IMPACT OF PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES ON DESIGN

Abstract

In design theories, the same phenomenon happens as in trends or fashions, unexpectedly some author appears who read one of the classics of the discipline with a reinvented name. This is similar to the discovery of the black thread, since the theory is not even presented in its original conceptual context, the usual thing is that some fragment is pulled out, which may present some coherence and is developed with some schematic skill, thus presenting something “innovative”.

In this research there is a historiographic review of the antecedents that form the foundations of design theories. Emerging in the visual arts, they are an important link to understanding the roots of design thinking. There is a strong ancestry in the styles that emerged in the 19th century and that represented in multiple ways the sources that would give rise to the 20th century avant-gardes. In both stylistics and manifestos, important precedents were structured for the emergence of the idea of design as a discipline that summarized in its modes, the needs of civilization and culture.

Each location of design emanated from the appropriate opportunities for the conquest of creative niches that gradually added the development of techniques and technology that would adapt to two- and three-dimensional design processes.