Sacred design. Immaterial values, material culture

Abstract

Religions are something related to God, but played by humans and humans require witnesses of God's presence in their lives. The production of artefacts linked to Religion is something interconnected to our society and the design discipline, beyond borderline boundaries with art and self-production, is the one that shall care of this. Through creativity and matter, design delivers the sign of a holy presence or, at least, it offers a key to the comprehension of our world. The paper would show how the three Religions of the Book, through their design, reveal cultural connections and economical relationships with the land of use and its own habits and heritage, in a cross-cultural process that demonstrates consistently integration and diversification, simultaneously separation and union. Focusing on objects and visual products, the aim of this essay is to widen integration and reciprocal understanding in the next society, through design-driven cultural process.