A field study, a report and a podcast on design

The Bam collective, now Praticable, is a design studio that imagines “perceptible and practicable” objects, meaning objects whose workings anyone can understand and that can be repaired, transformed or repurposed rather than simply consumed.

In 2020, we wanted to understand from the inside the vision of design held by the collective. We carried out a field study and a series of interviews with the people around it, with two questions in mind. How do we move from being consumers to being practitioners? And under what conditions can a design of practicable objects find its place in a society built on consumption and throwaway goods?

This action research combined theoretical thinking, fieldwork and analysis, and led to a report proposing ways to put Bam's project into practice. As the work took place in the middle of the pandemic, we also wanted to share its conclusions in a form people could listen to at home. This is how the idea of a podcast came about, which you can find below.

This work was carried out by Maude Durbecker and Camille Lizop as part of the Éthires master's degree, the applied philosophy master's of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.