Abstract

GEJFINBEIN, Leandro  and  SPITZ, Rejane. De la Bauhaus a la Materia Activa: deconstrucción y reconstrucción del Diseño en 100 años de historia. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2023, n.114, pp.17-47.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi114.4113.

If we take as starting point the emergence of the Bauhaus school, Design as a discipline - a conjunction of theory, practice and education - completes, in 2019, a century of existence. Over that time, it has evolved into a fundamental element of contemporary society, marked by mass production and consumption, urbanization, and the revolution in information and communication technologies. Its original essence and function - to plan and shape all the artificial things that humanity creates, guided by a rationalist and deterministic idea, in search of definitive solutions - had to be transformed to meet the demands of society. More recently, the demand for contextualization, digital media, and the development of so-called active matter point to even deeper disruptions. In this paper, we make a historical and critical review of Design, and - from four turning points - we propose a new look at the most fundamental aspects of the discipline and its challenges for the future.

Keywords : Design; active matter; digital; society; transformation; ideology..

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