Disorientation proposal

Some considerations away from the dispositional view of Design

Abstract

What realities are activated when we abstract our gaze and gestures from the lights of our time is a question that summons the ideas that follow. Such an ignition seems to be possible from multiple positions: the one proposed here is a navigation of the possibilities, or paths, that remain for a Design stifled by the dispositions of modern progress. Stripped of guiding determinations, what should be the subjects and occupations of design in the world?

Our current ways of shaping the world, how we understand and approach the real, seem impossible to transform. Various paths seem to open as the density of the project dissolves: the nostalgic temptation, the alleged absolute objectivity of data, reactionary design. However, in a scenario like the current one where certainty or forecasts are overshadowed by issues such as the political and environmental crisis, or our submission in the era of hyper-information, a shift of the gaze to territories other than those assumed can reveal other potencies.

Even from the most unsuspected places - a collapsed delta, a short story - we can begin to pay attention to the shadows that slip out of the corner of our eyes and find new ways of understanding how we design. Also, other spatialities from which to reconsider a new design culture. Being able to work attentively with our given environment and reconsider our project for the future - constructing new ways of narrating ourselves - can result in a total disorientation, an absence with respect to our time that dissolves the limits of what we understand as the real world.