Design, craft, project & sustainability

Abstract

Design has been, since its origins, a collaborative mediator of other areas and a multifaceted creative engine that drives innovation. It is also an area based on a holistic approach, attentive to society, culture, the environment, the economy, technology and the specific needs of a given group of individuals. Thus, the role of Design is increasingly fundamental in building the paths of evolution of human production, having an enormous responsibility with regard to the safety of the heritage inherited by future generations, be it natural, material, immaterial or intangible. Thinking about Design processes in a consistent and positive way today, always requires a broad, unifying, critical, self-critical, collaborative, strategic and sensitive vision of the four pillars of sustainable development. Thinking about Craftsmanship, Design and Project, necessarily, too. In this case, the specific universe of the cultural and ecological identity of a given place occupies the space of recognition of the common memory of a legacy of the past and the responsibility of preserving, repositioning and/or reinterpreting it, placing it in the future. Despite the years that have passed since the institutionalization of the SDGs, it is now urgent to cultivate a growing and global responsibility in a systemic way that pursues models for their operationalization, which must necessarily be based on collaborative models of exploration of methods that, based on Design processes, corroborate the enriched inclusion of processes and values ​​intrinsic to Crafts.