RONAN & ERWAN BOUROULLEC
good actor, who not only plays the same role,
rather with his passion offers solutions for
different contexts. Specialized knowledge is
the enemy of passion.
HW
Alberto Alessi said that if there were a pill for
experience, he would take it.
RB
Yes, but there is no such pill.
That’s my problem. I don’t like systems,
methodologies and repetition. I hate the world
of specialists. I want to explore new paths eve-
ry time – but that’s not easy when you’ve been
down umpteen paths.
HW
If we were to meet again in 20 years, how
would offices look?
EB
In 20 years video conferen-
cing will probably prevail. Today they feel as
strange as it did a few years ago to buy a train
ticket from a touch screen. But we’ll get used
to it, and that’s a good thing, because it spares
time and energy.
RB
I hope there will be a kind of
“reset” for our world in the future. That would
be a welcome result of this crisis: that it goes
so deep that we fundamentally examine what
we do and how we do it. In one sentence: I’m
hoping for the return of common sense.
HW
You probably get detailed briefings from your customers before you start with your work.
RB
No. There are certainly different ways to reach solutions as a designer. One
way is to collect a lot of information, to conduct interviews and to analyze. Our way is
different.
We function best in tasks where we don’t know a lot. We simply start out naively, which could
be good for the situation.
HW
And that works?
RB
We are not specialists and don’t want to be. For us a good design is like a
