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Art & Design Activism
  • ISSN: 2977-6813
  • E-ISSN: 2977-6821

Abstract

We are facing crucial changes in our natural and artificial environments, from the social, economic and technical transformations in our anthropocentric world to the unstoppable change in the natural global order we live in. Science is a key necessary tool to solve problems, but art as a transcendent and non-utilitarian activity might be more needed than ever. Design, since we can agree that it aims at holding a scientific vision of how to creatively solve problems, walks in between hoping to be able to address what we call ‘wicked’ problems. At the 2022 conference of the Design Research Society in Bilbao in 2022, research designers from all over the world gathered together to delve into the state of methodological research on the questions and problems of our current society. Out of the important number of activities, meetings, round tables and workshops held, we can posit that there was kind of a feeling that design was moving in a new direction, more committed perhaps, more involved and political; design is becoming an activist. Design and designers, hand in hand with art and science, should be part of the equation if we want to be able to face global problems from a human and participative point of view.

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Keyword(s): art; climate change; design; design research; DRS2022Bilbao; post-anthropocentric; societal change; wicked problems

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