r/evolution: « design does not impose, it proposes »
Design brings solutions to everyday life. Designers are the engine of this progress, whether they are embedded, avowed, protagonists or applied, they capture the evolutions in our life styles and translate them into products or services. By adopting them, we validate these innovations. Design is at the heart of change. It doesn’t impose, it proposes.
r/evolution: « design at the time of the 3rd industrial revolution »
Design was born with the industrial revolution. The technological progress of the 19th century caused a transition from an agrarian, artisanal world towards an industrial, commercial society. The evolutions of our lifestyle have been considerable. This is how design emerged as a discipline, as a response to a new system of production. By associating creation with the industrial process, design shifted the borders of technological process; consequently, innovation had new imperatives – function, use, aesthetics and comfort. The third industrial revolution, caused by its extension into new realms and the normalization of digital technologies, seems like it will have similarly dramatic effects. Design
and designers have a role to play in this transformation: to put these technologies at the service of humanity.
r/evolution: « extending the field of design »
Social, economic and technological changes have caused us to question even the practice of design. The methods developed by the discipline have been proved to be efficient. Indeed, co-creation systems, the value placed on studying the field and uses, the recognition of the need for synthesis and using constraints to find a specific solution, are now emulated by other sectors. Sound design, design management, design service, public design, design thinking… a r/evolution of the discipline and its actors is underway.
Once upon a tomorrow… the r/evolution!
Once upon a time… just like a fairy-tale, this anaphora has become part of the Festival programme for this year, introducing a poetic, narrative approach to the future. It’s an invitation to imagine new ideas, to share a story to come,
a scenario, to ensure our minds are sensitive to the possibilities of tomorrow.
Repeated like a musical refrain, this anaphora will be used throughout the D’Days communications and venues in the lead-up to and during the Festival.
Scott Longfellow
The Dates
Between the 30th of May and 5th of June 2016
Festival opening party
at the Arts Décoratifs
30 May
7pm – 9pm
Late night
7pm – 11pm
30 May: Palais Royal
31 May: Bac – Saint-Germain
1 June: Marais – République – Bastille
Think Life International Design Forum
Think: conferences at the Carreau du Temple
31 May to 1 June
9am – 6pm
Share and Learn: meetings, exhibitions, workshops
31 May to 4 June
12am – 8pm
Carte blanche Think Life by D’Days
Dessine-moi un monde durable au Festival We Love Green
5 june
3pm – 5pm
Le Corps du Canal
Inauguration of the co-created sports course on the Plaine de l’Ourcq
4 June
10am – 1pm
Sound Design Party
A day of sound design at the Gaîté lyrique
4 June
3pm – 12pm
Opening hours
Tuesday 31 to Saturday 4
12am – 8pm
Sunday 5
12am – 7pm