Anthony Masure

Date

June 2025

Type

Publication

Contexte

Article co-écrit avec Alexia Mathieu, publié dans Sciences du Design, n^o 21, 2025/1, p. 12-22. Reprise d’un texte publié dans les revues ISSUE et AOC.

Résumé

This article pays tribute to Nicolas Nova (1977-2024), a professor at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), who died during a trek in the Sultanate of Oman. A precursor in studies that combined design, social sciences, and technology, this unclassifiable researcher explored the imaginaries, interstices, and paradoxes of digital objects, examining the tensions between industrial standardization and situated reappropriations. Co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory, he renewed technological narratives through the practice of “design fiction.” An inspiring teacher, he taught his students an ethnographic perspective, transforming the observation of everyday life into a lever for creation. The care given to the form of his works embodied his conviction to build bridges between academic research, design practices, and civil society. With some twenty books to his name, Nicolas Nova leaves behind a multifaceted body of work. His absence deprives technological criticism of an essential, lucid, curious, and poetic voice.

Notions

• Design,
• Design fiction,
• Écologie,
• Enquête,
• Ethnographie,
• Imaginaires,
• Numérique,
• Pédagogie,
• Technologie,

Personnes citées

• Auger James,
• Bationo-Tillo Anne,
• Baudry Jérôme,
• Bleecker Julian,
• Bloch Anaïs,
• Bolli Laurent,
• Calvo Sabrina,
• Cozzolino Francesca,
• Gaulon Benjamin,
• Girardin Fabien,
• Goguey Félicien,
• Haug Laurent,
• Kaplan Frédéric,
• Khalatbari Cyrus,
• Krier Sophie,
• Le Page Thibault,
• Léchot Hirt Lysianne,
• Lussault Michel,
• Maigret Nicolas,
• Masure Anthony,
• Mathieu Alexia,
• Mineur Etienne,
• Musk Elon,
• Nova Nicolas,
• Roszkowska Maria,
• Sciboz Daniel,
• Schneider Anne,
• Stanley Douglas Edric,

Objets mentionnés

• Disnovation,
• Lift,
• Near Future Laboratory,