Design education and the challenge of the socio-environmental civilization crisis

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Aralia María Garduño Barahona

Abstract

The current challenge of design education is to obtain favourable results for biodiversity and individuals by generating skills, abilities, and knowledge that integrate the epistemological bases of the activity and form future designers as agents of change. In this way, by providing them with skills and capacities to generate innovation, their profile will allow them to develop solutions that address the complexity of the socio-environmental crisis that afflicts us. Possible fields of action for design to generate holistic development proposals that respect ideological, political, institutional, and technological conditions are outlined. These favour the conservation-regeneration of resources in the territories of the global south, where design can guide social innovation through strategies that promote a new negentropic productive paradigm that ensures the sustainability of life for all. 

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Author Biography

Aralia María Garduño Barahona, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Aralia María Garduño Barahona is an industrial designer with a master’s degree in design and development of New Products and a Ph.D. in City, Territory, and Sustainability. She is a National System of Researchers research professor and teaches Industrial Design and Design for Graphic Communication programs (UDG). Between 2009 and 2019, she was the coordinator of the Observatory of Innovation and Design (OBSi+d). She is the author of the book “Devenir del diseño. Proceso de cambio” [Design Future. Process of Change] (2015). In addition, she has published book chapters and specialised articles and has presented in national and international forums. She is an advisor on design strategies and productive projects in rural communities. 

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