120+ project is the answer to the spontaneous need to understand the current context in which design is operating, through the study of the common and shared vocabulary in this historical period. What is the role of design nowadays? Which responsibility do designers have as human beings? How can design respond to this reality? And in the future? A widespread research into the responsibility and applications of design environmental-oriented has led to a collection of ordinary words: 120+ is an approach to the analysis and contextualization of some terms; a selection of neologisms, nouns, concepts; a glossary of terms addressing topics that contemporary design culture has to deal with.

Ilaria Pirro, is an Italian designer from Bari, now living between Milan and Lisbon. Ilaria graduated in Product Design and is currently attending MSc at Politecnico di Milano. Sensitive to issues concerning design as a tool for positive innovation, in recent years she focused on contemporary design research and teaching activities with BA students and children.