> Hello,
>
> Few months ago, I had posted some requests regarding a European study called
> "Design for Future Needs".
>
> The final report, both in short and long version, is now available at the
> following adress :
> www.dffn.org
>
> Click on the Research button to get to the download page.
>
> If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me
> off-list.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Jean Schneider
Dear Jean,
Je voudrais d'abord vous remercier d'avoir mis le rapport ci-dessus à la
disposition de nous tous intéressés au domaine du Design. Bien que ce rapport
soit basé et porte sur les faits européens, j'ai néanmoins trouvé son contenu
très pertinent dans le cadre général de la réflexion en cours sur la
définition et l'orientation de la profession.
It is now commonly agreed that, essentially, "designing" is a purposeful or
future oriented process, and not an immediate application of knowledge. Human
needs are indeed expressed in the present, but they are always met in the
future. And this has to be the future of those directly experiencing the
needs, and not the future as envisaged by the various institutional
interpreters of the individual needs.
Your report has the merit to remind us that we should work in such a
perspective, in a close teamwork with experts in "foresight planning". And
with the four case studies illustrated, you have proven that it really works !
Perhaps the next step, of interest to Design, would be to concentrate on
those methodologies that could specifically help, in a pedagogical setting,
to initiate and train students in Design towards such a collaborative
perspective with other disciplines, like "Foresight" and others. Specifics
that would teach how not to surrender, while working with them, to these
others' methodologies and "future" agendas.
Encore une fois, merci !
François-X. N.I. NSENGA
Teacher and Researcher
in Sociology and Industrial Design
Box 643, Snowdon
Montréal, Québec
CANADA H3X 3X8
Tél.: (514) 737-8300
Fax: (514) 738-8000
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