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Reset Design Lab
reset Design Lab assists organizations in addressing their transformation challenges, in order to build, formalize and embody a vision, with the resulting commitments, in their daily activities. Beyond questioning our reasons for being and acting for a desirable and sustainable world, it is a question of moving from the "why" to the "how"
Presentation du laboratoire
Launched in 2022, as an extension of the Exalt Design Lab program, reset Design Lab proposes to use action research to deploy strategies for aligning and bringing coherence to organizations (company with a mission, CSR approach, redirection...).
As the negative effects of the Anthropocene multiply, the explorations offered by local or voluntarily marginal initiatives are clearly not enough to trigger a global transformation. Rather than developing their mastery of external conditions, today's organizations must seek to create coherence and consistency. Less predicting, more sensing - changing the level of consciousness to address complex issues, as Albert Einstein invited, followed by the deep ecology movement in the 1970s.
Redirection practices (theorized by design thinker Tony Fry) offer an interdisciplinary conceptual and operational framework within which design can act, provided it decenters its thinking and practice. reset Design Lab thus connects sources of knowledge and inspiration [human and social sciences + collective intelligence + design] to imagine and make sensitive experiences that make sense and engage. Used as an interdisciplinary integrator, design gives substance to initiatives and stimulates visceral understanding, thanks to which individual and collective behaviors can change in depth.
This is why this common laboratory functions as a learning community that shares convictions, experiences and questions, in order to build a deeply transformative knowledge that creates shared wealth. Let's make the ecological challenge we are facing the opportunity of a fruitful break to :
- embody our reasons for being
- contribute and create positive impact
- express the full human potential.
Team:
- Estelle Berger, Head of the joint laboratory
- Ioana Ocnarescu, Strate Research Director
- Emna Kamoun, PhD, Strate Research Researcher
C'est quoi un labo commun : fonctionnement, originalité et enjeux du laboratoire
Since 2017, Strate Research has developed a unique "common laboratory" model that engages academic partners, organizations and institutions in a co-construction and project research approach around company theses (CIFRE theses). The duration of a laboratory is 4 years, the time needed to host theses for 3 years and to build a learning community around the issues and themes shared by the partners.
Following the example of Exalt Design Lab, the joint Reset Design Lab brings together business and academic partners in different formats:
- Learning community. To share a human adventure and ensure that the knowledge created within the lab is truly transformative;
- CIFRE theses. To study a subject in depth, experiment and create appropriable knowledge;
- Experiments. To carry out transformative actions with the means of design, nourished by the practices of redirection, SHS and complexity;
- Scientific production. To confront an issue with the contributions of research and imagine how to transpose them;
- Training and support. To discover inspiring expertise and practices, to support reflexivity and/or the development of skills in internal teams.
La recherche
Building, transforming and inhabiting this world must be done in full awareness of its limits, and of our own. The time for problem solving and anthropocentrism is over. Paradoxical tensions, interdependencies and externalities are objects of design in their own right, which calls for new postures:
- Faced with the injunction to innovate, let's take care of the quality of our living environments.
- Faced with models that no longer work, let's adopt fairer, more responsible and cooperative strategies.
- Faced with individual and collective discouragement, let's deploy a creative, constructive and concrete critique.
The laboratory's work program is based on these three research axes, with the support of CIFRE theses and action research projects. More information on the partners and activities from September 2022.
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