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

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

Combined with the recent societal orientations of museum institutions, the ecological transition is driving museums' aspirations towards a new paradigm where the public’s place is growing. An inventive cultural mediation, in the context of the contemporary art museum, can question the current institutional hierarchy and establish a less consumeristic relationship between artists, works and audiences, and thus defend the looks as an essential part of art. - 2024/12

New materialism, as conceived by philosophers Rosi Braidotti and Manuel de Landa, are opening the notion of matter to all networks and systems. They thus offer a new interpretation of the processes involved in the design and appropriation of objects. Questioning new materialism through examples of tableware from the Revol porcelain factory highlights the diversity and expansion of these new interpretations. - 2024/12

This article aims to analyze the representations of the medium used in graphic design circles with History of idea and the philosophy of techniques. Here we choose four significant moments for the practice of design: medium-controlled-by-science, material-essence-medium, normative-network-medium, expressive-medium. History and philosophy can restore the major societal issues at work behind the descriptions of technology that we have inherited. This short overview of definitions allows us to situate the transformations and circulations of our representations of the medium: they are produced by the literate class of the society, they do give a certain turnaround to our perceptions. - 2024/05

Following residencies in the polar regions, Arctic Music, a 5.1 immersive sound installation, is created. During the post-production, the question arises of how best to conceive the experience of the public within such an apparatus. Yet spatialization enables three dimensions of sound space to be deployed: aesthetic, kinaesthetic, and political. It thus offers a singular experience, potentially opening up the audience to an ecological awareness. - 2023/11

This article presents the first steps in a design research-project aimed at conceiving the clothing object as part of the larger scale of the habitat. Through its proximity to the wearer's body, clothing accompanies his or her movements, taking the form of a back and forth between the home and the surrounding world. To reopen the archetypal garment, we'll study it from the angle of the semiotic established by Anne Beyaert-Geslin in Sémiotique du design, and will complete it with interviews conducted with designers and artists about project practice and innovation. - 2023/11

Thinking of design in terms of resonance, in the sense of Hartmut Rosa, allows us to embrace a non-instrumental conception of the project process. A number of contemporary practices in the field of design involve a decentering movement that resonance requires as a condition of possibility. These decentered practices strive to initiate a different relationship with the world and the otherness that inhabits it, a non-alienated relationship that outlines the contours of an alternative anthropology. The observation and analysis of this decentering, which operates from different perspectives (de-egocentric, de-ethnocentric, de-anthropocentric), contribute to the development of a critical theory of design. - 2023/06

In this article, the aim is to observe and understand the role of form in the processes of exhibiting and promoting archives through the following question: "Does exhibiting archives allow us to constitute and transmit memories? Thus, the communication of archives is built around documents with a complex status necessarily linked to memory. However, the way in which this transmission is formulated plays a central role in the way in which the archives are approached and therefore their memorial content. This article is therefore structured around formal analyses of three models of archival exhibition for the general public: the museum exhibition, the digital exhibition and the publication. - 2024/12

The aim of this article is to reflect on the role of design in the preservation of cultures, in particular by answering the following question : is design a tool for the resistance of cultural identities? Beyond the idea that design is responsible for the crisis of cultural identities, we will see that designers and museum institutions try to respond to this crisis in several ways : first by choosing distance and neutrality, then by taking sides and putting forward a radical approach in the presentation of culture. - 2024/12

Nowadays, virtual clothes are brand-new objects in the fashion world. The purpose is to surpass the euphoria generated by the adjective virtual and novelty effect. To define virtual clothing's essence, this article proposes a return to reality through real clothes, costumes and dressing-up clothes ; an overview of social networks, platforms where virtual garments are dedicated ; a positioning regarding the history of recreational photography. Among the capture of identity, exposure, masquerade and role-play, this article demonstrates that virtual clothing is in line with the recreational principles of photography. - 2022/12

Woven reproductions of paintings, productions of the textile industry between the french cities of Lyon and Saint-Étienne, are popularized in the 19^th century. Contextual pictures, from and for a time whose preoccupations might seem distant from us today, they yet immediately resemble classical painting, print, photography and digital imagery. By confronting the fine arts and programming, these images refuse any hasty categorization. Their existence raises the issue of technical reproduction: is the painting lost in its weaving? Is it kept in its multiplication? - 2022/12

