ENSCI Graduates Catalog 2007-2008

Les Ateliers - Paris Design Institute École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle

Graduates

This catalogue celebrates the work of 42 young designers who graduated from Les Ateliers, the French national institute for advanced studies in design, Paris, between January 2007 and July 2008.

This collection of projects – which includes work carried out throughout their studies as well as degree projects – displays a broad diversity of talents and contemporary design practices which span product, textile, communication, digital, spatial and service design.

These multifarious projects are personal expressions of a shared vision of creation and design which is at the very heart of the Les Ateliers project.

In a world marked by a certain dehumanisation, heightened environmental and energy risks and the growing complexity of the systems in which man lives, design – as we see it – necessarily takes on a dimension of political and social awareness.

In a society where we are living longer and where mobility, new “web” practices, and the rise in job insecurity and exclusion are leaving a deep imprint on everyday lives, we see design defining new spaces of exploration and assuming new responsibilities.

In a global economy marked by increased competition between businesses and greater competition between countries to attract capital and brainpower, design and creativity are determining factors of innovation and competitiveness, for the economy but also within the process of creating quality and well-being in everyday lives.

In this context, Les Ateliers’ mission is to educate designers who will be players for change and innovation at economic, societal and community levels. In keeping with the tradition of our establishment, it has been our ambition to prepare these 2007 and 2008 graduates – industrial and textile designers – to be the architects of a more liveable, more sustainable world.

I hope that this Les Ateliers graduates catalogue will serve to convince you.

Alain CADIX Director, Les Ateliers-Paris Design Institute

© ENSCI-Les Ateliers, 2008

Founded in 1982, Les Ateliers-Paris Design Institute (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle) is the only French national Institute exclusively devoted to industrial design. A public commercial and industrial establishment supervised by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Industry, it broadened its activities to include two other degree programmes in 1985 and 1993: first the Atelier National d’Art Textile (ANAT), then a specialist Master’s degree in “Design and contemporary technology”, the denomination of which has recently been modified. Today the School covers not only the fields of industrial and product design but also multiple contemporary design applications: digital, spatial, communication, service design…

For over 25 years Les Ateliers has trained designers with highly varied profiles who have gone on to work in design studios, businesses or as freelancers, many of them contributing to France’s renown abroad.

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In the heart of Paris, close to Bastille, Les Ateliers occupies a site full of history: the former workshops of the decorator Jansen, who employed up to 500 art craftsmen from 1922 to 1979. The building was acquired to house Les Ateliers by the Ministry of Culture, which then carried out the restoration. The school has kept the spirit of these workshops while opening up to contemporary technologies.

The teaching is based as much on wood, metal, plastic and textile workshop practice as on digital, image and sound techniques.

In certain circumstances the workshops are open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to enable students to carry out their projects in optimum conditions.

Learning, experimenting, creating: Les Ateliers has opted for ambitious, multidisciplinary, theoretical and practical courses in correlation with project studios run by professional designers.

The teaching is based on the principle of individualised programmes for each student. In addition to regular teachers, the school calls on outside personalities for lectures or workshops. All students undertake an obligatory professional internship for one semester, in France or abroad, and many of them also go abroad on a university exchange programme.

Les Ateliers is now at the heart of a teaching and research cluster, Paris Design Lab®, that associates it with colleges or universities in the Île de France region teaching the arts, literature, engineering, architecture, economics and management, and social and human sciences. Les Ateliers also forms partnerships with businesses, research laboratories and institutions, where the student learns to respond to real life professional issues defined by the partner.

The establishment has two Masters level degrees, awarded by ministerial decree: - an industrial designer degree, certified Level 1 on the national register of professional certifications.

- a textile designer degree.

Les Ateliers also proposes: - a specialist Masters degree, “Design and contemporary technology”, accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles.

A new specialist Masters degree will be created in 2009.

Every year Les Ateliers trains 250 students of all nationalities. To date it has graduated 548 industrial designers, trained over 200 textile designers, with 43 graduating since the creation of a degree in textile design in 2002, and awarded 142 specialist Masters degrees.

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Pierre-Louis Abel

Four months in South Korea Internship at Motodesign, Seoul, South Korea.

MP3 readers, mobile phones, flat screens, laptop computers, water bottles, industrial machines, DVD players.

Welcome to South Korea!

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Intrainet Rethinking travel comfort through a new global experience.

Intrainet is a new service that favours exchange between travellers and between the traveller and the outside environment.

The animated poster A new audiovisual system. Author of a message-cum-graphic player faced with an evolving image, this simultaneous interactive system develops communicating networks on a local scale.

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Organising group innovation at the RATP (Paris transport network) Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin*

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

Faced with the current context of global competition through innovation, “innovating or knowing how to manage capacities for innovation” seems a necessary key to the survival of most organisations. Businesses and business players have to reorganise themselves. Developing collaborative and transversal practices among designers becomes a crucial issue for success. This project proposes new forms of collective innovation that can be developed among design managers (marketing, R&D, prospective, Design). Advanced design

is a veritable resource in the process of innovation and has an essential “creative synthesis” role to play.

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Networking under third governance Thesis director: Eloi Baudoux*

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Networking, be it informal or institutional, seems essential for businesses to adapt to the context of intensive innovation. Analysis of a concrete case, the GEVI network, which brings together a group of designers, marketers, ergonomists and engineers, has revealed the stakes behind a collective innovation policy and the position of design in the face of this collective innovation process. * Engineer, R&D, Renault, France

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Cyril Afsa Chimera

Living fossils

Award-winning project at the Salon du Jouet, the Paris Toy Fair in 2003. Teamwork with A.-L. Pulcini and S. RieuPiquet. A child’s bed toy.

An abstract object, a narrative beginning, it prompts the sleepy child to dream.

A mural texture representing butterflies in flight in bas relief.

Digital milling creates new bridges between the different disciplines and re-injects the material with photographic elements, e.g. kinetic blur.

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Ghost lamp The shade of this lamp is a mist produced by a water ionizer. Heavier than air, it falls slowly while intercepting the light emitted by the base.

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Polychrome objects Project director: Laurent Massaloux*

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

The great hygienist crusade of the 20th century has driven modern style to evacuate polychromy from the creation of objects– notably in furnishings–no doubt because the illusionist power of colour rendered it suspect. This attitude has left its trace on the contemporary industrial object.

Yet the deceptive nature of colour needs to be discussed: in refusing it, and in placing perception of volume as the sole truth, designers are repressing part of their humanity. Reintroducing polychromy into industrial objects means agreeing to work on

perception, evocation, and the irrational, and perhaps letting go of the total mastery dear to the product, since colour has always held out against grand designs for rationalisation.

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Machines of the mind

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Thesis director: Marie-Haude Caraës * Programming is about casting a gaze on the world. I don’t believe in the reputed coldness of software: on the contrary, behind every software lies a group of people trying to understand our reality, offering a singular response. I like to discover what others manage to see in programmes and how they propose to act, even though I sometimes disagree with them. * Political scientist, Head of Research, Cité du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Furniture for an art centre Group project for La Ferme du Buisson.

Cinema theatres have always been fitted out in a specific way, but how to envisage a space devoted to video art ?

This furniture creates a space for immersion.

It proposes different positions to give the spectator new angles on art and video.

Lunatic Jura eyewear Manufacturers, Competition 2006 , in collaboration with Benjamin Tovo.

“Lunatic” dark glasses become a piece of jewellery when worn around the neck. Their titanium frame is designed in the shape of a necklace, the bridge opens onto a metaphor of two teardrops, two pearls set between two loops.

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Dotmap Project director: Stéphane Villard *

* Designer R&D EDF (French electricity)

Today we face the problem of managing the sheer quantity of data and information that users accumulate in their computers on the multiple platforms, applications, and interfaces that are on offer. In my opinion, all this organised data and information forms a valid research path, a territory of knowledge, the cartography of a thought, but the real question lies in knowing how it is represented and how to grasp an overall vision of it.

This project involves going back to the digital media’s classification systems and organisational tools and mediums in order to re-appropriate them and give true body to each user’s specific territory of knowledge.

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Walls, lines, margins Thesis director: Marie-Haude Caraës *

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What is a frontier? What is its purpose? What are the effects it has on society? Conversely, how do societies influence the border? Does a frontier stem from or create difference?

This thesis tries to describe different aspects of frontiers in different contexts. The Great Wall of China, barbed wire, CCTV cameras…

In an initial study phase, the frontier is a physical obstacle. Cartographic projections, satellite imagery, reproductions, mental representations, individual or collective aspirations… The frontier is a limit projected on the places and mediums of thought.

Climate shifts, human migrations, network society… The frontier is a mobile, moving, disseminated, delocalised boundary… * Political scientist, Head of Research, Cité du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Pierre Alex os[e] Ordinateur Sans Ecran [Screenless Computer] Partnership with AVH, an association for the blind and the partially sighted, in collaboration with David Gauquelin.

A laptop for the visually handicapped. The interface is entirely based on sound. Fitted with a skin in supple SBR foam, it can be stored directly in a backpack, with no need for a protective case.

It contains a scanner coupled with characterrecognition software that enables the blind to understand a written text.

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La Décalogie Vincent V

Jukebox Project in partnership with Kenwood. This jukebox is composed of nine screens that form a playlist and a small console used to pilot the interface. Each drink that is ordered is served with an acrylic coaster.

This coaster enables you to select the music you would like to hear. This project is more about designing a situation than designing a product.

Directed with Soufiane Adel.

A fictional feature film composed of ten chapters, each of which is one sequence shot. La Décalogie Vincent V is an opportunity to tackle audiovisual production through the angle of product design. To rethink format, distribution, and how to match form to function. The different chapters are autonomous and have been selected for a number of French film festivals, notably Belfort, Cane, and Mantes la Jolie. Chapter 5, “Contestation” was awarded first prize at the Festival de Seine-Saint-Denis.

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Eloquence Project director: Jean-Louis FrĂŠchin *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

This brand proposes two digital products based around rapping and slamming. The idea is to spread oral musical expression through two different strategies: a website and a video game.

The website You log on to it to listen to tracks written and sung by amateurs. The texts are displayed while they are sung, so as to immerse the listener/reader in the words. A system of ranking based on notoriety allows net surfers to applaud their favourite songs.

The video game for the Nintendo Wii That entails playing with words. You progress by moving up the levels. Some levels will deal with the sonority of the language, others with the lexical field or rhythms. Voice recognition enables validation of the words uttered.

