PROJETO PARA FUTURO PRÓXIMO: A representação da complexidade de se projetar e suas relações com as tecnologias digitais

Abstract

The central object of this study is the relationship between the project (act of designing) and digital technology, seeking to develop a critical and careful analysis of the transformations caused by the development, availability and use of such technologies. The research is based on the perception of the behavioral changes caused by digital technologies in society, in relation to the growing dependence on the use of information machines and their interfaces in all contemporary actions. However, it analyzes project processes as a possible language of understanding and control, addressing the systemic complexity of the current development structures of these digital technologies and looking for available points of control and appropriation. This research aims to achieve an understanding and optimization of design processes, in the face of the phenomena of asymmetric decision-making (offered by digital aid systems) and the need to deal with processes of non-things, non-places and non-persons (arising from the generative constructions of emerging artificial intelligence processes). A construction proposal is developed for a new way of designing, called “Design for Near Future” (DfNF). This new design procedure is based on an "immediate/localized" approach to problems, the appropriation of available digital technologies, collaborative development and immediately applicable solutions in a short period of time. The goal is to represent the current design scenario and instrumentalize the players in design practices. This is done by structuring the typology of digital technologies defining their fields of action, the changes brought about by their use and the new conceptual alignments brought about by the digitization and vectorization of project development processes. In order to use the DfNF, a framework was developed to represent the systemic complexity in which design practices take place today, for the actors in Architecture, Engineering and Design projects.