What relationship between designing and regulating in times of emergency?

Emergency is a constant of our time, and its presence causes a climate of uncertainty. In relation to education, uncer- tainty has always been a feature of the teacher’s actions, but nowadays it has become a pervasive presence that impacts on teaching professionalism and requires a revision of the concepts of design and regulation in action. Our research hypothesis proposes to train future teachers to ‘design for the unexpected’, i.e. getting them used to design patterns setting up a range of possibilities, consistent with the theory of simplexity. The research lasted two academic years and involved almost 400 future teachers enrolled in a teaching methods course at the University of Macerata. Only in the 2022/23 a.y. we proposed students the model. We analyzed both years’ educational designs; results show that students gained greater awareness of their role in regulation and of its causes and modalities; students also became more aware of their decisions.