ECODESIGN – A NEW DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
The term ecodesign evokes, perhaps more than others, the importance of the heritage of civilisation in the culture of the West because it associates and, in some ways, links Greek speculative philosophy with English empiricism, in a horizon of progress and development spanning more than two thousand years.
It is no coincidence that eco derives from Oikos, which in Greek etymology refers specifically to the word house and means the administration of the home, the holding of a territory, but also the study of the common home in which we live. The English term "to design" has a very broad meaning and means to plan, to devise, to conceive products and services in form and function.
The ideal synthesis to give meaning to this compound term could be "Designing according to nature", because the goal is to save the planet. But designing involves a process of analysis of what exists and a vision for the future, and what emerges from the reality in which we live is that the need for ecological transition is becoming more and more urgent every day. The lines of development in the near future are now clearly traced, keeping the earth's average temperature from rising by one and a half degrees within the century is an absolute necessity, otherwise there will be very serious consequences for the climate and the future of the planet, but the road ahead is fraught with obstacles.
