Abstract
We live through a socio-environmental, socio-political and socio-technical crisis that forces us to ask ourselves urgent questions about our planet. The article explores the need to transition from human-centred design to forms of design with a terrestrial vision. Based on the experience of the School of Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it explores the potential of Planet-Oriented design as an articulator of new practices and a new ethic of teaching and doing design. The recent social phenomena - such as the Chilean social uprising of 2019 - added to the planetary crises in which we live opened the question for new coordinates that orient the sense of a design school in a future less dependent on the needs of the market, and more in tune with an ethical turn of the practice of design. The planet-oriented design would propose to displace the human from the centre of the design question and promote an approach based on the deep interdependencies between more-than-human actors. The article explores these arguments as a possible way out of the recent crises that have engulfed design, particularly those models coming from the global north.
Keywords
planet-oriented design, human-centred design, design ethics, design education
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.506
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Tironi, M.,and Chilet, M.(2023) Planet-Oriented Design: a proposal for new ethical transitions in Design Education, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.506
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Planet-Oriented Design: a proposal for new ethical transitions in Design Education
We live through a socio-environmental, socio-political and socio-technical crisis that forces us to ask ourselves urgent questions about our planet. The article explores the need to transition from human-centred design to forms of design with a terrestrial vision. Based on the experience of the School of Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, it explores the potential of Planet-Oriented design as an articulator of new practices and a new ethic of teaching and doing design. The recent social phenomena - such as the Chilean social uprising of 2019 - added to the planetary crises in which we live opened the question for new coordinates that orient the sense of a design school in a future less dependent on the needs of the market, and more in tune with an ethical turn of the practice of design. The planet-oriented design would propose to displace the human from the centre of the design question and promote an approach based on the deep interdependencies between more-than-human actors. The article explores these arguments as a possible way out of the recent crises that have engulfed design, particularly those models coming from the global north.