Design and technologies, between sciences and new humanism. Innovation in the education and role of designers

Starting from a critical interpretation of some authors involved in the debate raised by the cal, this paper hypothesizes practicable conditions for a circular, non-pyramidal integration of technological disciptiles into design processes, presenting some experimental investigations in sup-port of these concepts. The paper aims to investigate, in particular, how the role of digital technologies, the key players in a full-blown transformation of thought, Impacts the designer's education models and has a tendency to redefine both the boundaries between disciplines and the very role of the designer. Some significant international experiences in the field of the education of de-signers show that a humanistic approach to controlling technologies and to "ubiquitous" cooperation among strains of knowledge presents a possible scenario of profound rethinking of the role of the technological designer within a framework of shared fragility of the planet's economic models.