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This article has been published in: Ocula 24, Quando è design / When is design / Quand c'est du design

author: Yves Voglaire (PROJEKT (EA 7447) Université de Nîmes (FR))

When it's a designer

language: french

abstract: What makes the specificity of design? What are the skills of a designer? In order to answer to these questions, we will be looking to design as it used to be practiced, and the goals it was assigned. We are going to look for commonalities that make the different design practices bear the same name. Design is able to make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. This sentence is the red thread that will help us to discover how the designer distinguish himself from the other participants to the co-creation, what differentiates expert design from diffuse design in Manzini’s words.

citation information: Yves Voglaire, Quand c’est un designer, "Ocula", vol.21, n.24, pp.173-186, October 2020. DOI: 10.12977/ocula2020-48

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