The meeting closed the first step of analysis and research of a newborn project for the formation of a method of archiving and return of a knowledge system for design, starting from the research and teaching material created during the time and today lying as a kind of passive material, uneasy to use as support for any further advance in the quality of studies and of the related productive area. The programme of the tutorial, the speeches and other information at www.mast.polimi.it/semdesign/home.html.