Exhibiting design archives. The case of Ettore Sottsass

The valorization of events within the history of design cultures, especially those that are hidden, lost, or forgotten, involves the reconstruction of processes inherent to design and represents one of the major challenges for contemporary archives. Starting from the reconstruction of the debate and from the analysis of a specific case study, namely the “dispersed” archive of Ettore Sottsass jr, this text reflects critically on the digital models for the consultation and display of documents utilized by different types of archives operating in the field of design. *