Matures Waering Stockings

(fragment of a larger text called "Theory for what")

Today we know that everything is more connected than it appears, and the various approaches existing human beings, society, matter and space tend to converge explicit the implicit dependencies and correlations between (and with) the most diverse knowledge, experiences and phenomena which we have record.

The concept of network and systems approaches, holistic and integrated realize this assumption of complexity as a key factor in understanding and identification of policies and action plans in almost any social context. There are so many variables in the process of identifying needs, and the subsequent creation of opportunities from this detection, the design must overcome to engage effectively with the demands and constraints imposed by this background, which always implies a need for systematic manage the complexity in order to ensure, among other things, the simplicity of the final solution.
What design means that no matter how complicated the problem, the solution should be simple: simple to implement, understand, use and replicate, since the design project involves not only mental thought (the concept of a theoretical framework the consequent presentation of hypotheses and verification) and its primary tangibilización as a prototype, but also its implementation, commoditization (if not standardization), delivery (whether commercial or not) to an actual user and their efficient use. This understanding of design as a process that ends in devices, products and communication elements and as a creative process that meets demands and needs, inevitably affects the scope of design theory, its emphasis, and political hierarchies.

Until today, this is a premise that has allowed the existence of academic offerings which "seal" differs in degree sensitive about what has been characterized as design (Visual Communication Design, Graphic Equipment, Industrial, Integral, Services, Editorial, Multimedia, etc..). Therefore identify the variables that determine the present state of activity of the designers influence not only their thoughts and beliefs about themselves, but necessarily determines the objectives of any educational project that attempts train professionals who are functional to those objectives, in a way that cuts across many can claim economic and political approaches (which are usually operated on each other). As the variables are identified, whether knowledge or skills are required to demonstrate professional practice generic skills to face the world of production or superior capabilities that enable the assertive leadership of the "life choices" of designers, end up producing tracks of course or program of study, determining (at least on paper) areas that should be expected to master a professional.