Browse "between light and stroll" through a misty morning the old factory, a huge set of beautiful industrial buildings, now silent immerses you in a pure sense of disorientation, a strange experience design time suspended between a past world and one possible future.
The future is here in this place, as the intended strength and toughness with an entire community, the Cité du Design in Saint Etienne, who joined today, elected by UNESCO, the global network design creative cities.
drunkenness before the advance extraordinary information technology and communication and excites the imagination, as if to exorcise their power to advance at once a tone of extreme view is given by the theme teleportation.
Should the loss of belief or hope for a better living together is powerful enough to divert us towards utopia of parallel worlds beyond space and time, or the fantasies of an augmented reality. The case is being heard, we will never be here and there.
In relation to a "world system" which we incur excess and generalized malaise then, suddenly shrunk the territory of our little planet is the closest the sensitive and human, we want to find physical contact with our reality of the here and now, we keep an exuberance irrational "everything is possible" change of dreams, Patrick Viveret calls for "out of the logic of excess that only generate unease and unhappiness."
We are promised the gradual dematerialization of our environment and good to see he is nothing when one reads the various themes of the Biennale, "Tomorrow is Today, "" predict, "" Mobile City "," comfort "," between reality and impossible. "
is something else which reads in reality substantial number of concepts presented imaginary powered by designers at the Biennale. Item
large progressive utopia but a freedom of conscience re-found, multiple attempts at the margins or in the advanced industrial research exchange, produce, act locally in the spirit of "fab labs", a desire to remember and to look attentive the sources of human consciousness of environmental emergency, the will all combine to re-understand and re-take control of what escapes us, re-find the link between idea and object, re-find the word and situational intelligence to re-create objects that speak to us, re-feel the obligation to take * a social contract and moral when renewing concepts and practices, re-define all the power of the network a better and sustainable world.
research design of the 7th Biennial announces that a great "peaceful resistance design" is running for "re-bind" all that has been released here and there, what we lost, our relationship with nature, our relationship to the social bond, the care of another, in effect, to the point.
Further proof if any were needed that the design becomes a political issue that mass is the responsibility of everyone. Saint Etienne proves it. * Benjamin
Loyalty
photo: Qdrum, 1193 / © PJ Hendrikse
