WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 You will understand nothing with my type of English. 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:14.000 It's good for you because you can have a break after all these fantastic people. 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:19.000 I must tell you I am like that, not very comfortable, 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:25.000 because usually, in life, I think my job is absolutely useless. 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:29.000 I mean, I feel useless. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:36.000 Now after Carolyn, and all the other guys, I feel like shit. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:44.000 And definitively, I don't know why I am here, 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:48.000 but -- you know the nightmare you can have, like you are an impostor, 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:52.000 you arrive at the opera, and they push you, "You must sing!" 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.000 I don't know. (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:00:55.000 --> 00:01:04.000 So, so, because I have nothing to show, nothing to say, 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.000 we shall try to speak about something else. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.000 We can start, if you want, by understanding -- 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:16.000 it's just to start, it's not interesting, but -- how I work. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:23.000 When somebody comes to me and ask for what I am known, 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:32.000 I mean, yes, lemon squeezer, toilet brush, toothpick, beautiful toilet seats, 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.000 and why not -- a toothbrush? 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.000 I don't try to design the toothbrush. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.000 I don't try to say, "Oh, that will be a beautiful object," or something like that. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.000 That doesn't interest me. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 Because there is different types of design. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:51.000 The one, we can call it the cynical design, 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:54.000 that means the design invented by Raymond Loewy in the '50s, 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:01.000 who said, what is ugly is a bad sale, la laideur se vend mal, which is terrible. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:06.000 It means the design must be just the weapon for marketing, 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:10.000 for producer to make product more sexy, like that, 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.000 they sell more: it's shit, it's obsolete, it's ridiculous. 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.000 I call that the cynical design. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:23.000 After, there is the narcissistic design: 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.000 it's a fantastic designer who designs only for other fantastic designers. (Laughter) 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:36.000 After, there is people like me, who try to deserve to exist, 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:44.000 and who are so ashamed to make this useless job, who try to do it in another way, 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:51.000 and they try, I try, to not make the object for the object but for the result, 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:56.000 for the profit for the human being, the person who will use it. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:01.000 If we take the toothbrush -- I don't think about the toothbrush. 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.000 I think, "What will be the effect of the brush in the mouth?" 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:11.000 And to understand what will be the effect of the toothbrush in the mouth, 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:14.000 I must imagine: Who owns this mouth? 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.000 What is the life of the owner of this mouth? In what society [does] this guy live? 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 What civilization creates this society? 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:30.000 What animal species creates this civilization? 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.000 When I arrive -- and I take one minute, I am not so intelligent -- 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:40.000 when I arrive at the level of animal species, that becomes real interesting. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.000 Me, I have strictly no power to change anything. 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:50.000 But when I come back, I can understand why I shall not do it, 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:58.000 because today to not do it, it's more positive than do it, or how I shall do it. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:05.000 But to come back, where I am at the animal species, there is things to see. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 There is things to see, there is the big challenge. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.000 The big challenge in front of us. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:15.000 Because there is not a human production 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:20.000 which exists outside of what I call "the big image." 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:25.000 The big image is our story, our poetry, our romanticism. 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.000 Our poetry is our mutation, our life. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:35.000 We must remember, and we can see that in any book of my son of 10 years old, 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:43.000 that life appears four billion years ago, around -- four billion point two? NOTE Paragraph 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:44.000 Voice offstage: Four point five. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.000 Yes, point five, OK, OK, OK! (Laughter) I'm a designer, 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.000 that's all, of Christmas gifts. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:57.000 And before, there was this soup, called "soupe primordiale," 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:00.000 this first soup -- bloop bloop bloop -- 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.000 sort of dirty mud, no life, nothing. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:08.000 So then -- pshoo-shoo -- lightning -- pshoo -- arrive -- 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.000 pshoo-shoo -- makes life -- bloop bloop -- and that dies. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:16.000 Some million years after -- pshoo-shoo, bloop-bloop -- ah, wake up! 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:22.000 At the end, finally, that succeeds, and life appears. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:29.000 We was so, so stupid. The most stupid bacteria. 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Even, I think, we copy our way to reproduce, you know what I mean, 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.000 and something of -- oh no, forget it. