The Foundation renews its support of the Festival Agir pour le Vivant (August 2023, Arles) and is organizing three encounters “Creators facing Climate Emergency” as part of the “Conversations à ciel ouvert” cycle, available as audio podcasts on the website and on listening platforms.
We need to invent new ways of building and making the world, with a view to creating a common space and living sustainably on Earth, making design one of the most important philosophical debates of the years to come.
Anthropologist Arturo Escobar and designer matali crasset discuss the role of design in the light of socio-environmental crises, and question its ability to contribute to living together.
The political, social and ecological impasses in which our societies find themselves are a sign of a fundamental flaw in the way we make the world, and the challenge today is to redesign it, in other words to establish a new technological, social and ecological context capable of accommodating and supporting an ontological reconfiguration. This is the search for ontological or pluriversal design, this innovative critical praxis.