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[The Y2K Bug and Other Tales from the New World] Thesis director: Jacques-François Marchandise * I wanted to address the onslaught of digital technology from every angle and in particular the aspect of dependency.

Through a series of short fictional texts I have tried to analyse different issues linked to technology: the computer industry economy, illegal downloads, freeware, the infocentric war, law and technology, electronic culture, the vaguely useful digital gadget, World of Warcraft, Rhinocéros design, nomadic digital objects.

In the light of the philosophies of Jacques Ellul and Gilbert Simondon, this thesis aims to present the contradictions and mechanisms underlying technological innovation. * Philosopher and NTIC expert (FING), teacher, ENSCI

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Géraldine de Beco

Booléenacés [Booleanacaea] Mural texture composed from a single flower motif placed in the world of 3D software to be subjected to the special physical laws of this virtual space. Through the phenomenon of “Boolean union”, volumes without substance bump and flow into each other to generate an infinity of floral varieties and motifs. They spread like lichen, upsetting the flatness of the walls through the discreet shadow of its invasions.

An armchair Workshop run by Patrick Jouin.

An indoor or outdoor plastic armchair designed for comfort.

It is manufactured by moulding and its forms are the result of this process. It has also been designed for stacking, which placed an extra constraint on its design.

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Curving wood The screen attaches to a desk through its own weight. It stands out with no extra clamp system. It is structured by a network of beechwood slats curved via a glulam process, which forms a protected space. Its translucent surface gently separates the space and delimits a cut-off area that is conducive to concentration.

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Microclimates Project director: Laurent Massaloux*

*Designer, directeur d’atelier de projet à l’ENSCI

How to consider relaxation as a public service ?

Parks are relaxing locations in which it is possible to imagine passive systems that will provide refreshing coolness when the heat is stifling. Beyond the sheer pleasure of the presence of water, its evaporation creates a cooling process and can give rise to refreshing spaces, bioclimatic systems that bring sunlight and wind into the equation of wellbeing.

An initial project in the form of a “bower ” invites people to enter an airy, liquid environment. The water functions like a fountain, fine droplets trickle down from the top and cling to walls pierced with holes.

A second project uses terracotta to offer a seat linked to a hydraulic network whose constant humidity creates a refreshing cradle.

A lightweight enamelled relief enables people to take refuge here without getting wet.

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Economic geometries Design, mass consumerism, and modernity Thesis director: Alexandra Midal *

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An historical trip back to the birth of design, in the early days of mass-production and the consumer society, provides a clearer angle on the stakes at play today. What links exist between design and economics ? To what extent are projects–for which design is key– defined in relation to the economic system?

How is this contrasting heredity, which enhances commercial appeal by relying on the beneficial power of production, expressed through formal choices? * Design critic, curator

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Photorama is a service designed to “take Photomaton booths out onto the street”.

It entails taking a 360° panoramic photograph, choosing the framing of the image, and sending it straight by email. All photoramas can be saved on the Photomaton website.

GROOM Partnership with the SNCF (French Railways), in tandem with Anaïs Triolaire.

On the theme of railway comfort, we analysed the mobility difficulties linked to carrying luggage. Groom is a luggage trolley whose dimensions are adapted to Paris metro doors.

It stands upright on escalators, is pulled and not pushed, is easy to handle thanks to three multidirectional wheels, is silent, and enables luggage to be secured directly on the trolley.

SCOTLAND University internship at the Glasgow School of Art, photography section Name of the series: “ Scottish Landscape ”.

Discovering a country and a landscape through images.

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Focus on image practices Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

How to adapt to new “image practices”?

I first created a new image format: (.typ).

Thanks to a graphic system of strata, each piece of information becomes visible to all and is translated by a word which can be clicked on or typed or moved around inside the image, making each image its own interface. I used the potential of this new “image/interface” to construct my project.

“Focus” is “a (global) digital image management system”.

- A digital camera: “Bie” (Binary Image).

Equipped with wireless technology, captures images in (.typ) format and automatically sends them to a personal storage space (ImageTypeStock).

- (ImageTypeStock) centralises all our images and expands according to the number of photos.

- The last stage of the project is an interface: (ImageType).

(ImageType) is an online application, a window onto all our images. Each user can navigate via a temporal organisation of the images. Time is therefore the first way of

exploring one’s production. The second way of navigating among the images is to use key words found in the different strata of each Image.typ. Likewise, when searching for an image, each “information” becomes a potential “search criterion”.

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Faire le point [Focusing] Thesis director: Sophie Coiffier *

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An overview of the objects and practices of the silver print photographic age highlights a common desire, experienced by most people, to own and take photographs.

The digital revolution has modified the nature of the image itself and the protocol linked to it. Today we live a computerised way of life, and a new relationship is engaged between man and digital technologies.

I conclude that the same should apply to the relationship between man and his (digital) memory.

Faire le point [Focusing] is an annexe of my final thesis. This work presents the way in which my photographic approach has progressed through a selection of images taken during my years of study. * Artist, writer, teacher, ENSCI

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Plug on Plot Secondary furniture that uses existing urban installation as loadbearing structures.

Bunna Bunna is a coffee-maker designed for two types of use. The first applies to daily life, using simple, rapid gestures. Thanks to its mobile heat base, it can also be brought to the table to provide a full demonstration of the preparation process for more special occasions.

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For Elisabeth Leriche’s Tendances space at the Maison & Objet show in Paris, we took the theme of feasts and tackled the problem of frustration linked to food. First we exhibited a menu around the colour red. The table was laid beneath a glass hood and the guests could only sample one morsel of food, proposed beneath the hood.

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Eating at work Project director: Philippe Comte *

* Designer

The main aspect at stake in this project is to re-establish a certain dietary and behavioural balance by enhancing distribution networks located close to the workplace.

The project unfolds in three phases: - Creation of a website presenting the offer from local stores; - Creating portions of fresh fruit and vegetables adapted to consumption in the workplace. These portions are distributed among local storekeepers and tradespeople, thus creating a neighbourhood network;

- Creating a range of objects adapted to eating meals in the workplace. Providing the necessary items and a bag that turns into a tablecloth that marks out a pleasant eating space in the heart of the workplace.

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Objet(s) de Rituel(s) [Object(s) of ritual(s)] Thesis director: Ramuntcho Matta * What practices enable strong links to be forged between objects and ourselves, to the extent that the former become modified, qualified, marked ? Rituals.

They offer a spectrum of possibilities, from religious practices to routine tasks: this vast gap often engenders inappropriate use of the term. In this thesis I therefore propose a personal interpretation of the ritual practice through several levels of appreciation and the study of a few selected objects. * Sound designer and artist

Swann Bourotte

Jellyfish chandelier and paranoid reading lamp

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Realized with VIA 2006, manufactured by CINNA 2008. Project designed by transforming the function of an industrial shaft. With each articulation, the shaft adopts a tapered form.

The light is viewed as energy flowing through the arms, like a force that stretches the material under the pressure it exerts.

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The Cobra chair

Calice

Originally disarticulated and coiled up, the object unfurls in space, articulating vertebra after vertebra into a taut upright chair.

Pot for flower bulb, Peretti editions, London (UK).

A space where magic happens, where the bulb expresses the flower it contains, like the materialisation of the aura that shrouds that moment. Its morphology is the result of reproducing certain growth mechanisms through computer simulation. Its name, “Calice�, meaning both calyx and chalice in French, refers to both botany and religion.

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Reddot design award, Singapore, 2008

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Useful surface: the derma of the object Project director: François Azambourg *

The outside surface of the object is traditionally up to the designer to design.

Could it not be possible to think of the surface as an integral part at the outset of the project, a veritable organ, like the epidermis for the organism?

Structural Surface Volume designed naturally by gravity and then fixed by enamelling. The metallic chain core conducts the electricity to the light sources, while the enamel acts as an insulator.

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

Vibratile Surface – White fruit The object is an acoustic body, designed like a traditional instrument but digitally milled.

The acoustic membrane is the surface of the milled object: the front (2mm thick) is made to vibrate by an acoustic transducer. Display via transparency of the wood. Tactile navigation on the upper section.

Conductive Surface Transforming the use of Dibond®, the composite aluminium/polypropylene panel.

This chandelier is designed like an out-of-scale printed circuit, the entire surface conducts the electricity to the LEDs. The aluminium also acts as a light reflector. The object is composed of three independently mobile concentric hoops around a common axis, enabling variations in the overall geometry, therefore the overall atmosphere of the lighting.

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Genetically modified objects Thesis director: Marc Partouche * Running alongside the production of artefacts is a different history of design that draws on the matter that makes up man: the biological.

To understand the underlying stakes and their direction, we propose an examination of the tool man has used to observe, understand and transform the world: science and its influence on our conception. * Research expert, CitĂŠ du Design, St-Etienne

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Lighter than air Partnership with Elumin8. Display case where contents are hidden or revealed by means of a simple gesture. Simply flick a handle on the top of the object and the feathery light can be turned on or off. The light emitted is oriented inwards in order to reinforce the two moments: concealment and revelation.

The intensity of the light varies according to a light scenario.

Materials: Plexiglas, electroluminescent film.

Recto-verso Partnership with Tefal.

This steam-cooking accessory can be placed directly on the table to serve the food. It is composed of several cooking baskets that can simultaneously cook different types of food that require variable cooking times. This is done by playing on the height of the baskets in relation to the source of the steam.

Hut to build I propose a hut to build around a tree, at once private and open to the exterior. A living object that evolves with its environment, a tree beneath the tree.

Materials: wood, electric shaft, steel cable.

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Interior/exterior, a relationship to be imagined Project director: Laurent Massaloux *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

Storing/“an object in motion” Work on the notion of the extendible object and on matching container and content.

I propose inter-sliding office elements.

Travelling/“at home away” A suitcase turns into a piece of storage furniture on arrival at one’s destination.

The base draws its inspiration from an easel: once open, the suitcase can be raised and tilted, facilitating access to the contents.

The items are stored in piles, making all the contents of the suitcase instantly visible.

Opening/“porous border” Reflection on the notion of a porous object based on an opening. A double line of holes creates an interaction between interior and exterior. The object functions as an indicator of presence: its state indicates what is happening inside by fragments. The size of the holes also provides information on the degree to which the object is open.

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The paradoxes of the natural Thesis director: Marie Treps * Why are we so interested in everything natural?