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:43.000 After, we become a fish; after, we become a frog; 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:50.000 after, we become a monkey; after, we become what we are today: a super-monkey, 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.000 and the fun is, the super-monkey we are today, is at half of the story. 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:01.000 Can you imagine? From that stupid bacteria to us, 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:07.000 with a microphone, with a computer, with an iPod: four billion years. 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:15.000 And we know, and especially Carolyn knows, that when the sun will implode, 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.000 the earth will burn, explode, I don't know what, 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:23.000 and this is scheduled for four, four billion years? 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:29.000 Yes, she said, something like that. OK, that means we are at half of the story. 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.000 Fantastic! It's a beauty! 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:34.000 Can you imagine? It's very symbolic. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:39.000 Because the bacteria we was had no idea of what we are today. 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:45.000 And today, we have no idea of what we shall be in four billion years. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:48.000 And this territory is fantastic. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.000 That is our poetry. That is our beautiful story. 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:58.000 It's our romanticism. Mu-ta-tion. We are mutants. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:05.000 And if we don't deeply understand, if we don't integrate that we are mutants, 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.000 we completely miss the story. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:12.000 Because every generation thinks we are the final one. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:15.000 We have a way to look at Earth like that, you know, 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.000 "I am the man. The final man. 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:25.000 You know, we mutate during four billion years before, but now, because it's me, we stop. Fin. (Laughter) 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:31.000 For the end, for the eternity, it is one with a red jacket." 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:36.000 Something like that. I am not sure of that. (Laughter) 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:42.000 Because that is our intelligence of mutation and things like that. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.000 There is so many things to do; it's so fresh. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:54.000 And here is something: nobody is obliged to be a genius, 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.000 but everybody is obliged to participate. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:04.000 And to participate, for a mutant, there is a minimum of exercise, a minimum of sport. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.000 We can say that. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.000 The first, if you want -- there is so many -- 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:14.000 but one which is very easy to do, is the duty of vision. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.000 I can explain you. I shall try. 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:26.000 If you walk like that, it's OK, it's OK, you can walk, 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:32.000 but perhaps, because you walk with the eyes like that, you will not see, oh, there is a hole. 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.000 And you will fall, and you will die. Dangerous. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:41.000 That's why, perhaps, you will try to have this angle of vision. 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:48.000 OK, I can see, if I found something, up, up, and they continue, up up up. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:57.000 I raise the angle of vision, but it's still very -- selfish, selfish, egoiste -- yes, selfish. 00:08:57.000 --> 00:08:59.000 You, you survive. It's OK. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:06.000 If you raise the level of your eyes a little more you go, 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.000 "I see you, oh my God you are here, how are you, I can help you, 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:15.000 I can design for you a new toothbrush, new toilet brush," something like that. 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:19.000 I live in society; I live in community. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:27.000 It's OK. You start to be in the territory of intelligence, we can say. 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:34.000 From this level, the more you can raise this angle of view, 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:38.000 the more you will be important for the society. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:43.000 The more you will rise, the more you will be important for the civilization. 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:49.000 The more you will rise, to see far and high, like that, 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:53.000 the more you will be important for the story of our mutation. 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:59.000 That means intelligent people are in this angle. That is intelligence. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.000 From this to here, that, it's genius. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.000 Ptolemy, Eratosthenes, Einstein, things like that. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.000 Nobody's obliged to be a genius. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.000 It's better, but nobody. NOTE Paragraph 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:19.000 Take care, in this training, to be a good mutant. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:23.000 There is some danger, there is some trap. One trap: the vertical. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:26.000 Because at the vertical of us, if you look like that, 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:29.000 "Ah! my God, there is God. Ah! God!" 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:36.000 God is a trap. God is the answer when we don't know the answer. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:44.000 That means, when your brain is not enough big, when you don't understand, 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.000 you go, "Ah, it's God, it's God." That's ridiculous. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:51.000 That's why -- jump, like that? No, don't jump. 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.000 Come back. Because, after, there is another trap. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:57.000 If you look like that, you look to the past, 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:01.000 or you look inside if you are very flexible, inside yourself. 