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Arménie, formes vives

(Armenia, Vivid Forms)

Thursday 22 May 2025

A conversation between artists, historians, patrons of the arts and the curators of the exhibition En relief, créer en Arménie (In relief, creating in Armenia) looks at how creative activity in Armenia is responding to current economic, geopolitical, educational and social challenges.

 3.30pm - 5pm | Conversation*

Moderator: Fanny Robin, art critic, artistic director of the Bullukian Foundation

With Naïri Khatchadourian (curator and co-curator of the exhibition En relief, créer en Arménie), Jean-François Dingjian (designer and co-curator of the exhibition En relief, créer en Arménie), Vigen Galstyan (art historian specialising in the history of Armenian cultural modernity), Gayane Sofoyan (architect, designer), Davit Kochunts (artist, designer), Marie-Lou Papazian (founding director of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies)

*French/Armenian translation

5.30pm | Screening of the film* Si le vent tombe (1h40, 2020) in the presence of its director Nora Martirosyan

*French/Armenian translation

Design et industrie : les designers au cœur des révolutions industrielles

(Design and industry: designers at the heart of industrial revolutions)

Tuesday 3, Wednesday, Thursday 5 June 2025

Professional days open to all

What does the future hold for industry in terms of available resources, both material and human? Aware of the seriousness of the issues at stake, industries are transforming their production methods, with re-industrialisation and/or relocation as their leitmotiv. These changes are turning ecology into a question of economics, digital technology and AI into a question of know-how, localisation into a question of environment, and re-industrialisation into a question of industrial model.

Historically linked to industrial production, is design still a resource? What new relationship models are emerging between design and industry?

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 11am - 2pm | GO DESIGN - Business Meeting organised by the Saint-Étienne CCI delegation, official partner of the Biennial.
  
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• 14h - 14h30 | Introductory lecture - The contemporary industrial situation
• 14h30 - 15h45 | Round-table discussion - The environment as a resource, the challenges of localisation
  
  Introduction and moderation: Caroline Granier (economist, project manager at the Fabrique de l’industrie, author of the study Refaire de l’industrie un projet de territoire)
  
  With Emmanuel Gagnez (CEO of SAMMODE lighting fixtures), Jean-François Dingjian and Eloi Chafaï (designers Normal Studio), Florian Dach and Dimitri Zephir (dach&zephir, designers), Laetitia Le Maner (general delegate of the Club Gier Entreprise), ...
• 16h - 17h15 | Round-table - CSR as a resource for design ethics
  
  Moderated by Annabelle Bourrelier and Denis Rochefort, co-founders of ACDI, Association des designers intégrés (Association of Integrated Designers)
  
  With Julia Delrieu (Digital Responsibility and CSR referent at DIGITALLEAGUE), Olivier Lange (Managing Director of SEEB Automation), Denis Chazallet (Environment and CSR referent at the Saint-Étienne CCI Delegation), Anne Klepper (designer)
• 17h30 - 18h30 | Meeting of integrated designers, organised by the ACDI association
  
  With Pascal D’Amico (Brand Design Director – Decathlon), Guillaume Reiner (VP Industrial Design Europe - Schneider Electric), Jonathan Deloy (Art Director – TB Group)
  
  Register with ACDI : infos.acdi@gmail.com
  

Wednesday 4 June 2025

•  9.15am - 10.15am | Professional guided tour (1 hour, 25 places, registration required)
• 10.30am - 11am | Introductory lecture - Sophie Dars (architect and co-founder of the annual magazine Accattone)
• 11am - 12.30pm | Round table - Skills on the move: hybrid practices
  
  Moderated by Sophie Dars
  
  With Frédéric Peyrard (Managing Director - Doing), Guillaume Credoz (designer and founder of PIC - Post Industrial Crafts), Delphine Greco (Managing Director of the Fondation Ilyse pour la Culture Industrielle), Alexandre D’Orsetti (CEO of Sculptéo), Laurent Massaloux (designer and co-curator of the exhibition Ressource(s), présager demain) and Tom Garçon (designer)
•  14h-15h30 | Round-table - The designer as a resource, a method with conditions
  
  Introduction and moderation: Frédéric Beuvry (Senior Vice President, Industrial Design & Ergonomics, Schneider Electric)
  
  With Inga Sempé (designer), Benjamin Graindorge (designer), Damien Tronchon (head of the Rondino design office)
• 4pm | Choice of visits or workshop: guided tours of the Biennial exhibitions (1hr30, 25 places), immersive visit and live demonstration at the PIC labd’expo (1hr, 30 places) or La pensée qui fabrique workshop (1hr30, 20 places)

Thursday 5 June

• Morning session organised by the CCI, official partner of the Biennial Purchasing Forum: responsible purchasing meetings at the Saint-Étienne CCI Delegation
  
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• 12pm - 2pm | Designers & architects networking event organised by the Cité du design: discussions and meetings, in the press/partner area of the Cité du design (Platine building).
  
