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maintainer, etc. In the design process a kind of metamorphosis is produced, where
the ideas are mutated until converted into a solution. All the characteristics of the
charge are converted into characteristics of the solution in an epigenic process.
In addition, there are other functional characteristics that have not an exclusively
functional sense –their sense is to create sense55– and must be also object of
design, not in the object itself, but in the subjects whom will use it.
The creation of sense is a subjective process. It can be done only by the mind of
the subject who creates the sense. Sense is always a fact of culture, a product of
culture56. Although, in our society that fact of culture has been trivialized,
naturalized. We only see in the world –at least in a conscious way– a practical
world of uses and functions, a total dominance of the objects, when in reality we
are in a world of sense created by those objects, which also dominate and
condition our behavior. Those objects, being precedents of new ones, condition the
way we will semantize future objects. This is because observation of the objects is
a product of vivential experiences, of our epistemological background.
The sense creation brings out the creation of imageries constructed around the
action of endowing objects with qualities. The process is given exclusively in the
mental world; it is a subjective process, which is done in an individual and/or
collective manner.
Exist then, two types of characteristics. Ones that exist in a real world and others
that only exist in the mental world. Ones that in the moment of being observed, are
independent of the observer, and others that depend of it. This differentiation is
made in virtue of the recognition that by the game of the opposition is made
between the mental–real, between the functional and the semantic.
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It could be said that sense creation is the function of those characteristics, then the difference between the
functional and the semantic would be lost. Note of the Author.