On the 15th, 16th and 17th of July 2021, the Preuve par 7 organised a Summer University in parallel with the Bellastock festival. Looking for an alternative way to generate collective knowledge from certain practices of building the City, the ambition was to propose an alternative form of sharing experiences and knowledge. Based on the data collection systems set up by three doctoral students associated with the EFF&T Chair, we will offer a critical review of the perspectives outlined during these three days. - 2022/04

The article presents an experience of survey within the framework of a sensitive project around the representation by pictograms of the cultural identities of French Guiana, real pluriversial imaginaries. - 2022/04

This article attempts to observe and identify the place(s) of the story in the exhibition in order to answer the following question: can the scenographed place of the exhibition fulfil the role of a place of transmission ? - 2021/12

In this research, we need to understand the impact of the “kitsch” in the creation of luxury objects. This industry faces a growing demand, induced by the need to get out from a painful life through some objects that’s bring an extract soul. Therefore, it is complex to stay creative in a society in perpetual motion. By reviving the past and crating pastiches, the kitsch revealed himself as the perfect creative vector for luxury brands. - 2021/11

Throughout history, human societies have had to face deal with natural disasters that unpredictably disrupted their social and cultural balance. Human and financial losses due to natural disasters are becoming ever greater, questioning whether current risk management policies are up to addressing the various issues involved. The present study focused on the specific issue of flash floods in the south of France and the means of development of local inhabitants’ capabilities through social design and a fresh approach to risk communication. - 2021/11

This article deals with sensitive and narrative mapping as collaborative process between asylum seekers and inhabitants sharing a same territory and initiated by a designer-researcher. - 2021/11

The exhibition has always raised the question of visibility, but it now does so in a context of widespread exposure. Therefore, if the "why" and the "where" to exhibit are debated, we are interested, within the society of the spectacle, more particularly in the question of its "how". This article therefore questions our current means of exposure. - 2021/11

Based on a global health crisis that has led to inward isolation, this article questions the gaps in meaning brought to the home. - 2021/11

In this article, the aim is to understand how the spatial imaginary fits between specialists and the public, with whom it has a special relationship due to the functioning of space agencies on a public background. We will see how it is used to communicate or educate, but does not seem to be reinvested in the very design of manned space flight. - 2020/12

This article examines how dormant territories can inspire an ecological revolution to the designer through the intersecting practices of design and anthropology. - 2020/12

Originally born out of a need for freedom and emancipation and used to differentiate themselves, trends today are considered to homogenize. In order to understand where this change in relationship comes from, it is a question of immersing oneself in the vast and complex mechanisms of the appearance and the diffusion of the trends. Are trends an object of creative formatting ? - 2020/12

Train stations are nowadays becoming a central space in our cities, and a central space in our lives too. The flows of users experience it on a daily basis, we even have a french expression for it : it’s named « train-train » (« train » being the same word in english). The train, in both languages, represents speed, progress, adventure and other symbols. However, our expression echoes to a recurrence, something boring, some kind of deficiency in the daily experience, an attention which prevents the flows that pass through the station every day from getting through. Should the flows define the identity of the train stations ? - 2020/12

This article goes back to *Fixer le flux, de l'écran au cadre*, a Master’s thesis specialized in « Design, Arts, Médias ». Through the analysis of works using the computer and the web as creative tools, this work explores the new forms and methods that these practices invent in the field of the moving image. - 2020/12

Since the birth of design, we have used many words to describe designers such as technicians, coordinators or mediators. This article examines the figure of today’s designer through the subject of humans and synanthropic animals coexistence. Our analysis is based on Lyon and various projects existing in the city. This investigation will lead us to a deeper understanding of the place and the role of designers in complex issues. - 2020/12

This paper highlights the main directions of a master’s dissertation dealing with “original” printmaking in the XX^th century, when it becomes an authentic art instead of a copying technique. - 2020/12