Prefacio

Abstract

This publication is the seventh Journal of the Research Line Nº4 Design in Perspective, Design Scenarios, and belongs to Project Nº7 called Design, Innovation and Transdisciplinarity II: Relations of Design with Nature, Biology and Technology. It is a continuation of –Cuaderno 140– that publishes the results of the investigation of Project 4.6 Design, Innovation and Transdisciplinarity I. As already stated on the occasion of Cuaderno 140, this time Line N°4, through Projects 4.6 and 4.7, begins a path of inquiries arising from the dialogues held with Professors Amilton Arruda from the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), and Carla Langella from the Universita degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (Italy). It focuses on another of the Design Scenarios investigated by Line N ° 4, referring to the advances and overlaps between the social fields of Biology, Digital Technologies, Nanotechnology, Engineering and Project Disciplines, a matter that establishes a of the most accelerated transformations of the disciplinary field of Design both in the Academy and in the actions of the real world. It is part of the history of design, architecture and urbanism, that nature has always been the territory of multiple and diverse formal, functional, significant and heuristic inspirations capable of generating new and effective solutions, studies and theories. This scenario has been representing a vertiginous interpellation that transforms that inescapable link towards inter-multi-transdisciplinary demands, experimentation in Design laboratories, collaborative research, the setting of objectives that guide bio-inspired processes towards sustainability and regenerative systems, and a growing and bold launching pad for innovation, which places Design in the field of Science.