The work described in this paper examines some of the ways in which creative design can guide and interact with materials science and material fabrication leading towards programmable material systems through integrated informatics that leads to innovation in 'calm technology' that is burdenless for the user. Putting these together, you create a powerful Design:STEM Interactive platform that can significantly influence and enhance both the fabrication and function of novel products and devices that can significantly effect everyone's Future Ways of Living. In between, the development of 3 and 4D bio-nano hybrid materials with functionalities similar or superior to Silicon will allow the evolution of 'soft' machines and programmable surfaces and interfaces with intelligence through associated informatics, VR, AR and AI providing tangible materials 2 materiality 2 material experiences.
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By 2099, we will understand how to design and fabricate materials at the molecular and biomolecular level. Thus we have to examine the conditions in which an outcome could be built linking these two issues.įashion and creative design are a window on how we have and how we will live. This implies to combine two ways of reasoning: the "properties" and "validity" ones which are self-referential and cannot immediately match or even fit. Based on a social sciences research dealing with a medical nanotechnology and supported by the French CNRS and the Occitanie Region, we will show that a r easoned developement of nanotechnologies must rely on, and combine two criteria: technical efficacity and some kind of legitimation by civil society representations, namely associations. As we can learn from the thematization process of risks, any innovation must be submitted to a validity test, which supposes taking into account social norms, notably that, progressively shaped by public debates, relating to the environment and health topics. In particular, the benefits of a (nano)technology cannot be assessed only in accordance to its technical properties beacause properties are only part of the problem.
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But benefits (or risks) of nanos could be differently assessed, according to professional experts or citizens points of views. In a classical benefits/risks approach, benefits are often considered in a very technical way: professional experts are supposed to understand what should be understood. In a perspective, notably in France, framed by “the imperative of precaution”, researches on nanos are confronted to the necessity (and the difficulty) of defining what a benefit is. The purpose of this presentation is to examine the reasons why the notion of “benefits from nanotechnologies” appears to be much more complex than generally supposed. However, to be sustainable, this approach should be somewhat theorized. They also have insisted on the necessity of adopting a benefits/risks approach to show that nanotechnologies cold bring some "progress" to "people". Facing these disputes, scientific or political institutions have classically proposed to improve communication between stakeholders according to the famous "deficit model of communication", which has not worked since we can observe that the controversies have not stopped. since the early 2000's, controversies on their risks have spread in many countries. Since the beginning of the nanotechnology ambitious policies, i.e.