Design has always been a decisive player in the realm of the disciplines connected to the project, shaping and defining spaces and voids, roles and opportunities. At the same time, the natural making of choices, willy-nilly, generates stereotypes and oppression. The constant, pervasive and horizontal presence of the multiple aspects of the discipline and its applications in people’s lives brings with it an inevitable social mandate. The responsibilities and social awareness of future designers must be built and stimulated during the training phase: in this direction, a critical evaluation, a posteriori, must encompass the changes in society and the futuristic changes in design approaches. We wish to introduce in this paper a crucial disciplinary debate, as imperative as an eleventh principle, added to the ten of Dieter Rams. Could there ever exist a genderless design? Trying to answer, coping with the issue of gender and sustainability, we are offering our reflections about an unanswered question. According to our theoretical observation and discourse, we state that going from a genderless design to a gender-sensitive one is socially more sustainable and reasonable for the future. Among designers’ responsibilities, the ability to comprehend and handle the multiplicity of aspects linked to the mutability of society is a clue point: an aspect that – yesterday, today and tomorrow – never stops influencing people’s lives with close interconnection.
ALLES RICHTIG IST NICHT RICHTIGES FÜR ALLE
Chimenz Luisa;Iebole Sara
2025-01-01
Abstract
Design has always been a decisive player in the realm of the disciplines connected to the project, shaping and defining spaces and voids, roles and opportunities. At the same time, the natural making of choices, willy-nilly, generates stereotypes and oppression. The constant, pervasive and horizontal presence of the multiple aspects of the discipline and its applications in people’s lives brings with it an inevitable social mandate. The responsibilities and social awareness of future designers must be built and stimulated during the training phase: in this direction, a critical evaluation, a posteriori, must encompass the changes in society and the futuristic changes in design approaches. We wish to introduce in this paper a crucial disciplinary debate, as imperative as an eleventh principle, added to the ten of Dieter Rams. Could there ever exist a genderless design? Trying to answer, coping with the issue of gender and sustainability, we are offering our reflections about an unanswered question. According to our theoretical observation and discourse, we state that going from a genderless design to a gender-sensitive one is socially more sustainable and reasonable for the future. Among designers’ responsibilities, the ability to comprehend and handle the multiplicity of aspects linked to the mutability of society is a clue point: an aspect that – yesterday, today and tomorrow – never stops influencing people’s lives with close interconnection.
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