2019
Cairn
Emmanuel Bonnet et al., « Design, a cosmology without a world in the face of the Anthropocene », Sciences du Design, ID : 10670/1.fbe429...
In this article, we examine the cosmological assumptions of contemporary design. We begin by looking at certain definitions of design that have emancipated themselves from industrial design and that highlight a desire to improve the habitability of the world. We also highlight the connections between design and certain managerial approaches to innovation. This leads us to question the notions of project, construction/innovation, production of possibles, temporal and spatial inscription of design, desirability, improvement of habitability, or recovery of the world. We then contrast two ways of looking at design, upstream and downstream of the worlds, depending on whether design is taken as a projection or as a correction. However, abandoning the paradigm of crisis and reincorporating design at the heart of the new climatic regime that now prevails leads us to radically question this double claim. This in turn leads us to frame the challenge in cosmological terms in order to better “de-project” design and thus to replace the human world (which is in fact not a world but an acosmia) with other relationships of consistency between beings.