John Thackara, à propos de la Cité du Design

Je vous ai déjà parlé du designer et théoricien anglais John Thackara dans un précédent post. Dans le passage ci-dessus diffusé dans sa newsletter “Doors of perception”, il commente avec beaucoup de lucidité l'ouverture de la nouvelle Cité du Design à St Etienne :

“SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES - WELL, NEARLY (ST ETIENNE, FRANCE)
A TGV-full of of political and business leaders travelled from Paris to St Etienne for the opening of Cite du design. Sixty four million euros ($93m) has been invested in the conversion of a former armaments manufacturing complex into a new design centre and design school. Everyone from the Minister of Culture (a big deal in France) to St Etienne's Mayor turned up to celebrate this ambitious project. They all agreed that design is a key ingredient in urban design, high tech innovation, and regional development. One suspects that that they all had different ideas about what those words mean, but that probably doesn't matter.
At a conference in St Etienne next month called "Cities of Design" the design-minded cities of Minneapolis, Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Seoul, Portland, Eindhoven and Dortmund will all be represented. 30 November and 01 December, St Etienne. Info: camile.vilain@citedudesign.com"