Social design cartography

Conceptual reasons

Abstract

Framed in the UBACYT productions “Social Design´s Cartography” this work presents “cartography” as a study method applied to the “social design”, a field with poor conceptual accuracy which is linked with a tenacious opposition to the “wild market”, a certain militant vocation against some configurations of de capitalist society in the xxi century´s horizon, and an intense voluntary initiative directed to counteract the “ills” which attempt against the idea of “social harmony” . This diversity indicates under the expressions “social design” or “design for the society”, keeping very different lines, that express different design and social intervention´s conceptions.

Far from mentioning definitions or still and excluding categorizations, cartography, as a social study method in the design field, exposes the diversity with the purpose to act itself with a performance aspect effect over its studied reality. In this article, it is showed the purpose to “create maps”, and it is considered not as a representation of something, if not as the effective action over the existing. To show materiality to the cartographic idea, the researching project looked for the joint between the philosophical proposal and the digital media, building a digital device capable to act in an operative way over its own studied reality. In the next line, the first results are displayed.