Design and social sustainability: new perspectives for the contemporary city based on participation

The objective of this article is to present some of the possibilities that open in the field of Design from a disciplinary reflection based on concepts still under construction such as social sustainability, social innovation and the practice of social design. Some small-scale collaborative interventions are shown in the contemporary city, in which Design appears as a discipline of social mediation and the designer as a facilitator in search of the solution to urgent problems that improve the quality of life of the communities.