Future
Design and ethical leadership, the Educated Human (EH) versus Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What future for design schools
“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 …
What will being Human mean when robots outsmart us?
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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What if students were trained to innovate…
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 …
Giving Substance and Shape to the Future
Interview done at the launch of the joint work, THE NEW TERRITORIES OF DESIGN; Giving Substance and Shape to the Future – Atlantica Publishing – December 2017 – in partnership with the Landes Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In what way will the future of business rely on Design? On what topics and questions, including …
Design Management: Reawakening “manual labor”, or what Design schools are doing to address and appease the “doing” and “having done”
Just as corporate competitiveness issues are more frequently dotting the economic landscape, where economists and politicians are perpetually, and somewhat in vain, setting up more Ministries, commissions and committees around “economic recovery plans” in a dire attempt to whisk Western countries out of what seems like a never-ending line-up of crises and get back on …
FDE Manifesto
The Design Moment At a time when an entire country – France, and perhaps an entire continent – Europe, is asking itself questions about its identity and future in an open and unstable world, it seems important to take a stand and ask them both their view of this world with its problems and opportunities …
Design school: the school for the managers of tomorrow
In 1994, professors from HEC published a book entitled, “SCHOOL FOR THE MANAGERS OF TOMORROW.” Its focus was on pondering the changes in teachings, methods of learning, frameworks, and more generally, how the changes in the environment and with regard to responsibility would take precedence over the growing number of management and business schools as …
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