Critical and Dialogical Design.

Project forms of thought and action as a possibility of territorial transformation

Abstract

A work is presented that proposes a critical and dialogic approach to social-territorial problems, feasible to be intervened and transformed from the field of Design. To this end, some theoretical reflections are presented on the so-called: Design Thinking and its connection with the field of Communication, in order to expose articulating nodes for a perspective on Critical and Dialogical Design: in its potential to project territorial transformations through of criticism of the meanings represented and communicated (discursively), which arise from the underlying power relations in a particular territory.

In this sense, Design, as a form of thought and project intervention, generates, according to this approach, the possibility of establishing frameworks for analysis and criticism of the constitutive dimensions of the territory and its territorialities, in a discursive context, with denaturalization and social transformation as the main general objective of its approach. 

In this way, “criticism” is established as a key approach to the discursive devices to think about possible innovations, and it is what entails the double action of thinking about the conditions of what is naturalized (in terms of the interests that constitute them). ) and in turn in the alternatives that arise to constitute transformations in the ways of thinking, saying and doing in the territory. This approach translates into the possibility of conceiving a critical approach to the design of social problems from the articulation with the paradigm of Critical Discourse Analysis.