The Role of Design Research in a Postindustrial Society

Abstract

: The following article reflects on an ongoing research study about the new roles of Design in our contemporary postindustrial society and the direction that higher education may point to in order to foresee change and to redraw its role. Such considerations should be considered as the foundational hypothesis for research at the PhD Program in Product Design and the Master of Science in Product Design at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).