Journal

Editorials

Éditorial n°9
Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz
The ninth issue of our magazine seems to question practice. What exactly is it about? - 2024/12
Éditorial n°8
Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz
What's the point of an e-zine editorial? To give color to the issue it opens? In our case, it's more a question of unity of tone for issue 8 of _Design, Arts, Médias_, as for all its predecessors. Rereading our magazine's editorials before writing this one, it's basically the critical spirit that, once again, drives our editorial line. But this critical spirit does not go without being propositional. Translated with DeepL.com (free version) - 2024/05

Thematic Issues

Design et abstractions
Directed by David Bihanic, Philippe Marin
This ninth issue focuses on the study of relationships between design and abstractions, in the context of its creative and inventive/innovative approaches (also tactical, strategic ones), as well as its methods and tools for both projection/anticipation and implementation. - 2025/06
Design et arts plastiques : points de convergence
Directed by Aurélie Michel
The history of the visual arts and design reveals both conjunctions and divergences within these two fields. Their objectives are certainly different, but they also share common questions that go beyond a simple opposition between utility and uselessness. This dossier will therefore provide an opportunity to explore the areas where design and the visual arts can engage in dialogue, creating fruitful cross-fertilizations between the methods and processes specific to each field. - 2024/11

Reviews

Nathalie Bruyère (dir.) Global Tools (1973-1975) – Éco-Design: Dé-projet & Low-Tech
Claire Azéma
L’ouvrage présente une recherche menée sous l’initiative de Nathalie Bruyère, enseignante à l’Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse. Cette recherche s’appuie sur la collecte d’archives et de témoignages (réalisée notamment via des entrevues en ligne). L’avant-propos est signé par Catherine Geel, tandis que le développement théorique de l’ouvrage est rédigé par Victor Petit, philosophe des techniques et enseignant à l’IUT de Troyes ainsi qu’à l’UTC de Compiègne. - 2025/06
Ellie Wyatt, PARALLAX : Conspiracy Theories Details and the Act of Looking Closely
Ambre Charpier
In her first book, artist-researcher Ellie Wyatt tackles the conceptual crisis between seeing, knowing and believing. This collection of contributions by various authors, essays by Ellie Wyatt and visual works invites us to examine the conditions of production and circulation of contemporary images. - 2024/05

Words of Authors

Le design et ses pratiques (volet 3). Une affaire de communs
Under the supervision of Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz
This new dossier contains around thirty interviews conducted with French and foreign designers. The objective of this survey is to identify how these professionals understand the commons, their encounters with this type of organization, etc., and their possible participation in a "critical commons" dedicated to design research. This fieldwork, conducted thanks to students from the Master 2 Design, Arts, Media (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), thus aims to test the hypotheses formulated within the research seminar "Towards a Critical Theory of Design." These interviews are preceded by a summary. - 2025/06
Cycle de conférences/rencontres avec des chercheurs (5)
Under the supervision of Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz
This file follows a cycle of conferences with researchers and professionals from design, the arts and the media. It brings together the podcasts and the reports of the eight sessions that took place at Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2024-2025 - 2025/06

Varia

Glass in contemporary sculpture
Andreja Prokopijevic
Cet article analyse l'utilisation du verre, le processus de fabrication du verre et ses perspectives dans l'art contemporain à travers des exemples d'expressions artistiques diverses et de différents médiums artistiques. Le verre et les techniques associées sont traditionnellement associés aux arts appliqués. Moins connues sont les pratiques artistiques contemporaines qui utilisent principalement le verre dans leur expression. L'objectif de cet article est de questionner ce matériau, ses qualités et son potentiel dans l'art contemporain, en particulier dans le domaine de la sculpture. Une autre question qui se pose est celle de savoir comment les caractéristiques du verre peuvent être interprétées différemment d'un point de vue sculptural, pictural ou d'installation. En conséquence, l'article examine la notion de contemporanéité et les valeurs dans l'art contemporain. - 2024/12
Fast publication : l’homogénéisation visuelle des templates web comme conséquence du prêt-à-publier
Emma Ramstein, Nolwenn Maudet
Why do web templates look so similar ? Studying the different actors involved in the standardization of templates, we show that templates are now less seen as starting points and more as *ready-to-publish* solutions. Template catalogs focus on the visual aspect of templates so that non-professionals can more easily relate to them. Stock images act as primary design elements and relegates layout and web design editing to mere customization. - 2024/12

Call for papers

Les matrices disciplinaires du design
Jérémie Elalouf
Design thinking, design management, design strategy, design innovation… Many practices today claim the term design, to the point that one might wonder what constitutes the common denominator of such a diverse collection. Doesn't such appropriation indicate that the ideas conveyed by the term design have become consensual, and that the discipline is undergoing an identity crisis? The challenge of this call for papers is that the notion of a disciplinary matrix, proposed by Thomas Kuhn in the afterword to his 1969 work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, can help us consider such issues. Indeed, it offers a methodological framework for reflecting on what might constitute the unity of the discipline, but also for diagnosing the causes of its fragmentation. - 2025/07
Design et abstractions
David Bihanic, Philippe Marin
For this ninth issue, the online scientific journal Design, Arts, Médias is launching a call for contributions on the study of relationships between design and abstractions, in the context of its creative and inventive/innovative approaches (also tactical, strategic ones), as well as its methods and tools for both projection/anticipation and implementation. - 2024/12