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  Design, Research... Innovation  



 

Design is a strategic weapon in business. Having made this assertion, however, we still need to know its implications. What are we talking about when we use the word “design”? And what is its role in the innovation process? Designers and engineers are both involved in research, but they approach it from different angles. Today, a company like SNCF has a critical need for this kind of dual vision. Value creation is moving upstream from production. The engineer-designer duo is emblematic of this shift, and the concept train, a four-year-old SNCF initiative that is yielding its first results, is an illustration of it.


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   Contents
  Articles

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Design, Research... Innovation
2/
The National School of Industrial Design and SNCF: a project laboratory for rail comfort
3/
ACONIT: what creates a feeling of overall comfort?



Projects

1/
Toilets on the train: Use, maintenance, comfort
2/
Tuning in to the stations



Interviews

1/
Armand Hatchuel: Engineers and designers team up for innovation
2/
Patrick Susini: “Industry needs functional, aesthetic and scientifically designed sound forms”



Viewpoints


The emotional power of light
1/
Yo Kaminagai, head of the Design and Cultural Projects Unit at the RATP
2/
Louis Clair, lighting designer and founder of the agency Light Cibles
3/
Jean-Yves Stachera,
specialist in light
ambience at the Rolling
Stock Engineering Centre


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