Abstract

ARIZA, Verónica. El Diseño como objeto de estudio y como ejercicio de intervención. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2020, n.82, pp.46-68. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi82.3713.

Different visions have been generated about design research in the last two decades, they are preceded by a formal register of the systematization of design thinking and its study as a knowledge generating activity in the second half of the 20th century. This text presents some points of view that can be divided into theoretical research (practice, criticism, identity), practice (where objects are in themselves products that embody knowledge) or theoretical / practical (through the design activity studing the particulari-ties of the intervention); but also others that base design research in the study of the users, products or processes. This involves discussions about research into, through or for design, and initiatives that propose endogenous and exogenous research. This paper shows that despite the diversity of typologies on design research, can be distinguished two major options: Research on the designed objects and their impact on the world and research to design, which allows the processes and design processes. In the first case, the design is the object of study, research generates descriptions, discussions and ways of understanding the created object, also what is expected from the design and the impact it has on the world. In the case of research for design, it is a process where knowledge is applied but it is also expected to occur or contrast through project practice, design as a source of change from one situation to another, as an exercise of intervention. Finally, the work presents some examples of these two great aspects that embrace the efforts to define the scope of design research.

Keywords : Design; research; method; knowledge; typology..

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