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Announcement RChD: Creación y Pensamiento |Vol. 10 Nº 18| JUN 2025 | Dossier: The multiscalar. Deadline for full manuscript submission: December 31, 2024. 

Design specialist for social challenges: Subject, Actor and Agency/Agent?

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  • Irma Hernández López Ciudad de México, México.
Vol. 6 No. 10 (2021): June
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2021.63945

Abstract

This article reflects on the question: Is the designer a subject, actor or agent in social challenges? Once designers define their role in the Design challenge, it determines their decisions and the impact of their Design solution. The role that the designer plays will have a direct impact on the goal of the potential proposal. The challenge of revictimization is taken as an example to analyze and illustrate the differences when assuming a role of subject, actor or agent. The analysis is based on a literature review and the results are introduced in a comparative table. It is concluded that it is essential that designers define and acknowledge, from start to finish, the role they will assume in the Design challenge because it will guide their Design process. Designer's decisions have a direct positive or negative impact on people and communities. In the case study example, it can mitigate revictimization or, on the contrary, increase it.

Keywords:

Actor, agency, revictimization, social challenges, subject.

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Hernández López, I. (2021). Design specialist for social challenges: Subject, Actor and Agency/Agent?. RChD: Creación Y Pensamiento, 6(10), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-837X.2021.63945
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