DESIGN: O CONHECIMENTO E A INFORMAÇÃO NO PROCESSO PROJETUAL

Abstract

Design is an activity that involves exploration ofdifferent knowledge areas, what reflected in final product.Design searches novelty and contributes for materialculture. Design is feeds basically of technology; however itoperates with sets of varied, of artistic or technical natureinformation. Project, as constituting ideas transformationdynamic process, does not allow true and certainties, foundto each stage, remain always as such in subsequent stages,because the interpretations of used information change ofmeaning, generating others, transforming the project, inlarger or smaller degree. This way, in process projectinfluence factors that imply in information selectioncollected in and out designer worlds , and whose adequatearticulation it originates products. So the goal of this paperis to argue kinds of necessary information, what ways it arerequired and how they are introduced into the processproject of design.Index Terms ⎯ Design, information types, project process