New futures of Stefano Marzano
by Slava on Oct.04, 2011, under 6 future congeries
Stefano Marzano is undoubtedly the ‘future’ man for me, and always was. In many senses it was him who, directly or indirectly, (hyper)linked me to the whole ‘future & design’ area. Of course I studied ‘future studies’ and ‘scenario thinking’ long before I heard his name, but it was his name, or rather a name of the book edited by him, Vision of the Future, that opened an entirely different meaning of the ‘future thinking’ for me. It was, in fact, not so much thinking, but ‘doing the future’, exploring, designing and making it, the discipline I learned and practiced for more than ten years at Philips Design, the company that Stefano was heading for twenty years.
He is leaving now, and the company will be lead by Sean Carney, but I guess it will be Stefano who will remain to be a symbol of the ‘futures’, and most importantly because he managed to ‘infect’ so many people with his passion, for people, for design, and for thinking and doing things differently.
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