Trials

On 27 and 28 November 2007, the first edition of the Entretiens du nouveau monde industriel was held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The talks focused on the issues surrounding what is known as bottom-up innovation and the shaping of our lives by industrial transformations in the age of digital technologies (as cognitive technologies and cultural technologies), and at the dawn of so-called “transformational” technologies (biotechnologies and nanotechnologies). The changes underway and the contradictions they generate require us to rethink the practices of research & development and design - a term understood here in a broad sense, and which now applies to all aspects of our lives. What are the political, social and economic implications? How is the industrial model itself being transformed? This model, forged in the nineteenth century, led after the Second World War to the planetarisation of the consumer society. Nowadays, however, it seems to be both encountering its limits and opening up new possibilities by overturning the producer/consumer opposition (particularly in the digital field) and conferring on both matter and living things a plasticity hitherto inconceivable

Design is in fact becoming an activity for sculpting the individual and society, opening up and assigning unprecedented perspectives and responsibilities - as exhilarating as they are overwhelming. A new relationship between industrial design and the everyday practices of life is being defined.

"Interfaces : un rôle pour le design"
by Jean-Louis Frechin

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Language: French
Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 2755500751

Contribution

Mille Et Une Nuits

2008