Design in the transition phase: a new design culture for the emerging design

In the present debate, the term 'design' is used with three different meanings: diffuse design, expert design, and co-design. This paper mainly refers to expert design. That is, the members of the design community who, by definition, should be endowed with specific design skills and culture. Given that, assuming that we are already living in transition phase, it proposes to see the contemporary society as a huge future-building laboratory in which a broad and complex learning process is taking place. In this conceptual framework, it discusses the expert design role in general and, in particular, what its specific skills and culture should be.