Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.
The contributions gathered here explore different ways of designing today: producing differently, repairing, maintaining, transmitting, or sometimes choosing to produce less. The object appears in turn as a living archive, a trace of a territory, a mediator of relationships or a vessel for memory. Through these approaches, a vision of design attuned to environments, gestures, and resources takes shape—a design that questions what it still means to make.
Azimuts is a design research journal founded in 1991 by the student-researchers of the post-graduate program of the École supérieure d'art et design de Saint-Étienne. A unique publication in the design editorial landscape, the journal is a place for reflection, exchange, and criticism on the issues of contemporary design and art, as well as a field for experimentation and graphic and typographic research. Azimuts magazine gathers the points of view of personalities from the world of design, culture and research in general. The issues are organized around thematic dossiers on design and, more generally, on material culture or its criticism. The "Varia" section welcomes contributions that are not part of the dossier, and the "Anthology" section allows readers to discover or rediscover texts and documents that are difficult to access (out of print or never translated into French). The "Reviews" section is a space for free criticism of current research and publications on design in the field.
