The technological design as cognitive process. Theories, models, inventions

This contribution reflects the contemporary terms of the dialectic between the design culture and augmented technical tools. The environmental unit is specified as a model of informed interactions: the organization of the professional and research activities undergo a considerable reflection on the cognitive and operative process, and on the reordering of the skills needed to govern this transformation. We wonder what abilities will have to be acquired or reinforced by the discipline of technological design, in order to support the role of interpreter of physical space. The issue is part of the broader definition of design as synthetic and intentional action of architecture, in and of itself an exercise of prediction and prefiguration, a metaphorical act of producing the built environment.