Ecosophy and production of subjectivities in design

This study highlights the importance of the production of subjectivities in the field of design, especially when considering socio-environmental issues and the reorientation towards ecological thinking. The present article offers Ecosophy, an ethical-aesthetic-political paradigm proposed by Félix Guattari, as a theoretical-methodological framework for regenerative design processes. To illustrate this proposal, a case report is made on a design process and the co-production on registers of ecological subjectivities, and of social and environmental relations. The main effort centered on the development of metadesign contemplations which sought to overcome the subject-object dichotomy and propose an ethics-aesthetics-politics in the form of manifestos to guide the design development process.