  Registration required at partenariatbiennale@citedudesign.com
• 2pm - 4pm | Round-table discussion - Industrial design: design in practice at Schneider Electric
  
  Moderator: Guillaume Reiner (VP Industrial Design Europe - Schneider Electric)
  
  With Pierre Garner (co-founder and associate director Elium Studio); Anthony Lebossé (co-founder and associate director 5.5 design); Annick Villeneuve (channel customer sales director Schneider Electric); Bruno Peccoud (design lab Principal Designer Schneider Electric)

Ressource(s) dans tous ses états

(Resource(s) in All Their States)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

From two points of view – quantitative (limitation, extinction, extension, exploitation... Who are they? How many are there?) and geographical (belonging, location. Where are they? Who do they belong to?) –, the observed state of resources calls into question the notion of territory and its re-qualification as a resource in the face of their predicted limitation or possible extinction.

From transition to disappearance, from hope to melancholy, Ressource(s), présager demain questions investment choices in the light of the scientific concepts and ideologies to which they refer.

11.30am - 12.30pm | Cross talk

Moderator: Sylvain Bourmeau (journalist and director of the online journal AOC)

With Philippe Bihouix (engineer, CEO of AREP, author with Vincent Perriot of the album Ressources, un défi pour l’humanité, Casterman 2024) and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (historian of science, technology and the environment, author of Sans transition : Une nouvelle histoire de l’énergie, Paris, Le Seuil 2024)

12.30 pm - 2 pm | Workshop - Frugal Pursuit: architects and designers faced with the ecological emergency

Moderated by Aliette Platiau, Romaric Quentin and Céline David, AREP

‘Frugal Pursuit’ invites you to playfully discover the repertoire of eco-construction solutions: bio-sourced materials, raw earth, reuse, etc. Two teams compete against each other to design a building with the lowest environmental impact. To win, the players have to come up with the best solutions while keeping to the budget and deadlines for their project!

The workshops are led by the AREP team, the post-carbon agency: www.arep.fr

14h - 15h30 | Two case studies - Resources: extraction, exploitation, use

Moderator: Jeanne Quéheillard

With the Grenoble CEA and its Y.SPOT laboratory (David Bihanic, Tiana Delhome, Nicolas Géraud, Bruno Truong) for the 1st case study, and Jacopo Rasmi, (lecturer in visual arts and Italian studies at the Université Jean-Monnet in Saint-Étienne) for the 2nd case study

3.45pm - 5.15pm | Round Table - Resources have a territory, territories have resources

Moderator: Jeanne Quéheillard

With Nicolas Verschaeve (designer, educational coordinator for the Territorial Design post-master’s programme, ENSAD PSL), Pablo Bras (designer, educational coordinator for the Territorial Design post-master’s programme, ENSAD PSL), Emmanuel Louisgrand (artist and garden designer), Romaric Quentin (head of the AREP design studio), Céline David (AREP design director), Léana Fiorito (biomethane development officer for GRDF in the Loire, Drôme and Ardèche regions) and Isabelle Daëron (designer, co-curator of the Ressource(s), présager demain exhibition).

5.30pm | Screening of the documentary film Tribunal sur le Congo (2017, 1h40) by Milo Rau

Un après-midi avec l’IA

(An Afternoon With AI)

Friday 20 June 2025 

The ‘magic’ of AI intelligence is opening up for use by everyone. Inevitable progress for some, new evils for others, it’s hard to give up on this technology, you just have to work with it. Getting to grips with it means understanding its capabilities, limitations and weaknesses. There is still a lot of educational work to be done. Information and training to live with AI and act with it are becoming a key issue.

