Design for Adaptation in Times of Complexity

The design action is always impacting the society and the environment with creative solutions, since it deals with local and global emergencies. Aspects such as complexity and plurality, uncertainty and nonlinearity, or reciprocity, force every designer to a new responsibility to the “other”, be it a person, an animal, vegetable, or artifact. Consequently, the design action is always a problematic and multidimensional action, that is answering to new questions in creative ways, often related to the technological acceleration and the social development: the environment and the ecology, justice and social equity, globalization and local cultures, new technologies and scientific research, new forms of biological and artificial life and the responsibility towards future generations.