Make Sense, Not Things

Voici un très bon texte de John Thackara, un des meilleurs théoriciens anglais du moment (c'est un designer) sur l'épineuse question de la façon dont le design est enseigné dans les écoles, et ce que ça implique en termes d'environnement.

"What would architects design, if they did not design buildings? What would designers design, if they did not design products, or posters?

My question is not a rhetorical one. On the contrary, I believe design schools are in danger of being marginalised by events. The world is changing around them fast - and they are not. Or not fast enough. I agree with Al Gore that the world has reached a tipping point in its responses to climate change, resource depletion, and economic crisis: Changes we have all talked about for years are starting to be implemented.

But design schools are finding it hard to move on from the old paradigm of design-for-production, and design for individual expression."

Télécharger la suite sur doors of perception - très bon blog très ancien publié par J. Thackara. Il a écrit plusieurs livres dont Design After Modernism dont je vous met l'excellente couverture (1988 !)