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The reason all natural things are currently so appealing is because it federates common interests: in terms of sales for distributors, and in the quest for authenticity and tradition for consumers. Due to the conditions of city life, stressful working rhythms, and so forth, the need for dreams and escapism is stronger than ever. By analysing the media, we will try to gauge the ambiguity of our relationship with nature in the realms of house and garden, food, and cosmetics. * Linguist and writer

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Mirror, mirror…

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I have chosen to work on the mirror in order to open up reflexion which is behind reflection.

I have treated the question through image, playing with mimetisme and “mirroring” construction.

Reinterpreting the architectural codes of traditional apartments to fit in a contemporary context and in an impalpable and spectacular manner.

Decorate the ceiling with the image of a ceiling rose. Working on the value of representation of codes in design.

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Watch Partnership with Tag Heuer, eliumstudio, in tandem with Sylvain Beneteau. The brand wanted to position itself in the women’s and youth market. We kept the brand’s values while adapting them to a young population.

Our mythical figure is embodied by Néo, hero of the electronic era. Digital technology perpetuates the history of precision, it is our role to restore its letters of nobility.

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Plaisir Mineur [Minor Pleasure] Project director: Jean-Louis FrĂŠchin *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

What can we specifically offer a teenage audience in the field of sex education ?

How to develop new avenues of communication ? I think it is important to create a pedagogical tool specially for this young audience. I chose to tackle the subject of teenage sexuality by proposing a system of notebook destined for an exhibition.

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Regalia, a mediator of power Thesis director: Marie-Haude CaraĂŤs * I am fascinated by the question of decoration.

Apart from basic functionality, what other relationship do we have with an object?

How does a designer tackle this question?

From the question of decoration to appearance, I seek to question the aesthetic value of our surroundings. Appearance leads me to regalia. I discover that it governs a system of domination that has lasted four centuries. Regalia as the mediator of power. * Political scientist, Head of Research, CitĂŠ du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Partnership with Kenwood. House Network is a domestic musical network linked to a central unit that concentrates the entire family’s musical database.

Its particularity lies in its form and its broadcasting mode, which is adapted to each room in the house.

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Eole, Empirical weather station Project in partnership with Elumin8.

A “meteorological” electroluminescent mobile that provides empirical information.

At the bottom, the bowl fills with light when there is a risk of rainfall.

At the top, the windmill changes the object graphically when in motion. Its rotation speed varies according to wind speed, while its graphic design lights up concentrically according to outside temperature.

Rezo “Artificial garden” workshop exhibition at the French Cultural Centre in Milan.

This evolving pot highlights a root network and leaves the user free to indicate the direction in which the plant will grow.

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Through the looking glass Real life and second life Project director: Laurent Massaloux *

The project proposes to step gradually through the digital looking glass by offering tools that aid discovery and exploration of the new 3D environments.

The user and the digital interface The 3D mouse offers a new type of manipulation that matches 3D environments.

The tactile keyboard allows the user to configure all their keyboard shortcuts according to the software and applications used…

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

The user and the avatar The lamp stands as a witness to the other world. It thus possesses its avatar in the virtual world (e.g. Second Life).

The two entities are connected and give the user the temporality of the other world, creating a link between the real world and the virtual world.

The avatar and its parallel world Second Life is the only metaverse that integrates a 3D construction tool in its interface, thus offering total freedom of creation.

The furniture proposed exploits the potential of the virtual world. A range of rugs, featuring the shadows cast by objects, enable the avatar to make the furniture items it needs appear, as and when need be, by distorting the rugs.

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Des-ordres [Dis-orders] Thesis director: FrĂŠdĂŠric Dumond * This thesis questions the rules employed by designers on the borderline between different creative realms. Through a non-linear reading and a choice of specific examples, it tries to highlight the porosity between various fields and some of the possible paths that lead to these creations. * Artist, writer

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This is an elementary matrix from which light evolves in three dimensions when the object is touched.

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Kino Partnership with Tag Heuer and eliumstudio, 2004. The history of watchmaking grew parallel to the history of film. This watch uses the codes of moving image.

It is both analogical and digital and its packaging is evocative.

“Artificial garden”, exhibition at the French Cultural Centre in Milan, Salon du Meuble furniture show, 2006. Instead of hiding the jungle of cables that inhabit our interiors, this project proposes revealing them. The network of cables – wall socket, extension cord, adaptor plugs – is re-coded to form ivy creepers. Each plug becomes a fruit that blooms and brings the energy we need to our cables.

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PEPS Project director: Sébastien Boissard *

* Architect, designer

How to create shade on a beach without altering the site or creating a constraint?

Peps are “petits espaces de protection solaire” (little spaces for protection from the sun). Two tiny spaces adapted to two different publics: children and their world of play; adults and their personal comfort.

Junior Peps The object must have a limited impact on the site, it must be lightweight and transportable.

Junior Peps proposes a new composition of beach space by marking out a shaded zone, a “shell cabin” for children aged 3 to 6.

The ground space is completely free, unlike tent shelters, leaving the child to play freely

with the sand. This object can be wedged in place with sand and can also be easily handled by the child. It is composed of a spring structure tautened by a fabric.

Comfort Peps The second object is the association of shade and comfort. Cumbersome materials tend to be replaced by a small mobile parasol or tenttype structures. Moreover, people now aspire to appropriating their own space for a time, recreating their own comfort bubble, which involves taking numerous personal effects with them. The transportable aspect of the object is therefore essential. I propose a beach bag containing the appropriate accessories

as well as a personal shade system: a mat and towel, a sail, and an arch structure that fixes directly onto the bag.

This provides sufficient shade surface, especially when the sun is at its zenith.

Thanks to its soft forms and appropriate material, Comfort Peps does not disturb the landscape.

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Au Soleil, nouveaux mythes et héliotropisme moderne [In the Sun, New Myths and Modern Heliotropism] Thesis director: Marie Treps * “The sun’s power over life on earth quickly placed this star at the heart of mythological tales …to show the different representations on which our relationship to the solar star is based, I have chosen to use the term ‘myth’, in reference to past mythologies… Where did the contemporary vision of the sun come from? What elements fired this representation? For a designer, which heliotropic characteristics could produce innovation? Here I give a personal, non-exhaustive vision, from which six contemporary myths emerge, initially linked to social and artistic practices and then to technological and cultural customs…” * Linguist, writer

Charlotte Delomier

CALOR Internship with the Integrated Design team at Calor / Groupe SEB, under the direction of Fabrice Renault.

Followed by experience as a junior designer, 2006 - 2008.

From personal care (weight scales, hair removal, hairdressing) to domestic comfort (heating, ventilation), laundry care (irons, steam generators) product design and development follow-up (industrial development, branding and graphic designs, colours) to the image of the “Optiliss” hair straightener, designed and developed during the internship.

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Dérobée [Hidden]

VIA 2006 project aid, Partnership with ORFIMAR, VIA In collaboration with Mostapha El Oulhani.

Protoyping: Protée and Ufacto

Adjustable dress inspired from an apron.

This electric fan takes its inspiration from the paper fan. Its oscillating motion, made possible by the special capacities of the Mégaflux® engine, offers gentle, pleasant ventilation. Servo-control by electronic card enables regulation of the oscillation speed and amplitude of the engine, which is located at the heart of the blade. This project was prototyped on the occasion of the VIA 2006 project aid.

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Coins sombres Project director: Romain Cuvellier *

* Designer, project assistant, ENSCI

Situational prevention and video-surveillance are the consequences of the feeling of being unsafe in cities and political exploitation of this feeling. At night, this sentiment can be reinforced by the presence of dark corners, places of negative projections- fear of someone or something looming up, fear of being attacked. This project proposes two alternatives to current safety measures that actually exacerbate the projected risk: - street lighting: intervention on the quantity and quality of the light and on the perception of space that it infers;

- make the dark corner into a space that projects positive images which distract the pedestrian from their negative projections ; in addition, design a vandal-resistant maintenance-friendly image projector for the public space.

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Droit de regard [Right to Monitor] Thesis director: Marie-Haude Caraës * “Droit de regard”: the right to monitor reserved by one party in a contract, symptomatic of the distribution of power.

The party subjected to the right to monitor is obliged to accept such distribution if they want the contract to come into effect.

The contractual right to monitor is merely a punctiliousness application of the rights to monitor that various powers have granted themselves in order to control individuals and populations.

How does monitoring become and make power? From synopticism (power on show) to panopticism (power in surveillance) via periopticism (the symmetrical distribution of the gaze between two individuals of the same level: self-monitoring), from the topics of transparency to the use of monitoring technologies and the role of prevention, this thesis analyses the structures and modalities of the right to monitor. * Political scientist, Head of Research, Cité du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Experiments with materials

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Four metal tubes divided into strips for the feet, the seat, the back and the structure of a chair.

A new look at the flower bouquet. Thanks to its colour, this vase highlights the leaves.

This “hollow object” is the essential item needed by flowers, along with water and a support for the stems.

Make a volume with the least number of cuts possible: a tabletop composed of six press-moulded veneer leaves.

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Partnership with Tag Heuer and eliumstudio.

In tandem with Denis Pellerin. Three ways to read time over 24 hours. In the centre, a green hand effects one rotation a second and becomes a trace. On the second level are two discs: the black disc is the image of time passed and gradually covers the white disc as the day goes by. Thirdly, the exact time is given by a fixed needle at twelve o’clock and two discs−one for the hour, one for the minute - that rotate around it.

The model was displayed at the Musée de l’Horlogerie in Switzerland, then in Europe.

Partnership with Kenwood Audio.

A mobile object, at once memory and player, sold exclusively at the end of concerts, which gives it its value as a souvenir and “collector’s “ item.

A domestic object, a vocal interface for finding music: 3 ways to search for music associated with 3 tactile deformations created by the user. The object is made of technical ceramic. It is translucent and enables the title and duration of the track as well as the name of the artist to be displayed without a screen.

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The mechanics of the fold Project director: Perrine Vigneron *

* Designer

This includes the movement induced or produced by the fold and the way a system, a material and a process function. The idea is to look at packaging that uses the fold only to move from flatness to volume and to give the object a definitive state. The practical aspect of the project involved making the fold participate in the object’s use by working on compression systems.

A pre-scrumpled bottle of water Compressed by strata, it is more easily recyclable. The relief is obtained by decompressing a paper bottle, retains the indispensable folds, and announces its deformation.

