Bridging Innovation Between Humanities and Design: New Cognitive and Relational Processes

Starting from a phenomenological overview on the settled and codified “Humanities oriented” activities currently developed in a design practice, the paper aims, first of all, at picturing the current state of the art in the relation between Humanities and Design to introduce, afterwards, a theoretical reflection on the possibility to codify a new innovation process, that can be framed as “humanities centered innovation”. In particular, referring to the scientific literature about Metadesign and the design of the design process within the design-oriented sectors, the paper will offer a set of “humanistic design metaproducts”, as models that interpret the analytical outputs of the research activities by Humanities and connect those contents to the design practice.