Manufacturing technologies are political, in the sense that their inner mechanisms and materials, speed, dimensions, accessibility or openness create specific agencies. They favor and organise certain type of production ecosystems. At the age of the ecological crisis, imagining radically new ways to make has become a necessity. Emile De Visscher’s research aims to shift from a product design practice to a “process design” practice, as to address the problem at its core rather than the output.
Each research project thus becomes a way to question, test, and share alternative technological future, addressing central notions like productivity, permanence, know-how, territorialization or activity. By being presented, shared and discussed publicly, they become ways to foster a democratic debate about the technologies modern societies should rely on in the future.
