faire encore
ad•rec 2025
(Making, Still making)
La Platine — Cité du design (Auditorium)
Ésad Saint-Étienne Auditorium
The Art Design Recherche (AD•Rec) conference 2025 will be a feature of the Biennale with a symposium and an exhibition. The exhibition invites teacher-researchers at French or foreign art and design schools to share plastic proposals resulting from their investigations. It questions the way the creative sector is doing things today in terms of transitions.
The Faire,
encore / Making, Still Making exhibition presents the some of the material
results of current research being done by art and design schools in and with
research laboratories. A symposium on 27 and 28 May 2025 will complete the
demonstration. Together the two complementary components – exhibition and
discussion of the research – form the 2025 edition of the annual Art Design
Research (AD•REC) conference supported by the French Ministry of Culture. The
event testifies to the vitality and variety of creative research and its
importance within the schools and beyond their walls.
Research
gives students experience of investigation, problematisation and critical
reflection and feedback. It is indicative of the attention paid to
environments, to dense descriptions of landscapes, to exploration of the traces
left by industry. Other concerns include the processes of participation,
cooperation and reflection on ways of working together and making commons. We
find just as much speculative or critical work permeated by a concern for
profound social issues as we do research on materials and their uses in the
face of ecological challenges. The appetite for making persists even while its
legitimacy is being contested, which shows precisely why it is essential to
rethink design and production, which are profoundly controlled by creators.
Some of the work featured in the exhibition is in fact the product of
interdisciplinary scientific cooperation, revealing the active presence of
creative people in every area of the re-invention of the way we live, in
engineering, in collective learning.
Making, Still Making implies a need to make trade-offs between the
urgent need to pare things back and to protect and the appetite for beautiful,
significant objects. The research being done in the schools has immediate
impacts on the teaching that takes place there and is seeking answers to the
anxiety of students living in environments now feeling the effects of
geopolitical realities and climate injustice. Thanks to the research conducted
by their teaching staff, artists, designers and researchers, they are preparing
as yet unknown ways of making, doing, living and being, in and through all
media and based on experiments with doing and making things differently, in
different places, and making do – with what we have, with whomever we want, and
with others.
Curators
Sophie Pène, Rodolphe Dogniaux and Cléa Di Fabio
The exhibition is accompanied by a symposium on 27 and 28 May 2025.
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Academic committee
Armand Behard (ENSCI, Paris), Gwenaëlle Bertrand (UJM, Saint-Étienne), Nicolas Bourriaud (Commissaire d’exposition, auteur, Les Radicants), Claire Brunet (ENS, Paris-Saclay), Indiana Collet Barquero (Énsad, Limoges), Rodolphe Dogniaux (Ésadse, Saint-Étienne), Davide Fornari (ECAL, Lausanne), Sylvia Fredriksson (Ésad, Orléans), Sylvain Gouraud (ÉsadHar, Le Havre), Émilie Perotto (Ésadse, Saint-Étienne), Océane Ragoucy (ENSA, Paris-Malaquais), Noémie Sauve (Ésad TALM, Le Mans), Emmanuel Tibloux (ENSAD, Paris), Antonella Tufano (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1), Pierre Lévy (CNAM, Paris), Géraldine Longueville (ÉESI, Poitiers)
Curators
Exhibition design
Exhibition production
Technical implementation
Graphic design
Monitoring Committee
(French Ministry of Culture)
Steering Committee
Rodolphe Dogniaux, Sophie Pène and Cléa Di Fabio
Rodolphe Dogniaux with Maxence Laubier
Cité du design
Cité du design
Pauline Aignel and Gabriela Simon-Flores
Solène Bellanger, Camille Herfray, Estelle Pagès and Ubavka Zaric
Éric Jourdan (Managing Director EPCC Cité du design-Ésad Saint-Étienne) and the members of the Research Council (Rodolphe Dogniaux, Simone Fehlinger, Karim Ghaddab, David-Olivier Lartigaud, Ernesto Oroza, Jean-Claude Paillasson) of the GRAD Esadse (Arts and Design Research Group) – Design & Creation Research Unit, Ésad Saint-Étienne).
