Apontamentos para um design a partir do discurso: projetando para a neurodiversidade

Abstract

In this work, it is argued that design research was heavily influenced by scientific par-adigms and positivistic epistemologies, many times mimicking methodologies and methods from areas such as cognitive sciences and cognitive psychology. This influence helped mold a kind of design research that has been developed since the 1960s, and it spawned in the 1990s, to methodologies like Design Thinking and Strategic Design, keeping the epistemological thread adopted by Herbert Simon. It also proposes a mostly post-structuralist paradigm to create a design that, both in terms of research and design praxis, it is centered around a dis-coursive blueprint. Starting with a project directed towards and collectively made with autistic people, it goes through a theoretical and pragmatic journey in which basic elements of design are discussed and rethought with the goal to explore the possibilites of Design Stemming from Discourse.