A milk carton in a supple material An object that accompanies the “outpouring” of its contents by progressively deforming in order to provide a glimpse of what is inside.

Thus weakened, it is ready to be compacted.

A tin can Using folds, I propose an object that is resistant yet compressible by hand. The relief is the result of research on paper that is twisted then unfolded.

A box of eggs Or how to recycle the container and give it a second life ? Starting with a surface, I constructed an envelope that would become a volume through its folds and create compartments through its counterfolds.

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Pli [Fold] - From the limit to the structure Thesis director: Sophie Coiffier * Can the simple act of folding generate complexity while giving an illusion of simplicity ? From an industrial standpoint, from materials to industrialisation: detect the limits of the fold and the transformations beyond. Does it stay a “fold” ? From a more personal standpoint: experience volume with fabric, the experience of making. This thesis is an immersion in the project prior to the finished object, in order to understand all its components. * Artist, writer, teacher

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Desk A cross between a luggage item and a workspace, this desk project answers a growing need for mobility. It provides protection for a laptop computer on the move and ensures a certain comfort of use once you have arrived at your destination. It is a rigidified leather case that unfolds, thereby delimiting a workspace on all mediums.

Lamp This lamp is the result of ENSCI workshop experiments on the theme of links.

The position of this light is adaptable, following the principle of an architect’s desk lamp.

Its form is secured by switching on the cable that runs across it.

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The Olympiades marathons These three temporary interventions take place in the Olympiades neighbourhood in the 13th arrondissement in Paris. Three sports tracks modelled on the existing infrastructure offer a new experience of the site.

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O+ Project director: Philippe Comte *

* Designer

A water recycling system on the scale of a neighbourhood of dwellings with collectivised infrastructures. This system is made up of a water storage and recycling network plus a service designed to optimise each home’s consumption of drinking and treated water.

AÂ consumption management tool is also made available to users.

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Design and Architecture, a Possible Synthesis Thesis director: Alexandra Midal * This final year thesis offers an historical reinterpretation of the relationship between design and architecture, mirroring successive reinterpretations of the myth of the total work of art. This genealogy stretches from the period of the first German romantics to the failure of the modern architecture project, where the two disciplines asserted their autonomy, contradicting the meeting and equality of the arts that had previously been prerequisite to the expression of a totality.

This thesis aims to bring perspective to the causes of the evolution of this myth and its consequences on the links between design and architecture. * Design critic, curator

David Gauquelin

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Octet Semi-digital furniture element. This localised communication service for the Gare du Nord train station in Paris functions thanks to Wi-Fi technology. It allows messages to be sent to different places in the station. To do so, users must be equipped with a Wi-Fi compatible system. A simple on-line registration enables them to open an account and download the adapted software.

The different reception areas, indicated by marks on the ground, are linked to digital cards, thus creating a physical representation of the Presences service.

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Presences A virtual post-it service.

This localised communication service for the Gare du Nord train station in Paris functions thanks to Wi-Fi technology. It allows messages to be sent to different places in the station. To do so, users must be equipped with a Wi-Fi compatible system. A simple on-line registration enables them to open an account and download the adapted software.

The different reception areas, indicated by marks on the ground, are linked to digital cards, thus creating a physical representation of the Presences service.

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Mis, Machine in silico Project director: Jean-Louis FrĂŠchin *

* Designer, project director ENSCI

Mis is a mobile, multiplatform operating system based on the Linux core. It launches directly from a USB stick, enabling the user to access all their personal tools and their own digital world via any computer, used as a standard material system for capture and restitution.

It is a virtual computer completely dissociated from hardware, endowed with a dedicated, fluid, and intuitive user interface built around the “metaphor of the project�. This concept introduces new computer practices and

suggests new paradigms: - favour mobility of people, not machines; - bring continuity to a multi-platform, multi-machine context; - optimise the use and share of existing hardware resources; - facilitate group work; - offer a mobile solution adapted to contexts where network infrastructure is under-developed or inexistent.

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Behind things Thesis director: Jean-Louis FrĂŠchin *

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Products are not an end in themselves, indeed, they should first be pretexts for imagining a better life and how to improve life together. Marked as it is by a new industrial revolution−the digital revolution−our contemporary world offers a wonderful opportunity to reassert the need for this posture. For today we are confronted with a set of complex human problematics that stem from or are amplified by digital technology, such as access to knowledge, finding new bearings in the face of hyper-complexity, and the representation of intangible things, all of which are essential and no doubt urgent stakes that design should tackle. We therefore need to think about how to go beyond a form of sometimes inappropriate or excessive fascination of the product per se, to find the meaning of useful and responsible design. * Designer, project director, ENSCI

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Constance Guisset Manège amoureux [Loving roundabout] Designed with Benjamin Graindorge.

Mechanical toy display, commissioned for the window of the Musée des Arts Décoratif, Paris, 2004.

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Vertigo

Rocking chair with footrest. A comfortable seat inside a laminated (glulam) wood structure.

It seems to be hanging in the hoops of a crinoline dress; the footrest allows the occupier to adapt the rock of the chair to their activity. The seat is upholstered in padded textile, forming an elliptical graphic design.

Enveloping lamp-hut.

Its extreme lightweight nature (under 500g for a surface spread of 2m) makes it move rhythmically with the slightest puff of wind: it revolves gently, etching out an almost transparent graphic space, as though hanging between floor and ceiling. When lit, it projects a shadow motif on the surrounding walls. Its height is adaptable, thanks to a pulley system.

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Chimères Project director: Olivier Sidet *

Chimères stems from a reflexion on visual illusion and surprise. It involves creating objects in motion, aiming to stimulate longlasting surprise or fleeting fascination.

Fiat Lux A lamp where the switch is lit up and floats in levitation. The user becomes an illusionist, lighting the lamp when approaching a spherical light switch. The light goes on.

The sphere floats in the air until the user moves it away to switch the lamp off.

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Duplex A cage surmounted by an aquarium is intended to favour the visual encounter between a fish and a bird. The aquarium is thermoformed so as to create a space within which the bird can move about and fly at the fish’s level. The spectator never tires of chancing upon this occasional encounter that propounds a poetic imagination around the impossible meeting between the worlds of sea and air.

Tri3 A rubbish sorting bin with containers that are stacked to limit the ground space they take up and which open by an amusing yet ergonomic mechanism. This project is a series of work based on surprise applied to everyday objects.

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Raptures Thesis director: Nicola Borg Pisani * Work on optical illusions studied from different angles: scientific, technical, artistic, philosophical, etc. It is organised into booklets that complement and answer each other. * Architect, teacher

Sandrine Herbert

Paracity Project for an architecture festival in Vienna, Austria, 2005. This programme questions how we inhabit urban space.

This inhabitable structure deconstructs the main functions of the home into three mobile modules: - “Parabox” : protecting, sleeping; - “Eatlab” : eating; - “Paradouche” : supply point, washing, hydrating.

Each of these modules is reversible. Each element of the project acts as a temporary interface within the urban space.

We designed and built these modules and inhabited the public space during the festival.

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Link Link is an interactive slab placed at the entrance to your home that serves as a tidy.

The slab is covered in a tactile surface. When electronic objects (mobile telephone, digital camera, USB key, etc.) are placed on it, the data contained inside them can be viewed and handled. The slab acts as an X-ray that reveals the contents of the objects (music files, address book, photos, videos, etc.) and reflects it all around. Thanks to the tactile interface, the user intuitively handles digital data by touch, and can file, store and send data in and to the different machines.

Link is a simple way of linking objects together (with no plugs or wires) in order to download and exchange data.

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Magnetics Magnetics are lowvoltage lights in which the assembly structures and switch system are created thanks to magnetic force.

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URBAN PROMENADES Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

This project is part of the urban policy of the city of Luxembourg and uses the “Hot City” Wi-Fi platform. This service is another way of exploring and finding one’s way in the city. It is based on “augmented signage”, i.e., a recognisable sign in the street that gives access to digital information in situ. These meeting points between digital city and real city are scattered around the city.

At these points, people can read and access written information about the city of Luxembourg and local cultural institutions, thanks to their mobile phone. They can take

this information with them thanks to the Urban Promenades interface. Based on a map of the city, on which a digital compass is superimposed, this interface enables users to find their way, to discover and find their bearings in a new territory, by navigating from one piece of information to another.

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Thesis director: Jacques-François Marchandise * Reflection on urban practices and the way they shift through digital uses.

To what extent do ICT renew the way in which we think the city?

How to anticipate the new forms of urban space? How does this field of investigation represented by the urban environment make ICT and their uses evolve?

My approach as a designer consists in exploring what is at stake and what is possible in terms of creation, usage, function and form, based on the observation and analysis of digital urban projects, experimentations and artistic proposals.

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ITC: Information Technologies and Communication

* Philosopher and NTIC expert (FING), teacher, ENSCI

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AntrejAmbe This project raises the question of the use of the standard trestle.

It is an extension to the trestle. The idea is to string planks on the structure. Trays then fit in the openings to offer a storage system.

The project is under in development.

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In Between Shelf where you can put cards, images and notes. When new images arrive, others disappear into the width of the shelf in one movement, as though falling behind the furniture. An invitation to rehash your memories.

The product is made in one piece and is currently under in development with a manufacturer (aluminium prototype).

A brand signature Realized at ISMObjects, an Australian lighting design firm.

This project responds to a request for a brand identity. It is a label made in opaque sheetprinted punched-out polypropylene. Today the label is present throughout the range.

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S.O.H.O. Small Office Home Office Project director: Philippe Comte *

* Designer

This project is inscribed in the context of working from home and questions the limit between domestic space and professional territory. The spaces, objects and communication networks mix and mingle, making the personal and professional worlds overlap. Having stated this, how to re-territorialise each of these two sectors so that they can each maintain their respective entities?

Three elements define the project; an interface, a work table, and a lamp.

The interface All communication networks in the home go through a modem, synchronising all the communication tools in one base.

The project consists of a boundary-regulating tool that can define their porosity. It is an application that can filter, visualise and personalise communications in relation to a space dedicated to professional or personal activities. The levels can then be tweaked and nuanced.

The desk A kind of central island that can extend over neighbouring mediums. The shelves on the wall are an extension of the desk and are located in several parts of the house.

The lamp The goal was to qualify the light in relation to domestic or professional situations by acting directly on the light source.

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Privacy in a state Thesis director: Marie-Haude Caraës * This thesis deals with the question of the transformations that have taken place in the realm of privacy in contemporary society.

