The Relationship Between Epistemology of the Design Activity Theoretical Body and the Scientific

Abstract

It is often noted the tendency of academia and other systemic space, like legislative, to understand the theme of design activity not only as an activity of technical-practical reflection, but as an activity of social extract and, therefore, influencing policies, generating employment, income and content. It is precisely because of this involvement that the participants' increasing efforts to establish themselves in the spaces of power, as in the field of the intellectual-scientific communities and in the field of professions organized by professional councils. The interdisciplinary involvement with other structured scientific branches, especially those of philosophical base, can elicit arguments favorable to reflections and understanding with a reasonable degree of acceptability for a possible consensus on the relation between epistemology of the theoretical body of the activity in design and scientific community? Through a theoretical review will be analyzed the work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," by Thomas Kuhn, combined with the proposition of Jürgen Habermas' dialogical argument and an interpretation of Georg Simmel's The Wing, to present an argumentative line of philosophical basis capable of offering a reasonable degree of acceptability to the consensus on the relationship between epistemology of the theoretical body of the activity in design and the scientific community. The method of analysis for the research is the phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, with the primacy of subjectivity, where the transcendental subject, integrity, owner and lord of self is the investigator coated with intentionality.