Research, Theory and Design Culture: a Knowledge Growing within Complexity

As the frontier of present interdisciplinary sciences, complexity thinking can provide powerful models to approach design research issues. Adaptation to the demands of a complex world requires to generate knowledge, and design knowledge, operating within a context of complexity, more than ever requires expanded and integrated ways of thought. Considering design as a wide dimension of making and planning disciplines, here it will be assumed not only that design theory and design research are central frames of inquiry for design, but that as an integrative approach design thinking goes beside complexity thinking.