•Higher education

How can the know-how be grasped in creative arts education, and in particular fashion? Is there a particular sensibility of the need to use recognised skills in tomorrow’s designs? How do teachers deal with the question?


•The companies

What do they do to keep, improve and pass on gestures and skills that are at the heart of their activity? What are the strategies to be developed when they have to think about handing things on? To whom should they be passed on? Is it necessary to look for financial, industrial, institutional partners? Should they be handed on abroad? In concrete terms, how does one experience the handing over a company?


•The designers

How do creativity and design influence the carrying on of know-how? Can know-how inspire design? How are the designers informed, is it in their culture, the fruit of an encounter, etc.? Where do the two domains meet? Design + know-how = increased appeal? What does a traditional technique bring to the consumer?


•The institutions and associations defending know-how

What is their role? Do they have a particular policy on handing on know-how? Should the government or the local collectivities be more enterprising? What is the interest for the concerned companies to regroup them selves under a type of association or belong to a professional institution?

Combining leading edge technology + traditional skills and expertise: there is no doubt this is an approach that will promote the continuity of the trades in the design products of tomorrow.