Cahier de recherche - Issue 1 - Diversions

Divert your minds from tedious or serious
concerns for an interlude of pleasurable
reading. Diversions is the first issue in
the Cahier de recherche series, featuring
a selection of essays by students of the
Master Product Design at ECAL/University
of Art and Design Lausanne. In these
pages, we introduce the ideas that occupy
a new generation of designers, while documenting
the breadth of their perspectives.

The essays are: Somewhere between the
Human and the Monumental, Vallemaggia,
When the Lobster Met Champagne,
Big Eyes, Take Your Pleasure Seriously,
When Objects Smile Back, Just Enough
Disorder, The Bearable Lightness of
Being, From the Bicycle to the City, First
the Story –Then the Object, Learning
from Darwin, Does Mary Have to Smell Like
a Biscuit ?