In dealing with this subject, I wanted to highlight the shifts in boundaries, bearings and values between the private and public spheres. The method that will provide this food for thought is photography, followed by analysis on this photographic work.

The private is by definition what does not appear, or what belongs to the private space. Yet it is nonetheless what I will seek to capture by taking photographic portraits in public. My first images give an account of my attempts to qualify the private. I then slip towards successions and series of images that reveal the passage from one state to another. We become the witnesses of what happens before and after my intrusion into the photographed subject’s space. * Political scientist, Head of Research, Cité du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

David Juillard Elo Revalorisation of running water A fruity recipe, a refreshing well, Elo seeks out its other half, takes tap water, flavour and colour and offers it to welcome a friend.

The “Tête en l’air” hut An indoor hut designed as a creative medium for drawing, painting, theatre… To be built by children from the age of 6 up, with their parents, using semi-finished products (PVC tubes, wood, paper).

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Project in partnership with the SNCF (French Railways) on the theme of comfort in the twotier TGV high-speed trains. A multi-use space dotted throughout the train in which travellers can play, dream, communicate, or simply walk…

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Premature birth Project director: Katie Cotellon *

* Design manager EDF (French electricity)

In French hospital centres, premature babies are placed in incubators. While these undoubtedly increase the child’s chances of survival, they also raise numerous questions: - what becomes of the mother-infant relationship?

- does this separation cause trauma?

- how to privilege and improve this relationship?

This project sets out to favour the relationship between the child, its family, and the hospital by drawing on a cultural transfer: “kangaroo” carrying.

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This thesis proposes to show the need to shift project problematics to their cultural “frontiers” and better account for the diversity of customs that make up our world by generating a new relationship. * Director “Paris - Berlin” International event

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Arnaud Lapierre Sens [Sense] Tactile alarm clock.

Partnership with Swatch + AVH, Association Valentin Ha端y. An object designed exclusively for night-time, when senses other than sight are called upon. It is easy to find, because it is always located at the head of the bed. Here the number 12 is indicated in Braille to facilitate the direction in which the alarm clock should be read.

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Alinea

Partnership with Thomson. This MP3 player doubles up as a purse and a wallet for the perfect trendy city slicker.

A break in the reading, a stop on the last line.

Alinea is a page marker made of ecological paper. With a range of different colours you can mark your pages by theme, its cut allowes it to snap at the border of any pages, and its arrow targets the citation in which you are interested the most, or the last line before you fall asleep.

Edited by P.A Design.

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Commonplace Revising the archetypes of hotel rooms Project director: Christophe Gaubert *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

A hotel room does not present itself as an everyday place: its location, context of use, and temporary nature make it a timeless space out of step with daily living.

The condition Locking the door occurs as a prolongation of closing it; as you pull the handle inside, it disappears on the other side, outside.

The aberration A chair often loses its function as a seat and turns into a bedside table for the night. It is possible to eliminate the main function of the chair without upsetting its formal language and while asserting a new possible use.

Casualness The occupants are not responsible for their room, but they can make it their own through their own choices.

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The imprint, the sense of absence Thesis director: Marie-Haude CaraĂŤs *

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A shape is born from an elementary contact, from any kind of pressure. And the imprint is the most basic formal process above all. Yet while the imprint is both a way of creating forms and the result of its process, it is also a tool for conceptualising the world. For man, it is an object of reflection that symbolises past and present, unique, authentic, and imaginary. Making an imprint means creating a sense through absence. * Political scientist, Head of Research, CitĂŠ du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Florent Lefevre Hypnotic chamber Exhibition “I’ve Heard About”, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, 2005.

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Entre deux nuages

Scenography of the exhibition, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 2005 Project director Mathieu Lehanneur

Exhibition design for the Knoll showroom in Paris, on the theme of travel, Designer’s Days 2005.

With Sylvain Rieu-Piquet, Swann Bourotte and Cyril Afsa.

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Physiological anticipation of time during a long-distance flight.

Project director: Mathieu Lehanneur *

Extending design’s scope of intervention beyond visible matter means redefining the whole environment. The most recent research on chronobiology reports a possibility of acting upon the circadian endocrinal system that manages our biological rhythms, in particular the sleeping/waking cycle, through microclimatic disturbances of space.

Taking long-distance flight as its context, this project sets out to provoke a traveller’s sleeping or waking phases. It entails a gentle transformation−conversion−of the intracorporeal landscape by treating the extracorporeal space of the subject.

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DES OBJETS POLYCHROMES Directeur de projet : Jean-Louis Fréchin*

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La grande entreprise hygiéniste du xxe siècle a poussé les modernes à évacuer la polychromie de la création des objets – notamment en ameublement – certainement parce que le pouvoir illusionniste de la couleur la rendait suspecte. Cet abandon laisse sa trace sur l’objet industriel contemporain (bien sûr, la production d’articles multicolores existe toujours mais s’inscrit dans des niches précises comme l’objet fantaisie, l’enfance, le sport, les vacances et autant d’instants « parenthèse ». Elle reste étrangère à l’automobile, l’électroménager, etc.)

Pourtant, ce caractère trompeur de la couleur reste à discuter : en refusant celle-ci et en posant comme seule vérité la perception du volume, c’est une part de son humanité que le créateur refoule. Goethe explique dans son Traité de la couleur, que cette dernière n’existe que dans l’œil de l’homme et non dans la nature ; ses perceptions sont toutes aussi réelles que la conception scientifique de l’espace. Réintroduire la polychromie dans l’objet industriel, c’est accepter de travailler sur la perception, l’évocation, l’irrationnel et peut-être abandonner la maîtrise complète si

chère au produit puisque la couleur a toujours résisté aux grands projets de rationalisation.

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Lilliputian f(r)ictions / Materials of the invisible Thesis director: Alexandra Midal *

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In the almost endless list of structures that make up our environment, there seems to be room for another Lilliputian fantasy.

The invisible, more than the visible, is the material of our habitat, living bodies, and the elements. Paradoxically, there was almost no way of measuring this void until the 19th century, when new instruments enabled us to qualify the ungraspable in physical, chemical, biological, or electromagnetic terms. Thanks to the means made available to scientists, the frontiers of this imperceptible world can today be crossed. Given the abyss that opens up, it is now possible to speculate on the unseen perspectives, to intervene in the invisible space of matter and the microscopic, whose minuscule dimensions give a glimpse of a huge potential. * Design critic, curator

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Marie de Lignerolles PAINTOA Gaz de France 2003 Competition, with Quentin Marmier and Jean-Sébastien Pagnon on the “Urban Oasis” theme. (“Grain de folie” prize awarded by the jury). Combine the spontaneous appearance of weeds with another spontaneous urban practice: graffiti. Result: a spray which turns the city temporarily green by spraying nutritive moss and seeds.

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187 LUMINI A diode light that you can hold in your hand without risking electrocution.

It reveals basic industrial components such as a copper wire, a flat battery, an element, a diode. A single copper wire becomes the structure, the conductor and the lampshade too.

OND’et BRUM These two porcelain objects can be re-used ad infinitum and allow you to cleanse your face without added preservatives, unlike products distributed by the cosmetics industry.

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Awful, ghastly, not so nasty Project director: Nathalie Bruyère *

* Designer

This project seeks to question the idea of norms, standards and cleanliness, as determined by industrial production that proposes large-scale notions of all that is beautiful, white and clean.

Starting point: take the residue of daily life that we adamantly try to eradicate with the help of various bits of equipment–stains, marks, dirt, dust–in order to propose objects that are not washed.

A teapot that blackens on the outside, reminding us how much better tea is when it is infused.

A ceiling lamp that becomes covered in a veil of dust destined to filter part of the light it emits while purifying the rest of the room of CO2, bacteria, cigarette smoke…

Porous bathroom tiles on which the bathwater drips and which remove some of the limescale generally destined for the bathwater.

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Nest, small anthology of the decorative obsession Thesis director: Alexandra Midal * What more can be said about decoration?

Condemned by modernity, celebrated by postmodernists, where are we today? Can we take it out of the fields of trend and trade and analyse it objectively, divested of its mercantile glad rags? This analysis is based on a selection of articles from Nest, a cult New York magazine from the late 1990s that focused on interiors entirely decorated by their owners, mostly anonymous, that didn’t set out to get media coverage and were first and foremost an utterly personal mode of expression. * Design critic, curator

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Olivier Mohr Unil (with Alexandre Lepeu) A waterside hotel room.

The entrance to the hotel is on the shore. The sign stands on the pontoon, where guests embark.

Each room is a small island, entirely separate from the others, and accessed by boat.

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Alzheimer, my love Project director: Bernard Moïse *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

Alzheimer is a disabling pathology that strongly affects patients and their families.

What can a designer bring to this particular context? How to recreate a space for life’s pleasures? How to facilitate simple, everyday gestures that have become highly complicated?

“step by step” project “step by step” is an evolving recipe aid unit that features a work surface equipped with a chopping board, containers, an induction hob, scales, and a touch-screen that indicates how to prepare the meal. Used at a very early stage, it delays the effects of degeneration.

“Balivernes” [Balderdash!] project “Balivernes”is a board game where people tell stories. Primarily focused on communication and memorisation, players create their own stories as the game progresses, with no constraints on time or coherency. Each player repeats his/her story in turn, changing and improving it constantly depending on the new elements they obtain. The aim of the game is to reach the other side of the board without losing track of your story.

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Design makes moral Thesis director: Alexandra Midal *

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What is the nature of the relationship between morals and design? How has this relationship evolved during recent design history? To what extent are designers able and willing to intervene in the creation of objects and environments? What “social attitudes” result when they do?

What is the definition of good and evil in design? Does design have specific morals?

The question of morals is omnipresent in the design of objects. It is all the more openly posed when the designer designs products for others. No designer seems to be able to overlook this question, which, beyond the notion of morals, raises the issue of responsibility towards one’s contemporaries, society, the world, and the generations of tomorrow. * Design critic, curator

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Bless scenography Stage design for the “Bless” fashion show at the Carrousel du Louvre.

The objective: bring the street into the Carrousel du Louvre.

A projected film mixes models parading down the Avenue des Champs Elysées with passers-by.

The film integrates the models and the models reflect images.

Creation of a virtual waiting hall in the Gare du Nord train station in Paris The aim of this digital design project was to imagine a service for Gare du Nord users based on the new possibilities offered

by Wi-Fi. The idea was to turn the user into a “master”of the site so as to make it their own.

