than what the screen looks like, and the level of investment, the complexity of the processes, the fact that so many people are involved in making a new product, makes it very hard for the individual designer to practice in a way that a Sottsass or a Bellini were privileged enough to do so." "...it felt it was part of its responsibility..." parole che risuonano, soprattutto qui, su questi social dove regna l'apparenza...

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