{"id":238,"date":"2009-04-04T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-06-10T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T18:32:35","slug":"design-and-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/2009\/04\/design-and-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"Design and optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the introduction to the Design conference Changing the Change<\/a> (Torino 10th, 11th, 12th July 2008) the designer Ezio Manzini talked about new design knowledge<\/a>, starting with an idea that seems to be clear in many designers: design has a close relation with optimism. Manzini says<\/p>\n

Being a designer means being an optimist: given the problems, all the problems even the most difficult, all we can do is to presume there is a possibility of solving them, not because we cannot see the difficulties (designers must also be realists), but because we have no alternative. To be designers we must make proposals, and we cannot but base these on such opportunities as we come across.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This idea \u2013 that I have clearly seen in the words of\u00a0Gui Bonsiepe <\/strong>(see\u00a0Bonsiepe y el rol del dise\u00f1ador<\/a>),\u00a0Philippe Stark<\/strong> (see\u00a0Pilippe Stark y el ser diferente<\/a>) and\u00a0Bruno Latour<\/strong> when he says that \u201cthe\u00a0spread of the word \u2018design\u2019 doesn\u2019t come at a time when there is less to do; it\u00a0comes at a time when there is more to do\u201d<\/em> (see\u00a0Hacia una filosof\u00eda del dise\u00f1o<\/a>) \u2013 could be the rationale behind the creation of new design schools<\/strong> in moments of reconstruction and hope.<\/p>\n

I have in mind at least two milestones (thinking that there are more examples): the creation of the hfg ulm<\/a> in 1953, after World War II, and the creation of the design careers in the FADU – UBA<\/a> in 1985, after Argentina’s come back to democracy in 1983.<\/p>\n

I wonder what will come after the world crisis we are facing today.<\/p>\n

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