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Abracadasserie The art of sublimating the upsets of daily life. A white cotton tablecloth, partially waterproofed, reveals a pattern when a liquid is spilled on it.

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Tool for time management Project director: Christophe Gaubert *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

Watches are no longer our primary tool for time management; nowadays, we use the mobile phone. At the same time, if we want a “temporal object� that does not distort our relationship to time, it must be built around the very notion of time, i.e., it must relegate the telephone function to the level of the other functions needed to juggle with different temporalities. Organising one’s time means having the appropriate tools available and dismissing the unnecessary ones.

The system I am proposing is an evolving personal digital time-management object.

This mass-produced item will provide each user with a unique object in relation to their very own management of time.

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The unforeseen Thesis director: Marie-Haude Caraës *

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This thesis attempts to harness the unforeseen. I have traded different tactics.

I put in words: the unforeseen is that which was not planned or seen beforehand.

If I define it, I know what it is. I then try to capture it, but what I capture is no longer the unforeseen moment, but the unforeseen story, which could be termed anecdotal because it seems futile. Since I cannot grasp the instantaneousness, I try to generate it, but as soon as I generate it I annihilate it: if it is foreseeable (because I am expecting it) why would it still be unforeseen? There, I’ve gone and lost it again!… The only question that then remains when discussing the unforeseen is: “What’s the point of it?”…Maybe here we will find a finality, or at least a source of creativity? * Political scientist, Head of Research, Cité du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Pomme Montfort Origato Competition for the Salon du Jouet de Paris [Paris Toy Fair] , category “Gourmandise ludique” [Fun Treats] (2003) A book of cake moulds made of greaseproof paper, to be assembled according to the origami method. Each mould is associated with a recipe. The child takes part in every stage of making a cake. This book has been published by Flammarion since May 2008.

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Haie-Rissée [Hedge-hogger] Haie-rissé is a garden fence planted in bushes.

It is sold in bundles in home and garden superstores. The bushes are extruded and precut. Each branch is composed of a metal core surrounded by flexible PVC. Once the fence has been planted, the neighbours decide together how to fill in the spaces. Haie-rissé is a living, permeable object, a medium for exchange between neighbours.

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This project highlights the influence of repeated use on an object. Erosion through habit reveals the double sidedness of an object.

In profile, the user encounters a form.

The mirrored surface is revealed when the user is facing the object.

Two propositions : The mirror (1) and the soap (2).

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Loess Project director: Christophe Gaubert *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

A digital data broadcast and consultation system for the home. Digital technology serves everyday life integrating the strata already present in the home: walls, furniture, objects. Depending on requirements, the user can call up the objects in the system, as well as simple functions and data that can then be recomposed.

The first use of the system is discreet subdued broadcast. In this configuration, the Loess system functions alone, and the furniture broadcasts.

The second use is for data consultation and broadcast. The user takes charge of the system and allots broadcast zones in relation to particular practices. To do this, he/she stores access to a group of data on the furniture that can be read and listened to by associating his/her key to a different kind of broadcaster.

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Daily habits Thesis director: Marie-Haude Caraës *

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Habits and everyday life are the very kernel of existence, invariably hardened by repetition and by pacts sealed in our bearings in space and time. It is these pacts with the context of life that generate what is commonly known as “everyday life”.

When man builds his relationship with the world, he uses objects. They hold a major place in the adoption and durability of habits because they become systems of reference of the everyday world and litter the space we inhabit. The everyday object is the medium of habit, we can even say that it supports it and becomes a piece of oneself, like the continuity of one’s arm or hand.

These prosthesis-objects, the prolongation of our limbs, have the technical and practical skill to aid the body as faithfully as possible in its everyday acts. * Political scientist, Head of Research, Cité du Design, St-Etienne, Teacher, ENSCI

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Stéphanie Pagis Virtual Station Partnership with the SNCF and TELECOM ParisTech.

In tandem with Chloe Barreau. A specific communication and services platform for a mainline train station.

The virtual station is software that groups together all the existing SNCF services and proposes other new ones, generated by the new network technologies.

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A beautiful vase Make a container that will exist, even when empty, an object that stands for itself, that is not a concept, that is simply a beautiful vase… A modular vase that adapts to flowers.

You compose the vase in relation to the bouquet.

Lucioles Neo-objects - Living objects. Partnership with Interface Z and VIA. What could be an object qualified as alive, reflexive and sensitive in the home? Lucioles is a fun, interactive, tactile light designed to bring the light in the house to life.

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(re)Active School Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin*

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

School plays a decisive role in the development and construction of society and the individual (access to autonomy, social integration, economic development…). Yet it seems to encounter difficulties in fulfilling its mission with all pupils. Does the problem come from the programmes, the teachers, or resources available?

This project presents a set of methods, situations and tools that will serve several important objectives: - redefine training objectives in relation to the needs of the individual and of society; - give teachers concrete use (in class) of hands-on teaching tools and optimise the use of nascent discoveries; - guarantee successful literacy for each child; - individualise learning in relation to the needs of each child; - offer all available resources to favour development of child autonomy…

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Thesis director: Jacques-François Marchandise * This thesis invites you to discover the realm of education and existing resources for children’s needs.

The point is to create tools that optimise the use of existing educational material.

In order to let all children benefit from these resources, state schools urgently need to be equipped with new means to use the pluses of hands-on pedagogy in class.

At the same time, this thesis will be used as a project generator to aid literacy and the development of child autonomy. * Philosopher and NTIC expert (FING), teacher, ENSCI

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Robin Project for the “Artificial Garden” exhibition at the French Cultural Centre in Milan during the Milan furniture Fair, 2006. Manufactured

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Artificial Nature.

Ambion Partnership with Kenwood Design, Japan.

In tandem with Matthew Marino.

Listening to music in a domestic setting.

Digital music player for the living room.

The information displayed on this player participates in the musical atmosphere.

Circa Partnership with Tag Heuer. In tandem with Lucie Dorel, overseen by eliumstudio (Marc Berthier, Pierre Garner, Gilles Caillet). This watch offers three levels for reading the time, adapted to the rhythm of the activities in a day. From the tick of a second to the time already spent and the exact time as well.

The model was displayed at the Musée de l’Horlogerie in Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, and then in Europe.

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Electromagnetic waves what attitiude for design?

Project director: Gilles Belley *

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Certain electromagnetic wave frequencies (EMW) cannot be perceived by humans.

Information on their effects is not yet known, yet these waves are used by electronic products employed in everyday life. How to make the logic of industrial performance cohabit with experience of use tinged with doubt ? I apply the safety-first principle and propose an alternative for designing a Wi-Fi network and a UMTS mobile phone.

The Wi-Fi computer station uses on-line current to subdivide and diminish EMW emission in the home. It is more modular

and enables better network management.

As for the mobile phone, the aerial can be placed far from the handset, enabling EMW emission to be adapted to evolving uses as well as improving emission readability.

This project is a message to industrial manufacturers, legislators, and therefore to consumers. It proves the extent to which this design approach would benefit development of the information and telecommunication networks of the future and their associated interactions.

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The Designer’s Involvement with his Job Thesis director: Annie Gentès * This research is founded on meetings with a number of professionals(1) during which I tried to identify the tensions, compromises and driving forces in the designer’s creative activity. My survey questions the contours of the profession of designer, the way it is carried out, and the relationship an individual has with his or her profession.

It provides information on the way designers manage contradictory aspirations in relation to situations and the art of balancing an individual’s different interests between professional accomplishment and material constraint.

(1) C. Ayroles, F. Azambourg, B. Borja de Mozota, S. Bourotte, Y. Colin, J-L.Fréchin, L. Massaloux, N.Minvielle, S. Vernet. * Teacher, researcher, TELECOM ParisTech

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Damien Roffat Monsieur X The Jura Glasses manufacturers Competition “Emotion and Simplicity”.

Work on linkage elements. X is a good synthesis, for it is both an element of infinite linkage and a symbol of anonymity. This project passed the first two selection stages, which enabled the glasses frame to be manufactured with a prototypist from the firm LPS.

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Partnership with the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris.

This service proposes that homeowners seeking to renovate their property integrate energy savings into their project. A virtual model of the property to be renovated is made to allow simulations of the work to be done and to reduce the building’s ecological footprint, while also comparing the costs entailed.

Coemballage [Copackaging] ADEME competition “Reducing waste at the source”.

A project to rationalise packaging, based on creative specifications.

Coemballage is a research consultancy exclusively devoted to eco-designed generic packaging that can contain a maximum number of different products.

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JARDINONS [Let’s garden] Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin*

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

Designing a collaborative garden space following a series of user surveys on family gardens and shared gardens.

It is more a participative museographic content−a museum of the living 2.0 where knowledge comes through practice−than a space. Planning a space such as this involves knowledge and transmission of knowledge, sites, and temporalities. The gardening plots form the main element. Unlike traditional gardens, they will have to be “talkative” and communicate to the viewer.

Around these plots a number of complementary activities are proposed, open to all. These “helping hands” are presented as missions (green fingers, wild oats, pip eater…) and aim to help gardeners with the organic management of their plot.

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Buying power Thesis director: Sophie Coiffier *

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The consumer society is heavily implicated in my future profession. The issue in this thesis is to gradually move away from my own experience as a consumer and confront it with other ways of acting, other ways of envisaging consumerism. This thesis starts with a foreword that traces the evolution of my choices with food. I try to explain the reasons that now lead me to “ethical buying”.

I continue by observing what we call “citizen consumerism” as a social phenomenon.

I then explore the other workings of consumerism, with a section on the consumer and technology and another on social status.

The aim is to enrich my “ConsumActor” argument but also and above all to find the keys to re-qualify my profession. A theme I have tackled in “A Product Designer’s Conclusion.”

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Marine Rouit Chair The seat is composed of a fine wood veneer stuck to a thin steel sheet. The structure is then soldered. The wood burns at the soldering points. The decoration thus takes form.

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Partnership with the Valentin Hauys, association to help the blind and partially sighted.

This collection of tactile, sound jewellery features four items: a medallion, a bracelet, a pendant, and earrings.

Islands In the context of the Enigmes research project, coordinated by Roland Cahen.

An instrument interface for musical improvisation, composed of a collection of surfaces in relief.

The slope and pressure with which the stylus is applied modulate the sound, as does the rapidity with which it is played, generating a subtle interpretation and making it enjoyable for musicians to use.

