Multiple Intelligences of Design

“These are lived, common experiences that motivate my thinking on the design and the challenges of its forms of research. […]” (Lysianne Léchot Hirt, Research creation in design at full speed…) This book brings together a selection of significant essays by Lysianne Léchot Hirt, Swiss design historian, researcher and educator who has contributed greatly to theorize research-creation in design. Research-creation is characterized by its interdisciplinarity: it offers a concrete horizon for reflection on contemporary issues of design and related disciplines (urban planning, art, etc.), thereby establishing a position intermediary in the fertile conversation between art and design. This work considers research-creation approaches as a form ethnography or anthropology and invites us to rethink our daily lives, by example through the resolution of technical issues and the invention of new ways of relating between people. The texts of Léchot Hirt and the other essays collected in this volume defend the thesis that research is essential to the construction of a view critical and lucid about our present, while contributing to the construction of our future.