MC: How can design contribute to our community and help us navigate the contemporary world? This is the simple yet engaged premise, from which I think and sets anything in motion.
I used to say that design was about making the world more livable. Now we can see that this no longer works in the context of the ecological crisis. There are even two current trends: a major design, which consolidates the norm and the capitalist system; and in parallel, a minor design which has always existed and which is done on a small scale. In my opinion, the practice, which is not very well understood, is based on three skills. The first is the ability to exercise one's critical sense: carrying out a design project has nothing to do with the idea of solving problems, it is, first of all, to say what is no longer acceptable from an ecological point of view. Secondly, it is the ability to project oneself from observations (a bit like anthropologists), then from analysis, to arrive at a creative act. Finally, it is giving form to things, because one knows the manufacturing processes and materials, or creating spaces. Like everyone else, the designer must reconfigure himself today. Since the confinement, I have read even more anthropologists' and philosophers' writings to understand this state of the world in detail. This allows me to cultivate my sensibility, which I bring to bear on specific projects that I share with partners who have the same values, particularly in terms of ecology.