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1). The consequence is that the design mode is becoming dominant in all fields, at all levels of human activity, and for every kind of “subject,” whether individual or collective. 2). Human progress? This great phenomenon can be seen and judged in different ways. For individuals and communities it is certainly easy to see its negative or problematic aspects. Although it is true that the current context encourages people to design their own lives, it is also true that the same context hinders them by creating expectations that cannot be satisfied, strewing difficulties in their path and reducing their practical possibility of realizing their life projects.

Things started to change with the Renaissance and the scientific revolution. From this period onward, parallel to the speed of sociocultural, economic, and technological change, the design mode began to get a foothold and spread. 1). The consequence is that the design mode is becoming dominant in all fields, at all levels of human activity, and for every kind of “subject,” whether individual or collective. 2). Human progress? This great phenomenon can be seen and judged in different ways. For individuals and communities it is certainly easy to see its negative or problematic aspects.

Research through design necessarily brings into play a level of subjectivity that would be inadmissible in the scientific tradition. Nevertheless, this is not typical “artistic research,” totally guided by the subjective dimension. Design is a discipline that combines creativity and subjectivity with a dose of reflection and discussion about its own choices. The same is obviously true for research through design, with the added factor that, in this case, the knowledge produced cannot be implicit and integrated in the design but must be explicit, discussable, transferable, and compoundable.

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