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.000 It's called schizophrenia, and you are dead also. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:09.000 That's why every morning, now, because you are a good mutant, 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.000 you will raise your angle of view. 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:17.000 Out, more of the horizontal. You are an intelligence. 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 Never forget -- like that, like that. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.000 It's very, very, very important. 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:32.000 What, what else we can say about that? Why do that? 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:43.000 It's because we -- if we look from far, we see our line of evolution. 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:48.000 This line of evolution is clearly positive. 00:11:48.000 --> 00:11:52.000 From far, this line looks very smooth, like that. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:59.000 But if you take a lens, like that, this line is ack, ack, ack, ack, ack. Like that. 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:04.000 It's made of light and shadow. 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:08.000 We can say light is civilization, shadow is barbaria. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.000 And it's very important to know where we are. 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:17.000 Because some cycle, there is a spot in the cycle, 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:23.000 and you have not the same duty in the different parts of the cycle. NOTE Paragraph 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:29.000 That means, we can imagine -- I don't say it was fantastic, 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:36.000 but in the '80s, there was not too much war, like that, it was -- 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:43.000 we can imagine that the civilization can become civilized. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.000 In this case, people like me are acceptable. 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.000 We can say, "It's luxurious time." 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.000 We have time to think, we have time to I don't know what, 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.000 speak about art and things like that. 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.000 It's OK. We are in the light. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:10.000 But sometimes, like today, we fall, we fall so fast, so fast to shadow, we fall so fast to barbaria. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:15.000 With many, many, many, many face of barbaria. 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:22.000 Because it's not, the barbaria we have today, it's perhaps not the barbaria we think. 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:24.000 There is different type of barbaria. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.000 That's why we must adapt. 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:37.000 That means, when barbaria is back, forget the beautiful chairs, forget the beautiful hotel, 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:40.000 forget design, even -- I'm sorry to say -- forget art. 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:44.000 Forget all that. There is priority; there is urgency. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.000 You must go back to politics, you must go back to radicalization, 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:51.000 I'm sorry if that's not very English. 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.000 You must go back to fight, to battle. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:57.000 That's why today I'm so ashamed to make this job. 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:02.000 That's why I am here, to try to do it the best possible. 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:06.000 But I know that even I do it the best possible 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:08.000 -- that's why I'm the best -- it's nothing. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.000 Because it's not the right time. 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:21.000 That's why I say that. I say that, because, I repeat, nothing exist if it's not in the good rhythym, 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:26.000 the rhythym of our beautiful dream, of this civilization. 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:32.000 And because we must all work to finish this story. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:36.000 Because the scenario of this civilization 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.000 -- about love, progress, and things like that -- it's OK, 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:46.000 but there is so many different, other scenarios of other civilizations. 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:55.000 This scenario, of this civilization, was about becoming powerful, intelligent, 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:59.000 like this idea we have invented, this concept of God. 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:03.000 We are God now. We are. It's almost done. 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.000 We have just to finish the story. 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.000 That is very, very important. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:11.000 And when you don't understand really what's happened, 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:17.000 you cannot go and fight and work and build and things like that. 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:21.000 You go to the future back, back, back, back, like that. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.000 And you can fall, and it's very dangerous. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.000 No, you must really understand that. NOTE Paragraph 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.000 Because we have almost finished, I'll repeat this story. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:41.000 And the beauty of this, in perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:48.000 and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.000 a new poetry, a new romanticism. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:58.000 With billions of people who have been born, worked, lived and died before us, 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.000 these people who have worked so much, 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:07.000 we have now bring beautiful things, beautiful gifts, we know so many things. 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:14.000 We can say to our children, OK, done, that was our story. That passed. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:20.000 Now you have a duty: invent a new story. Invent a new poetry. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:27.000 The only rule is, we have not to have any idea about the next story. 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:32.000 We give you white pages. Invent. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:40.000 We give you the best tools, the best tools, and now, do it. 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:47.000 That's why I continue to work, even if it's for toilet brush.