Introducción

Abstract

The subject that motivates this publication began to be forged within the framework of the course ‘Epistemology of Design’, given at the PhD in Design at the University of Palermo. In this space we proposed to the students to explore, review, redefine and even "playfully intervene" the images shown below. The objective we were pursuing was to motivate reflection on the disciplinary fields and practices involved in them. The mentioned images were proposed by Rich Gold, in order to express the roles he had to play throughout his professional life. In the first one, Gold himself is represented with what he calls "the four caps of creativity", which, according to him, he had worn in his work as an artist, as a scientist, as a designer and as an engineer. Starting from them, he dwells on the distinctive –but also binding– features that he finds among the characters described. Then he represented Art, Design, Science and Engineering. The model can be read vertically and horizontally, resulting in different links between the contents of that diagram. In this publication, we propose, precisely, our own look at these motivating, and sometimes controversial, issues.