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Paper, a “sensitive” surface Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin*

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

This project proposes an exploration of the technological and visual qualities of paper: its translucency and fragility, but also its conductivity. These properties are used to implement digital objects in which “tactile perception” is modified. These three projects give rise to the unlikely encounter between the digital and paper.

With the screen, paper becomes a supple and translucent “medium”, a “substratum”.

It replaces the copper-printed circuit.

With the radio, it becomes the electronic object’s functional area. With the notebook, it becomes an interface, a way of interacting with the machine.

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AKARI is a light screen.

A sheet of tracing paper, on which a silver network mounted with LEDs is printed, is placed on a conductive structure. Whether lit or not, the object “designs� the space while remaining lightweight.

OTO is a radio

KURO is a paper

composed of a moulded paper membrane whose surface acts as both a resonator and an interface to control the volume and the tuner.

notebook that connects to your computer.

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An everyday aesthetic Thesis director: Renaud Ego * The mystery behind daily life is the way it wears things out, the slow erosion that leads to the object losing its value, sometimes to the point of obliteration.

Through the very different experience I had of Japanese daily life, I discovered that it was possible to conceive of another relationship to the most humdrum situations, and I have tried to understand what pleasure in Japanese daily life is composed of. The aim of this thesis is to research a definition of an “everyday aesthetic�: the historical crossover between art and everyday life, the problem this poses in the West, and the trip I made to Japan that enabled me to approach the question via the relationship to things, allow me to have a better grasp of the way that designers can work in everyday life.

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Matthieu Savary Visa Prism Partnership with Visa Europe, in teamwork with Soufiane Adel.

Using a coloured instant classification system of bank card payments, this system offers an affordable representation of expenditure with each account statement and facilitates keeping track of the family budget through an on-line extension.

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Unit “Unit” twists an essential problem when working with wood: the curve.

And takes the opposite approach to bending by reinterpreting the technique of pre-angulated slats, characteristic of barrelmaking. A twisted cord (un)-screw system inspired by the tenon saw enables unlimited transformation of the curve.

TVCM, Télévision à Choix Multiples [Multiple Choice Television] In teamwork with Soufiane Adel.

This project proposes a more “qualitative than quantitative” use of digital technology in the television context: combining programmes from several channels, focusing on one subject to supply content with multiple perspectives.

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Synetypes and Cinetypes, New Representations of the Real for a Mature Digital Era Project director: Bruno Moretti *

* Designer

A shaft of rain, grass, sea and air receives a fur-lined cartridge that analyses and records the reality of the journey in terms of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, sound intensity, colorimetry and movement.

All data that can be used in the synthesis of varied synetypes: series of sweets flavoured with the noises of Hong Kong, ink palettes in the colours of the surface of Mars, liquor with the alcohol content of Mexico City…

A camera obscura. Digital, but incapable of transcribing reality instantly. No viewfinder, but infinitely patient and open onto reality.

An albino reindeer coming out of a wood, a bright full moon flooding the night.

All moments that the camera can capture, save, and gently but gradually reveal through the movements of its flesh made of numbers and light: cinétypes. Until the image is born and, in order to live, has to revert to motion.

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Puissances de 2 [Powers of 2] (Read the thesis on-line at http://puissances-de-2. msavary.fr)

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This thesis aims to come up with visual proof that digital photography has the quality of being a “medium in its own right”. It is inspired by the approach of video filmmakers Steina and Woody Vasulka: “The majority of images, still or moving, are based on capturing them from the visible world with the help of the camera-obscura principle through a process involving the interaction of light with a photo-emulsion surface... …In electronic imaging, we have discovered that there is an inner model of imaging, which is not related to traditional camera-obscura imaging.” Woody Vasulka * Video artist

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MP3 Earring Partnership with Kenwood. This MP3 player is a simple earring that contains enough memory for a day’s average playing time.

Screen Partnership with Kenwood, project designed with Julien Legras. We chose to bring hi-fi technology into a traditional object that we are accustomed to using: a screen.

The different spatial configurations it can give correspond to different configurations for listening to music.

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La Pliée Two laser-cut folded metal pieces, assembled by the fold, form a chair. The use of the fold enables the two pieces to hold together and rids the metal of its sharp edges. La Pliée is currently produced

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Domestic technics Project director: Erwan Bouroullec *

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The source of these projects comes from domestic textile techniques. Using models listed in the “Encyclopédie des ouvrages pour dames” (embroidery, weaving, plaiting, macramé, sewing, lace making…) I developed my own experiments. My work is based on two constructive elements: digitally cut wood, and threads, ropes, straps, ribbons, and “foam sausages” as stuffing elements.

Storage furniture Three frames are cut from wood: the first is used for assembly, with mountaineering ropes; the second maintains the geometry of the furniture by triangulation using sailing rope stretched between two rods, the same principle as old-style saws; the third enables the bottom of the furniture items to be closed off.

Lantern Three frames cut in the wood at different depths through which wires can be passed, creating a kind of lampshade emitting a soft light.

Low armless chair A cut wood structure enables the seat to be woven with webbing and strips of foam that form a supple yet taut sandwich. Each strip passes alternately in front of and behind the webbing, thus maintaining constant tension.

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The paradoxes of discretion Thesis director: Philippe Louguet * Giving an object visibility is one of the effects of design; is it therefore possible to claim discretion? This thesis proposes to explore this question by explaining the paradoxes of discretion in general and in the field of creation in particular. Does that which is discreet not display some of its own discretion, after all? * Architect

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Ecodesign Bois Bourgogne Internship and consultancy led

by Philippe Jarniat (VIA) and Sophie Labroussec (CTBA).

Regional operation to accompany businesses in manufacturing eco-designed furniture.

CD-Rom design; accompanying businesses associated with the operation; designing a stand to present the furniture at the 2007, Salon du Meuble (Furniture Fair).

Ecoscope Partnership with O2 and La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris.

A banking service that can be consulted on-line and which makes the environmental impacts linked to our purchases legible. For each euro spent, users have an idea of the pollution it more or less entailed.

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Establishing patient support through dedicated events, a follow-up book and a website..

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Faire compagnie, un projet de cohésion rurale [Making company, a rural cohesion project] Project director: Stéphane Villard *

* Designer R&D EDF (French electricity)

The aim of this project is to introduce a design approach to a given territory and to design a service that illustrates this approach. It is a participatory approach, on the scale of the Canton of Lormes (58), which has highlighted the needs of the inhabitants and enabled answers to be proposed and confronted.

“Faire compagnie” is therefore a community project that brings the inhabitants and professionals of a rural area into contact with each other and enables transport and service exchanges. By joining this service, the inhabitants become an “Active Neighbour” or a “Pro Active” and can exchange services and transport with the aid of “Quarter Hours”.

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Thesis director: Jacques-François Marchandise * This thesis is divided into two distinct books.

The first presents general thoughts on the rural context and the stakes at play in these territories. It addresses the history of local development and planning and the notion of project territory. It is partly based on meetings with various local players (members of parliament, development agents, service providers). The second book is constructed as a guide for local players. It presents reflections on the way in which designers could intervene in development for a given area, notably on the scale of the region (a project scale that is larger than a group of counties and smaller than an administrative department). The ambition of this thesis is to be understood both by designers who are not familiar with local development and by local players for whom design is a new approach.

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Clément Tibi Deci-delà Partnership with Tefal.

A range of hybrid cookery tools that work on mains and hotplates.

An electric element is embedded in the container in cast-iron aluminium.

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Universal control system enabling a visual and tactile evolution of packaging that facilitates the perception of a product’s freshness.

Bridled objects, Less & More Partnership with Hermès.

Linking elements made up of leather straps that enable different small travel objects to be associated in order to make them autonomous and easily transportable.

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SWEET OBJECTS Project director: Jean-Louis Fréchin*

Globalisation lets us see the world as a huge network of abilities. To evolve or innovate, businesses have no choice but to join forces in order to form “business ecosystems”.

Do designers have a role to play in this context? Not in businesses, but between businesses?

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Sweet objects is a range of mediating objects developed around an Internet Access Provider.

It expresses the way in which designers can boost a federative project between different industrial players. By associating their skills, together they can propose new uses.

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Designers mainly focus on giving shape to initiatives or business projects that already exist, sometimes to the detriment of their own convictions. To create a more direct link between intent and creation, industrial designers could imagine setting up a business as a means of action, a move from thoughtbased initiative to hands-on initiative. But can design be at the heart of an entrepreneurial approach? Do designers’ skills and abilities favour this type of action? * Ethnologist, researcher, CNRS

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Benjamin Tovo Extime [Extimate] Collection The neologism “extime” [extimate] is borrowed from Michel Tournier and means the exterior of the intimate. In collaboration with LetraSet, Gallimard Editions wanted to publish a special collection. The Extime diary was thus created.

Its translucency must allow the elusive snatches of life to filter through and renew the appeal of personal diaries.

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The bodybuilding hammer Hit, harder, grit those teeth, clench that fist, you’re building your body, expanding it, extending your time and actions. You’re doing it, you’re doing it: Just do it!

Lunatic Jura eyewear Manufacturers , Competition 2006, in collaboration with Galilée al Rifaï “Lunatic” dark glasses become a piece of jewellery when worn around the neck.

Their titanium frame is designed in the shape of a necklace, the bridge opens onto a metaphor of two teardrops, two pearls set between two loops.

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Up against the wall Project director: François Azambourg *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

What would a designer do in prison, apart from serve a sentence? What freedom can a designer have in this system of rigorous constraints? I decided to go to a prison to confront myself with the aptness of objects–rare and burdensome, precious and dangerous, useful and useless; above all, necessary. I therefore worked on “necessaries”, the basic items. In this prison context, however, the designer must take several visions, contradictory requirements: the administration and its penitentiary mission, the warden, the inmate, the co-inmate, and also public opinion.

The resulting objects will certainly be evasive and imperfect: they stand at the crossroads of these constraints, which reflect a veritable power struggle. Can prison objects only be the result of negotiation?

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On the paths of vocation Thesis director: Marc Partouche *

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Dear Mr. P., A third-year student at ENSCI - Les Ateliers, I am currently starting my thesis work.

As the end of term nears, the time has come to sum up my studies on my own terms, which I have chosen among a thousand other possibilities: “vocation”. Perhaps, during this thesis, I shall manage to unravel the mystery of vocation, and create one for myself.

