And speed be with us! For design, it is a perpetual challenge, in the changing form of its centralities and nuances. It allows itself no pauses, it cannot afford them, at the risk of its very negation, or its confinement to vintage, in that continuous triumph of more and more, more and more.
Formal escapes accompany content-based ones and there is never stagnation. Computers and mobile phones drive the race for mass consumption, in a constantly changing universe; from architecture, to electromedical devices, to robots, to video games, it's all a race in which few remember VHS, floppy disks and even hard compacts, they have quickly become archaeology of a present which, instantly, turns into the near and distant past, skipping the imperfect, which nobody mentions anymore.
Among the few survivors who escaped the perfect storm of super-jets and holograms are the radio and trains, which have put on a brave face, disguised themselves and reinvented themselves, finding a second youth when nobody was betting a copper, in the style of Scrooge McDuck.
Let's talk about trains. A Hyperloop is planned to connect Rome and Milan in thirty minutes, and by 2030, a metro will connect Milan and Malpensa in two minutes – barely enough time to get on board. There's also a high-speed rail line planned between Turin and Venice in 30 minutes. Meanwhile, China and Japan are already travelling in a futuristic future.
But the past also returns, exhuming the Orient Express to Athens or Istanbul, from Paris; or the Glacier Express from Saint Moritz to Zermatt. As if to say that design extends in all directions, expanding into a new universal style, a pre-Babylonian language that enters our public and private lives, influencing the ways we see, speak, and do, and the forms over time. Plato, in the Timaeus, defines time as a moving image of eternity! Beautiful!
KLESSIDRA | EDITED BY FRANCESCO GALLO MAZZEO
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