Aproximaciones dialógicas transversales del Diseño. Dialogar el Diseño como disciplina científica

Abstract

The epistemology of design has focused its efforts on treating the discipline as an object of study and framing it within the framework of sciences. The main intention has been to understand it and make it understood as a scientific activity, approach it as a discipline and place it in the academic context. In this way, the design is instituted as an object of study, but also as a subject: historical, social, cultural, political, semiotic and linguistic, on which basic assumptions that would allow its scientific validity to be recognized. As a discipline, whose origin is located in the twentieth century, its approach to science was widely manifested in the use of design methods, procedures, technologies and scientific techniques, as well as in the professional practice and training of designers. It has evolved and allowed us to see that it also uses other sciences, to show inter or multidisciplinary processes that converge in its approach. Analyzing the approach to its praxis, as a discipline of its time, it has been framed in a perhaps intentional or even daily transversality. In this way, it crosses other disciplines to determine assumptions that transcend beyond the professional and economic sphere and allow it to become a phenomenon of analysis that affects all aspects of our society and daily life. The relationship between design and science was raised by Herbert Simon in the seventies of the twentieth century, considering design as a science. His position exposes the need to scientifically study the world created by man and look at design as a science of the artificial. This article offers a proposal, which analyzes the design process, its methods, techniques, technologies and products, in order to put on its scientificity and its scope as a discipline that cuts across the rest.