futuribles

From 22 May to 7 July

At the origin of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial, there was the school, the impetus of student initiatives and an abundant collective energy that brought people together rather than dividing them. Today, the ppdesigner collective is returning to this common source that unites them as former students of Ésad Saint-Étienne. They are proud to be highlighting the influences and variety of approaches that have emerged from the school, and the Futuribles exhibition will be set up in five showcases on the Place Jean-Jaurès.

Over the course of a few weeks, designers and artists who may never have crossed paths before will see their objects and work in dialogue with each other in these dioramas.

Futuribles does not aim to provide an exhaustive overview of the designers and artists who have emerged from the school, but rather to offer a glimpse of possible trajectories.

Audio interviews present artists and designers whose work goes beyond the framework of the containers - in terms of its format, its theoretical nature or the context in which it was produced. They can be accessed on the ppdesigner.fr. website.

These installations will offer a glimpse of the many possible paths after Ésad Saint-Étienne.

Curators
Collectif Presque pas designer
@_ppdesigner_

Guest artists and designers

Eric Jourdan (1987)
Patrick de Glo de Besses (1997)
Studio Rémi Bouhaniche (2009)
Jean-Baptiste Durand (2011)
Cluzel / Pluchon (2011)
Anaïs Borie (2014)
Thibaut Lipski (2015)
Studio Quiproquo (2016)
Audrey Perzo (2016)
Thomas Larbin (2018)
Gregory Granados (2018)
Julia Debord-Dany (2019)
Dorian Felgines (2019)
Atelier Gold-Dalg (2019)
Clémentine Post (2019)
Atelier Ilané (2019)
Alexis Guidet (2020)
Atelier Zerma (2020)
Victor Cadoret (2021)
Very Good Design (2022)
Emma Faury—Graziani (2022)
Félix Fritz (2022)
Perrine Kamoun (2022)
Arthur Benyaya (2022)
Claire Vauquois (2022)
Madé Mathieu (2022)
Jovien Panné (2023)
Simon Henry (2023)
Louis Chevalier (2024)
Mathias Padlewski (2025)

Interviewed designers

Nathalie Arnould (1989)
Studio Rémi Bouhaniche (2009)
Gabriel Fontana (2015)
Foghar Studio (2017)
Mathilde Reynaud (2019)
Juliette Laroche (2022)
Cécile Poulat (2024)
Jessica Perez (2025)