Design Culture of Multiplicity. Through Gender, Pluralism and Diversity

The paper analyses the meanings of the multiplicity concept and introduces how design works in the three aspects of Gender, Pluralism, Diversity. The notion of multiplicity has achieved close attention mostly through Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy, which explored this concept and its ramifications also working with Félix Guattari on their famous book A Thousand Plateaus (1987). As the territories in which design is applied are growing, the radical changes – ecological, social, economic – that we are facing need interpretative and designing tools that only multiple and original points of view can provide. They need to balance the roots with the dispersions, fronting the emergencies.