The dynamics of color observation and use in everyday life has been one of the constants in the classes I’ve delivered over the last 29 years. I am of the firm conviction that designers must study color as matter, for treating color is imperative to their endeavour.

That was why when in 1985 I decided to innovate new lines of teaching, I instituted the ‘Color festivals’ held at the school. In this new context, students were required to report their research on the use of color in pleasurable ways (in snacks, meals or appetizers when all that was still a novelty, long before ‘nouvelle cuisine’ grew into ubiquity). As a result, color in and of itself became a distinctive entity in the School of Design.

Understandably, then, for me the elimination of the subject ‘Color’ in the new curriculum for a degree in design is incomprehensible. I deeply regret that today’s students are being deprived of what I had gradually managed to have included in department programming under the various management teams who espoused my proposals and granted my requests.