Materials, the ‘stuff of invention’ for designers, are the subject of innovative research and are increasingly seen as common goods, in the same way as health and housing. Design is reasserting itself as social design. Cartography is one of the tools it uses to create representations that redefine what less is more.

Whether political or critical, design confronts its positions. The screening of a research project, an interview and a round-table discussion will explore, through materials, use, re-use and invention, and the mapping of resources, their economy and sharing, the conditions necessary for design to make resources a common good.

11.30 am - 12.30 pm | Screening of a workshop film, followed by a discussion between designer Erwan Bouroullec and students from the ECAL, École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne

12.30pm - 2pm | Frugal Pursuit: architects and designers facing up to the ecological emergency

Moderated by Solène Getti and Cécile Michel

‘Frugal Pursuit’ invites you to playfully discover the repertoire of eco-construction solutions: bio-sourced materials, raw earth, re-use, etc. Two teams compete to design a building with the lowest environmental impact. To win, the players have to come up with the best solutions while keeping to the budget and deadlines for their project!

The workshops are led by the AREP team, the post-carbon agency: www.arep.fr

Participants will be able to try out the game in the press/partner area of the Cité du design during lunchtime.

Registration required, places are limited (20 places)

 2pm - 2.45pm | Cross talk

Moderator: Jeanne Quéheillard

With Yves Citton (philosopher and essayist) and Sylvia Fredriksson (designer and researcher, co-curator of the exhibition Ressource(s), présager demain)

3pm - 5pm | Round table - Materials, inventories and cartographies

Moderator: Camille Bosqué (designer, teacher and author of Design pour un monde fini, lexique à l’usage de ceux et ceux qui veulent maintenir l’habitabilité du monde, Carnets Parallèles, 2024)

With Arthur Farre (engineer, designer) and Thibaud Klepper (designer, architect), SIGHT Studio; Amandine Guyot (marketing and communications director) and Yelen Atchou (senior UX/UI designer), WEBQAM; Benjamin Malatrait (managing director and co-founder of Ictyos); Grégoire Robida (architect-urban planner, AREP project manager) and Solène Getti (architect D.E., ENTPE building engineer, in charge of environmental and re-use studies at AREP); Alexandra Arènes (Terra forma, Gaiagraphie)  

Design and transition: a cross-disciplinary approach

22 May afternoon and 23 May morning

• Université Jean Monnet (UJM) - ARTS Institute
  
  Amphithéâtre L206
  Bâtiment Les Forges
  Campus Manufacture
  11 rue du Dr Rémy-Annino
  42000 Saint-Étienne
  
  Free admission with reservation

On the occasion of the T4EU week "Design in all its states", organized by the Jean Monnet University (UJM) and in resonance with the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2025, this scientific event highlights the diversity of approaches and collaborations in design developed within the UJM and the École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne.

This transdisciplinary initiative brings together researchers from different disciplines – arts, engineering, management sciences, law, information technology and computer science – to examine design in its multiple dimensions. The aim is to explore its digital, material and industrial development, the evolving challenges of intellectual property in the face of advances in computing, as well as its role as a driver of innovation for businesses. In addition, the debates will also give the floor to young researchers and creators who will question the roles of the designer, craftsman and artist through sensitive and inclusive approaches, anchored in the contemporary challenges of social, environmental and economic transitions.

Speakers
Scientific director Gwenaelle Bertrand, teacher-researcher (ECLLA laboratory); a dozen teachers-researchers working on design at the Jean Monnet University.

Study days in English, organised within the framework of the European Transform4Europe Alliance (Erasmus Plus) with the help of the Graduate ARTS and the support of the National Research Agency.

arts.univ-st-etienne.fr

Faire, encore

AD·Rec 2025 symposium

(Making, Still Making)

27 and 28 May 2025

• Ésad Saint-Étienne Auditorium

This symposium, organised as part of the AD·Rec 2025 conference, will address the meaning of "making" in the creative sphere, its conditions and its forms in life environments undergoing transformation.

Information and booking (in French)

Triumph, fall and rebirth: representations of the city of Detroit (Michigan) and their ideological, political and ethical subtexts

International symposium

From 11 to 13 June 2025

• Ésad Saint-Étienne Auditorium

This symposium organised by Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Étienne will look at the depictions of the city of Detroit in order to question their ideological, political and ethical subtexts from a resolutely diachronic and multi-disciplinary point of view.

In French and English

Provisional programme

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