Initiated by the sectors Design Textile & Matière and Design Objet of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris, France), this edition of the cycle "façonner l'avenir" (forging the future) looks at how the fields of design and science can work together towards an ecologically minded urbanity. Alternating thinkers and actors from the realms of science, economics, politics, culture and creativity, the cycle unfolds in two main chapters.

Firstly, what do we understand by ‘an ecological practice’? What are its mental, social, ethical, economical and political operating modes, and conditions? Which urgent issues must it address today to be able to act meaningfully tomorrow?

 

Secondly, which current research projects – conducted in the arts, design, or sciences – have the potential to re-imagine an ecology that is in line with urban dynamics? What kinds of know-how do these projects contain? And how to let these different types of know-how build on one another in a constructive manner?

ECOLOGY IN THE CITY: EXPLORING TOMORROW'S TACTICS AND TOOLS

ALASTAIR FUAD-LUKE

 

design facilitator, educator, writer & activist

 

Fictions, frictions and functions : Design

as capability, adaptability and transition

 

January 21, 2015

STEPHANE-HICHAM AFEISSA

 

philosophe

 

La fin du monde et de l’humanité. Essai de généalogie du discours écologique.

 

January 7, 2015

JONATHAN CHAPMAN

 

Professor of Sustainable design

 

Meaningful stuff: Designing sustainable material experiences

 

February 4, 2015

MARIE-SARAH ADENIS

 

designer biologiste

 

EMILE DE VISSCHER

 

Ingénieur designer

 

Polyfloss Factory versus Grow your Ink : Outils et matériaux de demain

 

March 4, 2015

TAL EREZ

 

Designer and Researcher

 

Plastic: Promises of a homemade future

 

March 11, 2015

ARNE HENDRIKS

 

Artist & Researcher

 

STEPHANE RENESSON

 

Anthropologue

 

The Incredible Shrinking Man Meets: Becoming  Beetle

 

February 11, 2015

KATE GOLDSWORTHY

 

Designer & Researcher

 

Designing for a circular fashion economy:

technology, collaboration and creativity

 

April 1, 2015

ANGELA MORELLI

 

information designer

 

Data stories

 

March 25, 2015

DESIS PHILOSOPHY
TALK

 

The art of living, together. Emerging aesthetics for sustainable and resilient ways of living

 

April 8, 2015

Amphithéâtre Rodin

 

École nationale supérieure

des Arts Décoratifs

 

31 rue d'Ulm - 75005 Paris

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