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Today, our society is faced with unprecedented challenges (access to water, education, health, waste and pollution management, etc.) in a context marked by ecological urgency. However, if the situation seems desperate, it is not necessary to despair of everything.

In the above, and after having indicated that the questioning of innovation is in fact not a criticism of innovation but a criticism of its loss of meaning, we have presented the PSI approach, which places the question of the political meaning of innovation in the very process of innovation.

The latter supposes that we extend our thinking beyond the point where it takes us today, i.e. beyond the sense of innovation for the user. To mobilize the PSI approach is indeed:

 – to use a reflexive approach that involves our critical faculties and helps the designer to work within common sense, i.e. in a sense that is accepted by and acceptable to all because it meets the values of our society, values that should not be forgotten and are culturally and historically located;

 – to work against the dictatorship of “ever more” because our society does not always demand more innovation; it wants the best.

Some will no doubt see in the PSI approach a heroic conception of the designer. This is a conception that we willingly accept on the condition that we appreciate this heroism not in the designer’s capacity to transform the world but in their capacity to become philosophers in action and to reintroduce a certain form of wisdom.