Beyond the need to train future scientific managers in engineering techniques, Centrale Marseille is concerned with their openness to the world and their ability to develop a sense of responsibility and cooperation.
Through their “Train’ing” module, students have the opportunity to open up to Culture and Society “while raising questions around themes related to societal and environmental issues”.
The 2021 edition is a first; the engineering students discover a workshop halfway between art and science: design fiction, a prospective method for projecting themselves into a probable future and imagining solutions to future behaviour.
Conceived with the designer Lucie Cassisa, we chose the subject Living in the future in 2040 according to the UN’s SDGs. In an optimistic spirit, we have taken the side of utopia by encouraging useful and sustainable innovation, and the ecological transition.