@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0161, 

TITLE={Technical culture and innovation culture: this tandem reconcile through design}, 
  
AUTHOR={John Didier, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={2}, 

NUMBER={Issue 4}, 
	
YEAR={2017}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/Technical-culture-and-innovation-culture-this-tandem-reconcile-through-design}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2017.0161}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={This paper questions the relationship between technical culture and innovation culture in order to return to the central role of the design activity in the context of educational training. Simondon’s [SIM 89] statement about the exclusion of technology in a cultural dimension stresses upon the fascination of technical objects in everyday life. The technical culture, misunderstood and excluded from culture itself, provokes a deficiency that is manifested by a lack of its teaching in our training systems. Innovation culture refers back to our industrial and post-industrial cultures that lead us to
an obstinate search for novelty through this creative destruction that pushes for obsolescence in order to ensure the advent of the new. The search for novelty thus takes two characteristic forms: radical (older) innovation and more recent, more widespread, ephemeral, which is easier to manipulate, more appealing and has a short term incremental innovation that characterizes a trend of late modernity. To overcome this double impasse: the absence of a technical culture from
training programs and a culture of innovation reduced to an incremental innovation, characterized by a frenzy of short term change, we propose the implementation of a didactic of design, that has the potential to reconcile the technical culture and the innovation culture. Thus, this article focuses on the effects of design activity in the production of technical objects in the context of training and in the educational context.}}