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Why the definition of design might need a change | MIT Technology Review

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When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again.

Why the definition of design might need a change | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content It was drawing, or disegno , as deployed in the making of Italian buildings during the Renaissance, that gave us the word “design”—or such was the enthusiastic explanation I received as an architecture student at the end of the 1990s. History, of course, tells a more complex story. Though there was indeed a key shift in the meaning of “design” between 1300 and 1500, it had less to do with language and more with a fundamental shift in the making of things themselves. The relationship between drawing and des

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