A country’s culinary tradition is one of the constituent elements of the concept of nation. It reflects and affirms its culture and thus its difference, its geography, its history. Eating testifies to where one comes from. Eating creates society. Eating is a pleasure. Eating excites the senses and desire. Eating is orgasmic. “In the beginning …
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt” tells us the English astrophysicist Stephen Hawking who died in 2018. But adapt to what and for what ideal? In this world of information and knowledge available to all, of generative artificial intelligence, is it a question of embodying the “Educated Human” of the post-modern era and thinking that …
A more fundamental question might be, what role will Design and designers play in crafting, creating, characterizing, and charting the world of tomorrow? From the moment the weight of tedious tasks are lifted from our daily lives and our human ability to think, learn and adapt will pale in comparison to the threat of superior …
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The perception of design has evolved in recent years to finally become applicable to all issues and fields and to establish its strategic nature to support businesses and society in general. design continues to reflect on the shape of objects, interior architecture, graphics… but it now embodies all the strategic concerns of transformation of economic …
‘The entrepreneurial mindset of the designer is a central concern of training institutions. An idea is worth nothing, even the most desirable one, if it is not tested by the markets and/or society in general. It is not a question of turning all designers into company managers, as the latter have specific skills that not …
(Written for the preface to the catalog of the exhibition“Jules Verne – 20000 leagues under the sea” – Works carried out by NACAA studentssupervised by Jean Baptiste Blanc) Design questions the uses of tomorrow, it draws them, represents them, gives them form and meaning. it makes them desirable. If the ability to desire what we …
6 years ago, I published in the columns of Office and Culture an article with the provocative title “What is being human when robots are smarter than us? “. It had aroused some offended and bellicose reactions, not very well argued, however, some being able to console themselves with the definition of intelligence, the content …
Education, chat GPT and other devilry,
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L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique moved into its new premises in September 2022. The new building was designed by the architects Marc Mimram and Gaelle Pesneau in collaboration with the design firm Jouin-Mankku. 116OO M2 dedicated to design and educating people in creation and innovation. Nantes Métropole, the Pays de Loire Region, the European Union …
Manifesto for a Design School – The desire to build a simpler world Read More »
We are currently experiencing radical changes in industrial and marketing paradigms, in a world that has become unstable due to international conflicts. The “scientific management” on which industrial structures have been organized since the middle of the 19th century is no longer sufficient to govern organizations. For many companies, “doing better and better what we …