Biennale
Internationale
Design
Saint-Étienne
On the occasion of the 12th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2022, the Dzing-Dzing conference Recherche et dessin (Research and Drawing), a reflection on drawing as a tool for participating in and transforming research.
Drawing is scrutinised in all its forms and methods.
Drawing for invention, experimentation, drawing for scientific representation, drawing and planning, drawing and design… How does drawing act ? How is it hybridised through new methods of representation? Technical representations, in 3D or in 2D, data visualisation, mapping, technical diagrams and/or narrative forms are tied in with new forms of design: service design, public policy design, etc. We can also question how the medium and the media transform what research has to tell us, how they instrumentalise and subjectivise it and inspire imaginary constructs at the frontiers of science, technology and creativity.
Design research under the influence of drawing.
Drawing can give shape to a research field, by influencing the design process itself. It activates semantics of forms, writing, grammars to draw out meaning and there by enliven and disrupt the research process. How does that happen ? What is it about drawing, the action of drawing that disorientates or re-orientates design research ? What does it tell us about the status and the state of that research ?
Dzing-Dzing- Rechercheet Dessin is organised around two themed half-day sessions on 18 and 19 May 2022, to contemplate the tools that might be used to express research and creativity in the light of new orientations and potential"bifurcations".
Organisation and selection committee
Nawal Bakouri, Director of ESAD Valenciennes (Higher School of Art and Design)
Armand Béhar, Co-Director of the Centre for research in design(ENS Paris Saclay/ENSCI-Les Ateliers).
Solène Bellanger, head of the research mission at the DGCA(Directorate General for Artistic Creation), Ministry of Culture
Sandra Chamaret, Director of ÉSAC Cambrai (Higher School ofArt and Communication)
Jérôme Delormas, Director of isdaT (Higher Institute of Artsof Toulouse)
Ludovic Duhem, research coordinator, ESAD Valenciennes
Catherine Geel, historian, ENSAD Nancy (Higher School of Artand Design), Sciences Po Paris, Centre for research in design (ENS ParisSaclay/ENSCI-Les Ateliers).
Axelle Grégoire, architect, lecturer at ESAD Valenciennes
Emmanuel Guez represented by Caroline Zahnd,manager of the ECOLAB research unit, ESAD Orléans (Higher School of Art andDesign)
Étienne Hervy, Director of ESAD Valence (Higher School of Artand Design)
Eric Jourdan, Director of ESADSE (Saint-Etienne Higher Schoolof Art and Design)
Romain Mathieu, PhD in the history of art, professor at ESADSE,joint head of the LEM (Modernity Experimentation Laboratory)
Xavier Moulin, coordinator of the Design in transition master's course, EESAB Brest (Brittany European School of Design)
Amel Nafti, Director of ESAD-GV (Higher School of Art and Design of Grenoble-Valence)
Ernesto Oroza, designer, Head of the postgraduate Design Research Cycle (CyDRe) at ESADSE, director of Azimuts magazine
Frédérique Pain, Director of ENSCI (Higher National School of Industrial Design), represented by Armand Béhar, Deputy Director of the Centre for research in design (ENS Paris Saclay/ENSCI-Les Ateliers)
Claire Peillod, Director of Cultural and Artistic Developmentat Cité du design-ESADSE
Olivier Peyricot, designer, director of the Cité du design research platform, Scientific Director of the 12th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2022
Corinne Sentou, Officer in charge of the Economics, Forward Planning and Artists' Careers mission with the Visual Arts delegation at theDGCA, Ministry of Culture
Emmanuel Tibloux, Director of ENSAD (Higher National School of Decorative Arts), represented by Aurélie Zita, Assistant Director of Studies in charge of international relations at ENSAD
Aude Vuillier, Officer in charge of the Fashion and Design Economy mission with the Office for creative industries/creative art trades –design – fashion, Visual Arts delegation at the DGCA, Ministry of Culture.
