Thirteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

In order to understand the present world, overcoming the boundaries between knowledge and seeking new paths to achieve innovative solutions in a dynamic and increasingly complex scenario, this paper discusses the issues related to the disciplines and forms of knowledge organization based on integration of “multi,” “inter,” “trans,” and “meta” prefixes in the composition of disciplinarity concepts and their meanings. The metadesign, as the “project of project” or “design of design” will be approached as a proposal of transdisciplinary knowledge platform in the conduction of the design process in practice of new project realities. To achieve this objective, a bibliographic survey was carried out comparing several definitions for each approach, from various authors such as Edgard Morin, Jean Piaget, Basarab Nicolescu, Erich Jantsch, and Hilton Japiassu, among others. Based on the need for a knowledge platform that supports and guides the design activity in a fluid, dynamic, and constantly changing environment, the metadesign emerges as a model that considers all possible hypotheses within the design potentiality, but which doesn’t limit itself as a single design model composed of pre-established technical solutions.