Abstract
The following essay aims to expose the characteristics of Transdisciplinary Design and its relationship with design thinking, applying both as complex problem-solving strategies. In order to achieve this, we must briefly explore the characteristics of design thinking and non-uni-disciplinary strategies and subsequently describe the reasons why design can be considered as a privileged platform for problem-solving strategies for the more complex problematics of our contemporary society; ranging from transdisciplinary design as well as the differences with regard to design thinking model. Keywords: transdisciplinarity, design, complexity, design thinking, non-disciplinary approaches.
Highlights
Nowadays, it does not take much effort to understand that the world we live in is complex
This recognition is in part owed to its application in diverse areas of the economy through what we today know as design thinking, a concept that is generally used to describe the cognitive process by which designers apply creative thinking or lateral thinking alongside critical or rational thinking for the achievement of an objective
Its conceptualization and mass use is owed to Tim Brown, a professor from the engineering school at Stanford University and creator of the consultant Ideo.com, he described with profound detail this new concept in his article “Design thinking” (2008), in his work Brown states that innovation is driven by a solid comprehension, which is only attainable through observation of what people want, and need in their lives, what they like and dislike about the way a product is fabricated, packaged, sold and their support of various products
Summary
It does not take much effort to understand that the world we live in is complex. The recognition of our environment as complex and the study of the relationships between the systems that conforms it (physical or human), construct and transform our knowledge and the way we behave individually and collectively. This is something new in contemporary thinking. Complex systems present some things in common: first, a complex collective behavior; complex systems are formed of individual components, like cells, ants, neurons, consumers or network users, is the collective actions of a vast number of components which generates complexity They are similar in the way they process information; all complex systems produce and use information from both internal and external environments. All complex systems are self-adapted through learning or evolutionary processes (Mitchell, 2009, p. 14)
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