Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), the well-known intellectual and entrepreneur who created the factory which produced the typewriters and calculators that became icons of design and efficiency around the world, considered Saint Augustine’s The City of God the first attempt to explore the concept of “Community”. Following in Augustine’s footsteps, Olivetti described The City of Men (1960), a systemic territorial, political, administrative, economic and cultural entity tailored to the needs of individuals, where people could fully realise their inner potential. He called this conceptual and concrete entity the “Community”, sowing the seed that would lead to the moral and civil reconstruction of postwar Italy whose aim was to merge the country’s productive-industrial and political-social worlds. This paper attempts to outline the development of Olivetti’s thinking about “Community”, from the functionality of production and urban spaces to their educational potential: thanks to the influence of personalist thinking, the material forces that created a productive-industrial/residential-social modernity were transformed into educational-spiritual forces at the service of people within the community.

Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), il noto intellettuale e imprenditore della fabbrica di macchine da scrivere e calcolatori elettronici, icone di design e di efficienza a livello mondiale, parte dalla Città di Dio di Sant’Agostino, che ritiene il primo trattato sulla “Comunità”, per delineare la Città dell’uomo (1960) ovvero un’entità territoriale, politica, amministrativa, economica e culturale di tipo sistemico a servizio della persona e dove la persona esprime pienamente la propria interiorità. Tale entità concettuale e concreta prende il nome di “comunità” e si propone come nucleo portante di rifondazione morale e civile dell’Italia del secondo dopoguerra mirando a un’alleanza tra mondo produttivo-industriale e mondo politico-sociale. La presente ricerca intende delineare lo sviluppo del pensiero di Olivetti attorno al tema della “Comunità” dimostrandone l’evoluzione dalla funzionalità degli spazi produttivi e urbanistici alle potenzialità educative di quegli stessi spazi. Le forze materiali, che hanno dato vita alla modernità produttivo-industriale e abitativo-sociale, hanno assunto finalità educativo-spirituali poste al servizio della persona nella comunità grazie all’influenza del pensiero personalista.

Fava, S. M., Adriano Olivetti’s notion of “Community”: transforming the factory and urban physical space into educational spaces, <<RICERCHE DI PEDAGOGIA E DIDATTICA>>, 2020; 15 (1): 203-216. [doi:10.6092/issn.1970-2221/10475] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/159899]

Adriano Olivetti’s notion of “Community”: transforming the factory and urban physical space into educational spaces

Fava, Sabrina Maria
2020

Abstract

Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), the well-known intellectual and entrepreneur who created the factory which produced the typewriters and calculators that became icons of design and efficiency around the world, considered Saint Augustine’s The City of God the first attempt to explore the concept of “Community”. Following in Augustine’s footsteps, Olivetti described The City of Men (1960), a systemic territorial, political, administrative, economic and cultural entity tailored to the needs of individuals, where people could fully realise their inner potential. He called this conceptual and concrete entity the “Community”, sowing the seed that would lead to the moral and civil reconstruction of postwar Italy whose aim was to merge the country’s productive-industrial and political-social worlds. This paper attempts to outline the development of Olivetti’s thinking about “Community”, from the functionality of production and urban spaces to their educational potential: thanks to the influence of personalist thinking, the material forces that created a productive-industrial/residential-social modernity were transformed into educational-spiritual forces at the service of people within the community.
2020
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Fava, S. M., Adriano Olivetti’s notion of “Community”: transforming the factory and urban physical space into educational spaces, <<RICERCHE DI PEDAGOGIA E DIDATTICA>>, 2020; 15 (1): 203-216. [doi:10.6092/issn.1970-2221/10475] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/159899]
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