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Lift, you present it, is both a festive experience and studious. The framework and context are sumptuous. The organization fluid, discreet and smiling volunteers is very nice. Lift is also the events, a gala dinner, a true artistic experience surprise, hosted the evening which had started well for the organization of an earthquake to sound strange by Fifters (Lift + Fing). Lift the experience is complemented by that Marseille has to offer more sympathetic: evenings on the old port with Minot.

After the festive context, here are some ideas that I take from this vintage 2011.

Days of Lift-Fing Marseille accelerate reflections, emergencies and issues to explore the world we want to build.

LiftFing: Consolidation
A set of recurring themes were present in Lift: open, slow, etc ... I would hold use and the social potential of technology that is still to be developed. Open (open as a way of thinking) can now be called "mainstream." We can almost speak of SurOpeness Openobesité D'or in the thoughts of the moment. The what, why, who and in what context are the questions that will give body to changes in relationships between people, technology and common goods. On the other hand, I think we can open what is grown and processed, but few things finished or intransformables.

Questions about the uses and nature of the services listed in that time are still and always needed to be explored. They are present to lift and we still have work to explain the "business" to "citizens" and "politicians" as the new century. The pedagogy remains present at Lift. Economists, marketers, innovative social business model could be complete the set.
The new conditions and forms of emergence of innovations are to be recalled. And a surge in Twitter to reveal the value of a part of the room for the book Democrating innovation Eric Von Hippel.

Many projects are now based on the principle of openness about it and a sort of obligation to the flattening of organizations. So we are in a period of deployment, sometimes ideological, and "modeling" of this principle to more and more sectors. What is not always necessarily radical.

This has been a Lift Lift consolidation, maturity and initial assessment of new forms of innovation, or rather as I believe a real democratization of the ideas which it is well to remember the fundamentals and goals.

LiftFing: DifferenceCulturelle
The English language has its charms, which the French language does not always justice.

There is a semantic and systematic interference in France between the word "design" used in the English language that means design and design in French which means "industrial development (drawing and design)." The Design I practice, thought projetazzione Gestaltung in German or Italian. In English, it is called "Industrial Design" We are talking about approach, creative, sensitive and proposed solution, while the "design" talks process and problem solving ....

This sometimes leads to confusion about the debate.
Thus, when the Anglo-Saxons defy the technology producers, businesses and organizations with the open design , or lowtech movement. The French design challenges and designers who because of their low power to act does not request time.
This confusion blurs the objectives and avoid focusing on the changes: social, industrial, commercial, marketing and so on credible new emergence of innovation. This semantic misunderstandings gum size use, aesthetic, cultural, sensitive and unique industrial design applied to contemporary objects.

LiftFing: Stimulation
Presentations of Adam Greenfield on the city question the status of open, public interest items. Adam has a reason and nature to this opening. Urban planning is based on the digital challenge not to let only proposals from IBM and Cisco over the city measured (Smart cities) and propose aim of "networked cities", in Digital Cities, towns informed / information and towns focused on relational and social uses "human" being "urban". The digital city, the "old" project of the City Fing 2.0 is still relevant to the issues raised by the Greater Paris and the time course of the planning.

Robin Chase introduces us to his project BuzzCar sharing his vehicle, but also the role of the Internet in the transformation, optimization, fluidity and sharing his personal property. We can talk about transformation of personal property infrastructure elements AdHoc.
It also introduces in his presentation to describe the new areas of innovation the concept of Picnic, an area known to use, location, spontaneous and whose use and sociality are attractive
It complements the notion that we introduced last year to "market place", an area known to known and unpredictable situations where anything can happen in a socially and culturally appropriate.
The challenge of the metaphors of "market place" or "Picnic" is to invent spaces "plausible" economically viable innovations from the Bazaar model (limited and aculturel) and the Cathedral (finished and another time but cultural). In the words of Nicolas Nova, a Tweet: Open innovation doesn't mean anarchy, IS needed leadership, tutoring did tell.

PatientsLikeMe presented by Paul Wicks offers users to inform their symptoms, online treatment ... The radical idea is to locate and share and retrieve data anonymous dating studies or clinical data. After the city sensible, measured the social body, so it is the physical body and health are measured and improved. PatientLikeme allows a commitment to his illness.

