Everyone is once again starting to think about how to function, how to create. Thanks to this information explosion, projects - like Wikipedia for example - demonstrate how these transformations can be viewed as an enormous opportunity for innovation and, I hope, for humanity. But there’s also a risk. We can’t say if the opening up of this process will always be beneficial. It’s a humanistic gamble!
How does this project reflect the Artscience concept? DE: Artscience is not necessarily the sum of a scientist and an artist or a designer by which we obtain “more than two.” Great creators have two processes of intellectual creation that occur practically simultaneously. There is the process of the dream, the imagination, tinged with risk and uncertainty. And there is an analytical, deductive process that formulates a problem. Mathieu Lehanneur
Great creators use both, by definition. Whether they are artists, scientists or businessmen, great creators get along well, they understand each other easily. They work in different environments, of course. But everyone now knows that innovation often, and perhaps always, comes when you step out one world and enter another. When you enter into a new reality, you see things differently. The Artscience concept is the fusion of these two processes; it’s more than the result. The process, particularly at Le Laboratoire, consists in bringing together a scientist and a designer, as in this case with Mathieu, who brings his world, which I don’t know; and I bring mine, which he doesn’t know. We get along well; we both practice “Artscience” and we believe that the meeting of these two worlds is the basis of innovation.
Basile Gueorguievsky is a sustainable development consultant, who contributed to the book "Il y aura l'âge des choses légères" by Thierry Kazazian [ Victoires Editions, 2003], and has been associated curator of the exhibition "Changer d'Ere", 2006/2007.
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