Schools and universities exhibited
École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris Cergy, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, École supérieure d’art et design du Havre Rouen, École supérieure d’art et design de Limoges, École supérieure d’art et design d’Orléans, École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne, École supérieure d’art et design TALM-Le Mans, École supérieure d’art et design de Valenciennes, Haute École d’Arts et de Design de Genève, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse, Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon, Institut de technologie et d’études supérieures de Monterrey, Lycée Jacques Prévert Boulogne, Université de Nîmes, Université Paris Sciences & Lettres, Université de Pavia, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Tongji University
Artists and designers exhibited
Lou Ramage / Vietnam Design Research Studio (VDRS) / Wilfried Becret / Dave Hawey / Boris du Boullay, Jonah Marrs and the students from DSAA Design graphique et narration multimédia in Boulogne (Ewan Aubert, Anna-Sikina Baillon, Ellébore Blanchet, Clara Boussard, Héloïse Chevalier, Zoé Cossais-Bourgeois, Camille Ferraris, Emma Fusillier, Julie He Zheng, Manon Hoarau, Lauryne Journaud, Chloé Morin, Lou Ong, Julie Osti-Rousseau, Nathan Pipeaux and Marion Villette) / Lucile Haute and the students from Licence Design at Nîmes Université (Coline Bonhoure, Lilou Cassin, Emilie Chamand, Sara Omar El Alami, Camille Nicolas, Malwina Jaworska, Junon Marpeau, Juliette Podgorski, Elisabeth Lamour, Mila Chabernaud, Selma Debout, Nina Seifritz, Anna Chareun, Jade Biscara, O.Ratsarambolaliana, Zineb Ammar, Meriem Krallaf and Mona Assayag) / Yann Annicchiarico, Jérôme Girard, Anna Holveck, Maxime Juin, Michala Julínyová, Sophie Lamm, Jules Maillot, Jennifer Lauro Mariani, Frédéric Mathevet, Philippe Rousseau, Bernhard Rüdiger, Marion Roche, Adrien Van Melle and Lucas Zambon / Eugénie Zuccarelli / Caroline Zahnd, Emmanuel Hugnot, Olivier Bouton, Sylvia Fredriksson and the students from DSRD and from post-graduate research at Esad Orléans (Amélie Samson, Anne-Laure Fréant, Antoine Blouin, Batiste Wavrant, Etienne Mosnier, Eva Vedel, Gabriel Martinez, Léa Fernandes, Luiz Gustavo Machado de Carvalho, Manon Souchet) / Emanuele Giorgi, Minqing Ni, Tiziano Cattaneo, Samantha Winter with Alfredo Mauricio Flores Herrera, Emiliano Chavez, Clara Tarango, Virginia del Socorro Aceves Tarango, María Elena Martínez Tapia, Rafael Camilo Lozoya Gamez, Simone Lucatello / Noémie Sauve and the students in 2nd year of Art and Design at Esad TALM Le Mans (Maëlle Ledauphin, Anaïs Eloi, Sandrine Fix, Bryan Le, Louise Guillaud-Beaudry et al.) / Philippe Terrier-Hermann and the students from the research programme « Fixer l’archipel » at Isba Besançon (Mathilde Gros, Mathilde Noir, Victoria et Tanjim Chowdhury) / Atelier Santos Lemarchand, Hélène Coussedière, Laetitia Giorgino, Hanika Perez and the students from 4th and 5th years in Design at isdaT Toulouse (Pablo Barrientos, Emma Cayre, Carla Chatellard, Chun Deng, Hugo Lhussa, Lola Luc-Taliercio, Adria Soubias Rabassa and Tom-Loup Tisseur) / Virginie Bobin, Licia Demuro and the students from Esadhar Rouen (Alice Feuillère, Emma Maignan et Shenxi Song) / Post-master Azimuts (Pauline Aignel and Gabriela Simon Flores) / GRAD Esadse Labo d’objet (Kiti Kurarova) / GRAD Esadse Random(Lab) (Damien Baïs, David-Olivier Lartigaud and François Brument), Sonia Laugier, Kévin Ardito / GRAD Esadse Laboratoire IRD / GRAD Esadse laboratoire Spacetelling (Ernesto Oroza and Émilie Perrotto), Thibault Le Page, Elouan Didier, Dimitri Massacrier, Jean-Pierre Berthollet / GRAD Esadse, Laboratoire d’Expérimentation des Modernités (LEM) (Loïc Bonche and Association Ruka.st) / Daniel Jablonski / Léa Barbier, Sébastien Biniek, Laurence Duca, Elizabeth Hale, Jean-Baptiste Talma and the students from Ésad Valenciennes / Indiana Collet Barquero, Fabrice Cotinat, Jessie Derogy, Serge Payen, the students from l’Atelier de Recherche et Création « Nouvelles Gestualités » at Ensad Limoges.
Acknowledgments
The AD·Rec 2025 team would like to thank the researchers who have agreed to join the members of the Scientific Council and GRAD Esadse, as part of the Evaluation Committee : Yann Aucompte, Armand Behar, Céline Caumon, Anne-Cécile Cochet, Jérémie Elalouf, Maxime Favard, Estelle Guerry, Florian Harmand, Delphine Hyvrier, Jacopo Rasmi, Émeline Roy, Valentin Sanitas, Clémence Seurat, Marie Tesson, and the 4th and 5th year object design students at Esad Saint-Étienne, for their contribution to the scenography (mostly Lucas Carlot, Augustin Collet, Laura Fantin, Nina Foncel, Camille Marek, Mateo Rouvier et Eve Gourdin Wagner).
The AD·Rec 2025 team extends its gratitude to the staff of the Esadse-Cité du design in Saint-Étienne, the reception staff, maintenance technicians, security personnel, mediators, and all those who will contribute to sharing this exhibition with the public.
Sophie Pène
Emeritus professor of information and
communication sciences at the University
of Paris Cité, Sophie Pène specialises in the analysis of digital
practices and studies collective forms of innovation. With Benjamin
Graindorge she curated the Le Monde sinon rien exhibition at the
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2022.
Rodolphe Dogniaux
A designer trained at ENSCI
– Les Ateliers and ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, Rodolphe Dogniaux has been
developing his work as a designer-researcher since 2013. He is the
creator of the Design Matin blog. At Ésad Saint-Étienne, he ran
the postgraduate Design and Research course, is a member of the Object
Lab, and teaches on and coordinates the Object Design masters’ course.
Cléa Di Fabio
A designer graduated from Ésad TALM-Angers in 2016, Cléa Di Fabio became involved in research and creation as soon as she entered the post-master’s research programme at Ésad Saint-Étienne. She is interested in ways of innovating by abandoning techniques developed by agricultural professionals.
Her work has been exhibited at the Biennale Internationale Design Saint֤-Étienne, at the CID le Grand-Hornu, at the Biennale de l’Image Possible, and as a farm guest at the Bérard farm. In 2024-2025, she took part in the PhD Forum at HEAD Geneva, with the aim of enrolling on a doctoral course.
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