With the participation of
Armelle Antier
James Auger
Patrick Beaucé
Rosalie Blanc
Laure Brayer
Claire Brunet
Nathalie Bruyère
Karolina Borkowska
Renaud Chabrier
Isabelle Daëron
Ludovic Duhem
Rose Dumesny
Simone Fehlinger
Sylvia Fredriksson
Catherine Geel
Charlotte Goffette
Guillian Graves
Axelle Grégoire
Claude Imbert
Jürg Lehni
Chloé Lequette
Clémence Mathieu
Michka Mélo
Manon Ménard
Baptiste Meyniel
Sophie Pène
Olivier Peyricot
Gilles Rouffineau
Lucie Sahuquet
Eddy Terki
Aurore Turpinat
Adrien Vasquez
Caroline Zahnd
Samantha Zannoni
Programme
Wednesday 18 May 2022
13.00 pm: Arrival of participants
14.00 –14.20: Conference opening
14.20 – 15.00: Introduction
15.00 – 16.00: Round table 1: Production drawing
16.00 – 16.30: Esquisse 1
16.40 – 17.40: Round table 2: The death of drawing & counter-practices?Radicals & speculatives…
17.40 – 18.00: Esquisse 2
18.00 – 18.20: Conclusion with Guest Speaker
Registrationis free but mandatory
Programme details and mandatory registration
Thursday 19 May 2022
8.30 – 9 am: Arrival of participants
9.00 –10.00: Round table 3: Geometries of life/drawing and life sciences
10.00 – 10.30: Esquisse 3
10.40 – 11.40: Round table 4: Blurred lines. Drawing, a critical tool forrepresentations to take us beyond acosmism.
11.40 – 11.50 am: Esquisse 4
11.50 – 12.30: Summary with Guest Speaker
Registration is free but mandatory:
Programme details and mandatory registration
"Les Cahiers du Studio" andartist-illustrator
The two half-day sessions will be accompanied by an artist (Rosalie Blanc) and the documentation for the Dzing-Dzing conference will be based on the "Les Cahiers du Studio"system developed by L'Atelier des chercheurs.
"Les Cahiers du Studio" (The Studio Notebooks) is a collaborative chronological documentation tool for taking multimedia "notes" during an activity or event.
Rosalie Blanc is a graduate of ESADSE and holds an agrégation in design.As she loves to write, read and research, this year she is embarking on a thesis on the relationship between graphics and language. She is a graphic designer, but she also draws stories and it is in her capacity as an illustrator that she will be taking part in the Biennale.
L’Atelier des chercheurs (Sarah Garcin, Pauline Gourlet, Louis Eveillard)
L'Atelier des chercheurs is a collective of designers formed in 2013 who are involved increating free access, modular tools to transform the way we learn and work. These tools are mainly developed in collaboration with people working in the field, in settings as varied as schools, fablabs, third places and theatres.
The team in charge of theDzing-Dzing Notebook
Karolina Borkowska is currently an Azimuts postgraduate design and research student onthe CyDRe course at ESADSE. She is a researcher and graphic designer and she is developing a research approach characterised by a heightened curiosity focused on protocol, collection and analysis of archives and investigation, whilst questioning how that research is transmitted and editorialised. In her research she has questioned subjectivity and the limits of certain standards such as in translation or writing. She has also examined the place of the written form, language and its traces to tell stories that have been forgotten or overlooked such as that of the Kashubs, a Slavic people.
Sylvia Fredriksson is a lecturer and researcher with the ECOLAB at ESAD Orléans. The work of designer and researcher Sylvia Fredriksson focuses on the relationship between design, technology and politics, drawing on the question of commons in particular to rebuild critical trajectories. Developing a two-pronged career as a designer and a lecturer since 2006, between 2016 and 2018 she worked at the research department of the Cité du design in Saint-Étienne, where, among other things, she was in charge of the Design des Instances programme dedicated to new configurations of democratic spaces and tools, as well as curating the L’Expérience Tiers-Lieux – Fork The World exhibition for the Biennale Internationale Design 2017.
Lucie Sahuquet is an Azimuts postgraduate research on the CyDRe.
As a graphic designer interested in the political and social implications of written and spoken word, she questions the legitimacy and the function of sociolinguistic constructs.
Hers is a combined approach that draws on the humanities and design to make thesocial struggles at work in language visible, as well as the role of the designer in those struggles.
Caroline Zahnd is Director of Research at the ECOLAB, ESAD Orléans. Anartist and researcher, Caroline Zahnd is a graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Parisand ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Paris). She has been head of the ECOLAB research unit at ESAD Orléans since September 2020, where she runs the "Objects, crafts and computation" research programme with Olivier Bouton and Sylvia Fredriksson. As the elected teachers' representative on the board of directors of the national association of higher schools of art (ANdéA (Nationalassociation of art schools), she is the research coordinator on the association's executive committee. She is also a member of the specialist studies committee on research of the CNESERAC (National Council for Higher Education and Artistic and Cultural Research).
This conference is co-organised by the Ministry of Culture and the 12th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2022
