Hybrid Design: Technology–Society–Education
Abstract
At the threshold of the 21st century, the discipline of design is undergoing a profound transformation: at the intersections of art, science, design, technology, psychology, ecology, and the social sciences, hybrid design emerges as a new way of thinking and a potential scientific field one that adopts the perspective and vocabulary of network research as its primary tools. Hybrid design is capable of interpreting different systems, thinking within them, and eventually integrating them. The hybrid designer no longer designs mere objects, but relationships networks in which humans, art, machines, and nature learn from one another [1,2]. In this third article, I examine the collaboration between technology and society through joint research with APFM-Systems and MedHubAI, analyzing their latest pilot project and its potential for social education. This Hungarian-based collaboration serves as a living example of a technological ethical ecosystem in which building management algorithms and the artificial intelligence of medical empathy form a shared learning system [3,4].The aim of the joint research and project is to use technology not merely for efficiency, but for social education and moral development by reinterpreting maintenance, healthcare communication, and data flow as affective and educational spaces [5,6]. I demonstrate how, in this context, a hybrid designer becomes an ethical curator rather than a traditional form-giver: an interdisciplinary creator capable of building bridges between human sensitivity and technological learning. The joint development by MedHubAI and APFM-Systems illustrates how technology can become a medium of empathy, care, and collective learning and how hybrid design may be understood as one of the potential new scientific disciplines of the 21st century [7,8].
Keywords
The discipline of design; hybrid design; social education; moral development.
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