Unraveling Design Principles from Buchanan’s thinking = Desentrañando los principios de diseño del pensamiento de Buchanan

Ricardo López-León


DOI: https://doi.org/10.20868/ardin.2024.13.5216

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Producing new knowledge and training design professionals are constant concerns in Buchanan's discourse. The author seeks to provoke debate, motivate reflection, and identify gaps in both contexts. Therefore, he proposes to rethink the design disciplines and to reconstruct them. This article introduces Buchanan's ideas, first, around the development of new knowledge, followed by a review and discussion of his "four orders"; then, it proposesto interpret these same orders as principles, given that, from the point of view of this research, it might be more nourishing for the construction of knowledge to rethink Buchanan's concepts as principles instead of orders: the symbolic, material, action, and systems principle. Moreover, instead of four, a fifth principle based on the author's concepts is conceived: the transition principle, which takes his ideas from a transitional perspective. In this article, I propose five principles to trigger reflection and thinking, develop new knowledge in design, and question the structures through which we train design professionals, intentions faithfully rooted in Buchanan's thinking.

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Producir nuevos conocimientos y formar profesionales del diseño son preocupaciones constantes en el discurso de Buchanan. El autor siempre busca suscitar el debate, motivar la reflexión, e identificar lagunas en ambos contextos. Por ello, propone repensar las disciplinas del diseño y reconstruirlas. Este artículo introduce las ideas de Buchanan, primero, en torno al desarrollo de nuevos conocimientos, seguido de una revisión y discusión de sus “cuatro órdenes”; después, se propone interpretar estos mismos órdenes como principios, dado que, desde el punto de vista de esta investigación, podría ser más nutritivo para la construcción del conocimiento repensar los conceptos de Buchanan como principios en lugar de órdenes: el principio simbólico, material, de acción y de sistemas. Además, en lugar de cuatro, se propone un quinto principio basado en los conceptos del autor: el principio de transición, que contempla sus ideas desde una perspectiva transicional. En este artículo, propongo cinco principios para desencadenar la reflexión y el pensamiento, con el objetivo de contribuir al desarrollo de nuevos conocimientos en diseño y cuestionar las estructuras a través de las cuales formamos a los profesionales del diseño, intenciones fielmente arraigadas al pensamiento de Buchanan.


Keywords


Design Principles; Buchanan’s Thinking; philosophy; Four Orders; Principios del Diseño; Pensamiento de Buchanan; Filosofía; Cuatro Órdenes

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