https://plevy.fr/en/tags/mediums/Recent content in Mediums on Pierre LévyHugoen-GBplevy.frSat, 11 Dec 2021 20:04:12 +0200https://plevy.fr/en/events/mediums-in-design/Sat, 11 Dec 2021 20:04:12 +0200https://plevy.fr/en/events/mediums-in-design/<h2 id="mediums-in-design-seminar-for-a-symmetrical-anthropology-of-design--2022">Mediums in Design seminar, for a symmetrical anthropology of design – 2022</h2> <p>The &ldquo;Mediums in Design&rdquo; seminar is co-led by CY Design Research, Dicen-IDF and the Jean Prouvé Chair of Design at CNAM. It invites members of the design research community to contribute to the understanding of design as an ecosystem made of humans and non-humans, of living and non-living, structuring and structured by practices and achievements.</p> <h3 id="design-a-conversation-with-materials">Design? A conversation with materials</h3> <p>In the 1980s, design research initiated a turn that brought back the materiality of design practices to the forefront. Among the founders of this research, Donald Schön (1992) describes the designer&rsquo;s activity as a &ldquo;conversation with materials&rdquo;: for him, materials are as much words, speeches that we play with and return to, as drawings that allow prefiguring future architectures or objects.</p>