A discussion with Tobbie Kerridge, who presented the project Material Beliefs http://www.materialbeliefs.com/ a complete session on the body, health and digital. It will, perhaps in France beingness interesting to integrate these thoughts shared medical record?

LiftFing: The New Artisans Jonathan Kuniholm engineer who is leading the industry oversights on the production of prostheses to repair man. Yet this topic extensively covered in the labs French scientists in particular is left fallow by the industry. Expensive, low series, too personal and specific, all are good reasons not to provide these essential products. Jonathan peak the interest of using mass-produced objects, accessible technology to transform them into products or services or extensions to replace the body. Its about factual, accurate, discreet is the subject of fablab in a fundamental, essential and interesting under the new craft of the XXI century and an important economic credibility.

Kris Decker Low Tech Magazine and No Tech Magazine reminds us that technology as the only vehicle for progress is not the only way. The planned obsolescence, the need to renew artificial products, the potential of techno supposedly infinite and the requirements of increased productivity (rear setback for products with constant costs) require these changes permanent technical reasons sometimes far from the essential and men. Old solutions and technologies can create interesting opportunities.

A win FabLab example also buy a round or a mechanical milling the weight of the metal in addition to a ReRap that does not always work; =). These machines use the same value since they were created, which is not the case of the computer. Emancipates not around people easily (hard to learn) but enhances personal knowledge and values ​​learning. The result is a "language" that allows thin designs and creations. Kris calls for efficiency and elegance of solutions adapted to the context. To MixTechnology: old machines new machines + + + new knowledge to old knowledge and new items?

LiftFing: SoryTelling vs. Design
The injunction to innovate, to open, to be creative, to be emancipated, to program, make a DIY is striking. The storytelling is sometimes caricatured activist. We slap on the big "I'm getting sick of top-down thesis Designed smart homes". But it is funded by them ...
It is said that big companies are not doing a good job, this may be true for some, but others offer products "adequate", "useful" and "desirable". Beyond the tip of a speaker, most of these fictions produce caricatures as strong as they claim to denounce. We absolutely want to believe that real people can do themselves what they need and give it for free, yet pay for it. Perhaps all this is it more subtle? There is in this type of approach (HomeSense, teambuilding) the distance between "Sense and Sensibility *" between reason and sensibility, or between the measure and aesthetics, between history and reality, between the parties and all. An object must express a human sensibility, and an entry in a shared cultural common language. This fiction is not our design. It seems to me that approaches more real, contextual, economic, cultural and recorded in the legitimacy of things and people are much more interesting. A designer is neither a doctor nor a psychologist, much less an advertisement.
The fiction of Storytelling will it kill the reality of our convictions and Design?

* (A tribute to Jane Austen; =))

LiftFing: Best of Show
Workshop on the formidable currency expedition organized by the Mint complementary to the Fing and led by Jean Michel Cornu is diving and the exchange of rich and stimulating Lift 2011.

LiftFing: experiences, freshness and Made in Gaulle.
The architect Alain Renk energetic with UFO , the graphic designer / researcher Geoffrey Dorne and hive that says yes , are examples of proposals devised in France. Lift Experience projects are really interesting demos of asso-bug: the Garden of Knowledge I'm a fan, Tomette 2013, Fish-Pilote, HackableDevice, the trip to Rennes, and objects from projects to Workshop Ensci etc ... ..

LiftFing: meetings
Norbert, Philippe M, Philippe G, Ana, Adam, Robin, Norbert, Licia, Xavier Hubert, Jean Michel Denis, Pierre, Jacques-Francois, Xavier, Thierry, Amandine, Veronique, Jean-Marie Tobias, Axelle, Phil , Florence, Matt, Jean-Michel, Nicolas, Laurent, Daniel and Bernard Moses, sensitive

LiftFing Marseille is a great moment, I do not always understand why there are not more businesses large or small, territorial actors, or rather I do not understand too well. I think the challenge, our challenge is to open this event to more people ... I invite them to come and meet, discuss issues and see the tracks that illuminate what we have to do tomorrow. Owner, Marketer, Project Manager, resp Office study, come work with us ...

Lift by Fing essential is a melting pot of perception changes and changes in French society in a world where we are rather isolated ... It's a risk, and exchange are in an asset-A ... see you at Lift 2012