A new Design for the spiritual man

Design in the 21 century

In this 21st century, the design should reinvent itself urgently. We must stop emphasizing and enhancing only the material — physical side of man, as it has done so far with great failure in all senses.

It must exist from another perspective, the “spiritual”, therefore creating a new reality of material production, consumption and disposal in accordance with the universal principles of respect , culture and education. A universe that includes the Earth and its human inhabitants.

Material x Spiritual

The design in a ideal given situation would be to balance the material and spiritual man. But it happened the opposite, design contributing to unbalanced the relationship between material and spiritual man.

As an example, technology is both slave and owner of the material man, giving us a false sense of stability, security and progress.Technology could represent our material progress, however, which indicators we have of our spiritual progress?

The current financial and ecological crises are just “one” manifestation of the spiritual poverty of the man and his lack of respect for all life, including his.

We are designers,”builders” of realities, capable of generating new paradigms through innovative products, services, business models, so we can create new and positive awareness, behaviors, attitudes in order to successfully build a sustainable society in the future, in which relationship between material and spiritual man will be in balance.

Designer´s moral obligation

As designers we have a moral obligation to propose, design and innovate with a new vision, creating design with real and significant benefits for all.

If not, which would be the reason of the existence of design? Just consumption since the Industrial Revolution?

The perception of the design will be only different when it reach a new meaning bringing quality of life for all and therefore being understood by all.

To create a “21 century design” the spiritual man must be the new center of attention, and from there to propose a new reality of sustainable life-cycles (design, manufacture, consumption and disposal) aiming “human centered well-being” benefits. Benefits that will ecologically educate and spiritual enhance the society.

Design and Sustainability

In this new times, design must be regarded as a “tool for environmental awareness” to allow us to have and make better choices individually and collectively now and the near future. Design has this main role of breaking, creating and re-shaping paradigms towards environmentally friendly new life-styles.

Also design is only wrongly available for those who can buy it, when design should be a universal basic right and as essential as education, food, health.

Designing for the spiritual man means to respect the Earth and nature, optimizing our material surroundings, visible and invisible, creating quality of life for all.

The “sustainable design” is also new attitude toward the design where man finally acknowledge that is part of Earth and not just isolated in his supposed greatness and intelligence.

The material man must give up immediately his / her seat to the spiritual man and thus build a new material reality according to the 21st century through a new education, culture and especially peace, and peace with himself.

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