The power of designing choices

Design has gone viral, all of us today are aware of the responsibility that design has taken on the challenges and crises of our time. After some considerations on these issues, the paper introduces the work carried out by "La Scuola Open Source" and in particular the XYZ2019 experience, and it deepens its methods and processes. A different kind of attitude emerges, balancing a state and quality of "being close" (proximity) and a dynamic encounter that provides energy (collision). The paper identifies some possible paths that match this way of acting. Is a trend inversion possible compared to a past that is no longer repeatable? Inversion defines something that is in-versus, against the common thing. It seeks the novelty by changing the verse: the newness has a subjective concept that includes individual experience and the power to design choices. 1#Introduction; 2#The world has changed; 3#XYZ2019; 4#The Affective in Design; 5#Conclusions