Introduction

Abstract

Italian life and culture are crisscrossed by objects that intersect, accompany, facilitate, or disrupt experience, desires, dreams, and the multiple needs of day-to-day life as well as those of the imagination and creativity. In spite of their ubiquity, theoretical engagement with the life of objects in the Italian context is still underdeveloped. When they are discussed, objects are articulated as the end product of a process of appropriation. The focus of this book is on creative processes and modalities of life based on the experience of co-belonging between individuals and objects. Four typologies of relation, and their relative contexts, will be considered: fictional, migrant, multicultural/transnational, and artificial.