The curriculum in Design Sciences at the Iuav University of Venice’s Doctoral School launches the fourth edition of FRID Fare Ricerca in Design, the national forum of design doctorates, with the aim of sharing the results of doctoral research in design and reflecting on the developments of the discipline in its various forms.
The 2019 edition, Boundaries and Contexts. The dual perspective of research in design prompts a reflection both on how research relates to the academic context and on the possible transgressions that lead it to actively engage with the outside world. Frid 2019 thus aims to question the evolution of research in design in contemporary times, not only for an internal discussion within the discipline but to place it within a process of social awareness, to identify and decipher the complexities of the past and those of the present.
Aware of the constant redefinition of configurations of complex societies, we believe it is urgent to engage with both the ways and places in which the discipline of research reproduces itself and the environments with which it should relate. We consider it essential to work towards achieving a reciprocal, equal, and virtuous relationship between the two contexts, academia and the external world. A dialogue that leads to questioning how research can ethically impact forms of social interaction and the production of subjectivity, fields of investigation and work that we believe are at the foundation of every design practice.