If I ultimately had to answer to a profession of faith, if not my professionalism, I would naturally be overjoyed.

Yours, B.T. * Research expert, Cité du Design, St-Etienne

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Groom Partnership with the SNCF (French Railways).

A mobile onsite luggage locker service that takes the form of a trolley which travellers can lock and secure using their train ticket. Groom facilitates access, mobility, and waiting at the station, making journeys more enjoyable for travellers.

Tutti Turni Partnership with Orfim.

Sorbet-maker whose function correspond to the various capacities of the motor: running slowly, silently, etc., despite the changing consistency of the ice cream.

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Meetree A concept for porcelain objects for Rosenthal (competition). The idea is to be able to present food in the form of little mouthfuls laid out as a savoury path of discovery. Each is presented as a singular culinary experience.

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The kitchen: a space for passing on traditions Project director: Christophe Gaubert *

* Designer, project director, ENSCI

My project revolves around the central item that is the kitchen table. I assembled a set of functions around a table to help children learn and appreciate the pleasures of cooking.

The table therefore features a cooking area, a cold area for preserving and presenting fruit and vegetables, and a sink. The essential gestures of cooking–veritable vectors of know-how (preparation, cooking, hygiene)–are visible on the table itself.

I am seeking to create a situation that will encourage transmission between generations, thereby proposing a new identity for the contemporary kitchen.

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On the inexactness of objects, spontaneous objects, and design objects Thesis director: Sophie Coiffier *

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Can one talk of the inexactness of objects?

The exactness of an object lies in its programming, what the designer planned, and what the user’s attitude to the object should be. The extent of an object’s inexactness thus appears in the leeway afforded the user, an unplanned or unpredictable attitude towards the user.

By analysing user practices, we endeavour to see how designers approach them in new ways to give the object new possibilities.

Can the designer allow for this unexpectedness? If so, how? And what benefits does it bring users? * Artist, writer, teacher

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CD The ANAT (Atelier National d’Art Textile) offers a three-year course specialised in textile design that prepares students for the Textile Designer Master degree. Students accepted by the ANAT will have had multidisciplinary artistic training and hold a first- and second-year higher education diploma.

Textile designers are involved in multiple fields: fashion, houseware, transport, architecture… They create textiles, use threads and colours, design woven or knitted textures and jacquards and prints. They are creative and anticipate the styles and trends to come, but are also technicians that specialise in fabrics, their properties and treatment methods, and manufacturing constraints.

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The first two years of the ANAT programme are devoted to teaching, research, and textile design projects.

The diversity of the teaching covers all the aspects of textile design, from elaboration through to product manufacture.

The programme focuses on experimentation and workshop research: each student has access to highly diversified and effective tools to create their textiles.

The programmes are organised by semester and are followed by all the students in a year. The ANAT applies the ECTS system: one year totals 60 credits.

The third and final year is a synthesis involving a long-term internship in a company and/or a study trip abroad, plus preparation for the degree project.

The subject of the degree depends on the preoccupations and sensibilities of the student and bears witness to their ability to project themselves in the context of professional issues. It is the result of analysis and reflection on a theme, takes certain needs into account, offers new uses, and brings an original, innovative solution.

It is elaborated with the support of a project tutor and a pedagogical team. The degree involves: a textile collection, a one-off piece or a production piece; it can be developed in partnership with a fashion designer, an architect, a designer, a manufacturer or a scenographer.

It is accompanied by a document in which students explain their choice and specifications, justify their approach, and professional attitude.

Graduates enter varied sectors of the textile industry: textile creation industries for clothing, automotive furnishings, research and development departments; haute couture, ready-to-wear, style and trends…

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Pet objects For you and your bedroom, I have cultivated, hybridised and brought to fruition a collection of textiles and objects that are a tad flower, a touch animal. They combine and form one big family.

I have imagined and made objects that I deem intriguing, that question the user and do not reveal themselves at first glance: an animal lamp, a mineral and vegetal night light, a wake-up pillow and a cushion that seems to grow, like a strange but very soft plant‌

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Olivia Deruelle Canopy The canopy designates the summit of rainforests; it is an ecosystem floating between heaven and earth that is still relatively underexplored. This hanging world is a vector of dreams.

I used it as inspiration to imagine a spa.

This space dedicated to well-being is an invitation to exoticism through natural medicines.

On entering you discover an interface, the treatment bar, where you can choose a discipline. I focused on three treatments for which I propose mini textile collections. Each has a special graphic design and colour range which evoke the emotions that can be experienced during the session. The treatment bar serves as a fun guide that prefigures the notion of comfort and pleasure linked to this quest for well-being.

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Dreaming at home Man needs to get away from it all. Many people who live the western lifestyle want to forget their stressful occupations and the constraints these impose. Today dreams slip into our homes in multiple forms, as a way of getting away from it all and building a world conducive to escapism, where dreams and reality mingle.

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Future perfect Meditation on how to consume textile materials in today’s creative market. The main idea is to take a fresh look at old materials that seem unusable or unfunctional so that they can be readopted or renewed.

How can the life of a material be renewed so as to surpass the cycle in which it was constrained?

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Florie Mahe

Curiosities of nature

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I am not a city-dweller.

I spent my entire childhood and part of my teens in the countryside, in a small hamlet beside the Loire river. This place is still a world bustling and buzzing with curiosities, a microcosm of life, a myriad of little things to observe: subtle colours, astonishing forms, special materials, flowers disguised as insects, insects disguised as leaves, tiny animals, galleries hollowed out in the wood under the bark, bumps that look like fruit, sweets, or little pearls built by insects.

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Delfine Saltet

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Scientific buds

A restaurant constructed as an initiatory journey into the world of a kitchen laboratory where you learn, watch, test and understand.

An atmosphere of research, reflection, calculation, ebullience and transformation.

I elaborated this textile collection in situ, considered the fabrics as products responding to a predefined function.

In situ design that takes a given space into account and then dresses it.

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Project studio directors at ENSCI, who have directed student projects (see Portfolio) François Azambourg Guillaume Bardet Jean-François Dingjian Jean-Louis Fréchin (digital design) Christophe Gaubert Laurent Massaloux Bernard Moïse

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Publication Director of publication, director Les Ateliers-Paris Design Institute Alain Cadix Editor in chief Dominique Wagner Graphic design c-album : Anna Radecka, Laurent Ungerer, Rafaël Dausfrene (student intern from ENSCI-Les Ateliers) Student coordination Véronica Rodriguez Degree year coordination (Industrial designer) Dominique Averland Véronique Eicher (to September 2007) Myriam Provoost (from December 2OO7) Degree year coordination (Textile designer) Chantal Tournay 332

Translations Gail de Courcy Ireland Photography ® Véronique Huyghe Felipe Ribon Christophe Gaubert Thanks Liz Davis, Géraldine Méhigan Printing Maugein Imprimeurs, France October 2008 – dépôt légal n°303

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Index design graduates Industrial Design Graduates

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Textile Design Graduates

pierre-louis abel

abelpierrelouis@gmail.com

p 9 à 16

claire delahaye

lejardindeclaire@yahoo.fr

p 299 à 303

cyril afsa

cy_afsa@hotmail.com

p 17 à 24

olivia deruelle

oliviaderuelle@gmail.com

p 304 à 308

galilée al rifaï

galileealrifai@club-internet.fr

p 25 à 32

audrey ducas

audreyducas@yahoo.fr

p 309 à 313

pierre alex

pierre_alex@hotmail.com

p 33 à 40

laure magoutier

lauremagoutier@noos.fr

p 314 à 318

geraldine de beco

gdebeco@yahoo.com

p 41 à 48

florie mahé

florimahe@gmail.com

p 319 à 323

elodie bongrain

elobmail@gmail.com

p 49 à 56

delphine saltet

delphinesaltet@gmail.com

p 324 à 328

julie bouillaut

bouillautjulie@hotmail.fr

p 57 à 64

swann bourotte

swannrh@yahoo.fr

p 65 à 72

pauline chabolle

pchabolle@hotmail.com

p 73 à 80

agathe chiron

agathe4012@hotmail.com

p 81 à 88

caroline colin

caroline.colin@gmail.com

p 97 à 104

charlotte delomier

carlota.delomier@laposte.net

p 105 à 112

lucie dorel

lucie.dorel@laposte.net

p 113 à 120

julien fieulaine

fieulainejulien@hotmail.com

p 121 à 128

david gauquelin

gauquelin@gmail.com

p 129 à 136

constance guisset

constance.guisset@orange.fr

p 137 à 144

sandrine herbert

tcw@skoyp.com

p 145 à 152

paul jouan

pollllo88@yahoo.fr

p 153 à 160

david juillard

davidjuillard@yahoo.fr

p 161 à 168

arnaud lapierre

al@arnaud-lapierre.com

p 169 à 176

florent lefebvre

as2pik2000@yahoo.com

p 177 à 184

marie de lignerolles

marie.delignerolles@gmail.com

p 185 à 192

olivier mohr

olivier.mohr@laposte.net

p 193 à 200

madeleine montaigne

princess.mad@mageos.com

p 201 à 208

pomme montfort

pommem@hotmail.com

p 209 à 216

stéphanie pagis

stepagis@yahoo.fr

p 217 à 224

denis pellerin

denis.pellerin@gmail.com

p 225 à 232

damien roffat

damzi2003@yahoo.fr

p 233 à 240

marine rouit

zeugmarine@yahoo.fr

p 241 à 248

matthieu savary

mail@msavary.fr

p 249 à 256

marie-aurore stiker metral

mariaunette@hotmail.com

p 257 à 264

romain thévenet

romain.thevenet@gmail.com

p 265 à 272

clément tibi

clement.tibi@wanadoo.fr

p 273 à 280

benjamin tovo

oulk_inc@hotmail.com

p 281 à 288

anais triolaire

lobelia_anais@hotmail.com

p 289 à 296

A special mention for those ENSCI industrial design graduates ,who, already involved in new adventures, often in faraway places, were not able to contribute to the present catalogue. florence charron

flocha555@hotmail.com

cécile desille (in Brazil)

cdesille@hotmail.com

victor fromond (in China)

victorfromond2000@yahoo.fr

estelle magrin

estellemagrin@hotmail.com

françois régé-turo

fouregeturo@hotmail.com

bastien taillard

tize60@hotmail.com

anaïs vielfaure

anais_vielfaure@hotmail.com

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