Otherness as a resource in the complex project

This essay establishes the urgency and necessity of a critical meditation about ongoing methodologies and design – and at a larger scale geopolitical – strategies as its point of departure. I believe that the inclusion of ‘alien’ events occurring in the territory, even though not structured or planned by professionals, is to be considered as a resource in order to integrate and review the design process in light of the now well-established guidelines of the theory of complexity. Therefore, complex design becomes effective when it pursues an environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability through which its own ethics emerges: an inclusive, welcoming process that takes care of the territory.