Design for Next Design.

Design has always played a role in envisioning the next shape of the world. The nature of the process of transformation performs an important role in defining the shape through a complex network of interactions: any material and immaterial configuration is always an ongoing plastic phenomenon resulting from the combination of complex factors, details, properties, techniques, materials and of course people. After the paradigms of industry and mass production, design is growing as a multifaceted activity, which is multiplying its products, tasks, and actors in order to face the challenges of next society and often exceeding the disciplinary boundaries of knowledge. Out of any utopian view of the future, design is getting back to look ahead of time in order to shape our material and immaterial world here and now. The shift brought by technology is declaring the emergence of the process in design in every form, where the designer assumes the role of facilitator for enabling the conversation between different disciplinary languages, and finally taking advantage of a wider collective intelligence.