CRISP #1 magazine ‘Don’t you design chairs anymore?’ CRISP #1 | Página 5

Two lines to tell our story ...

Introducing the changing role of the designer

“… don ’ t you design chairs anymore ?” does not come out of the blue . Ok , we may exaggerate a bit but what do designers do if it ’ s not designing chairs ? And what will they do in the future ? In this story line we elaborate on the changing role of designers in general and within the different CRISP projects .

Introducing Product- Service Systems

So we ’ re not designing chairs , but experiences , memories , behavior and ways of living in the shape of Product-Service Systems . What ’ s in the name ? What does this mean for designers , academia , industry and practice ?