Chinese-European Academic Lecture No. 209

Technical learning is most often perceived as the result of pedagogical, scientific and experiential processes that seek efficiency and rely on clarity and transparency to guarantee success. The master makes the right gestures for an attentive apprentice who observes them in order to reproduce them. This lecture seeks to show, on the contrary, that a large part of the acquisition of technical skills is less about science, effective pedagogy and clarity than it is about magic, aesthetics and ...