Towards a regeneration of design: development of design in relation to socioenvironmental issues

Abstract

Currently, designers experience impasses and difficulties when seeking to reorient their design processes to more conscious ways of acting, which can collaborate to resolve the different crises that we are experiencing as a society. Many of these difficulties are due to the profound implication of this field in the paradigms and social and economic systems that determined and continue to determine the modes of existence of (post)modernity. The purpose of this essay is to present the origins of design and its socioeconomic context, and put it up for discussion under the lens of alternative paradigms, and other ways of acting in the face of the unsustainability of current development models. It seeks to provide contextualization regarding the emergence of industrial design in Europe under an ideology inspired by modernity and liberal and capitalist economy, and a critical position, which seeks in ecology the bases for a reform or reinvention of the notion of design and its role in society