Artifices Naturels
2020
Mémoire de recherche en design / Research thesis
[FR] En se plaçant en "maitre et possesseur de la nature" (Descartes, Le Discours de la Méthode, 1637), l'Homme a laissé sa trace partout. Aujourd'hui la crise écologique et les destructions des milieux naturels sont probablement des signes des excès des modes de vies humains. Quels sont les rapports des humains au non-humains ? Quelles sont les imbrications de l'artifice et de la nature ? Il y a là matière à penser pour tenter de dessiner des modes de productions plus vertueux, des manières de “travailler-avec”, de faire collaborer humains et non-humains.
[EN] At the start, there is a concern about becoming a designer in a world that is already overflowing with objects. Then there is a production system that seems exemplary, that of sea salt.
This thesis is based on an exploratory photographic approach. Then an analytical look at this landscape to question the exemplary value of this production system. Its singularity is that it involves human and non-human energies. Carrying a designer’s point of view on these interweavings of artifice and nature makes it possible
to imagine a design approach aimed at drawing and determining these interweavings.
The designer then becomes programmer, director, he gives the impetus before letting go, in goodunderstanding with the environment.
