NDesign+1: Multitude & Regard(6)

Exhibition-IN

Curator
Captain Ludd
Atelier Regards
Site
Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts
15 rue Henri Gonnard
42000 Saint-Étienne
Date
From 12/03/2015
To 12/04/2015
Hours
Every day
from 10am to 7pm
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NDesign+1: Multitude & Regard(6)

The purpose of Ndesign+1 is to bring together the amateur public and the event's organisers to share a convivial moment demystifying the mechanisms of production.
Made up of four object, space and graphic designers, the Captain Ludd group has opened its workshops in the heart of Le Crêt de Roch. This place centralises all the group's production activities as well as providing support for projects open to the public. As for the Regard (6) collective created by seven designers and graphic designers, for the Biennial it is offering a series of workshops tracing the sequence of steps in the artisanal production of objects in small series. At the same time, each of the members is pursuing their own career as an independent designer. No humanist future without public know-how: this orientation constitutes the first component of NDesign as addressed by the Captain Ludd group and various contributors united in their adherence to the social construction of the project, or an exhibition covering a number of sensitive initiatives to redefine a design that has been drained of its lifeblood, as well as initiation workshops at the Atelier du Marquee, rue Roger Salengro, Saint-Étienne. The objective of the exhibition at La Serre in the former Ecole des Beaux- Arts is to create a living, interactive space based on three distinctive areas, with a series of participatory workshops open to the public where each visitor will be able to design and make an object that he will then take home with him, and two exhibitions: one displaying objects made by members of the collective in these same workshops and the other showing pieces that illustrate their personal practice. Thanks to NDesign+1, the Captain Ludd and Atelier Regard groups are attempting to drag the sometimes perplex visitor out of his passivity by considering him more as an enlightened practitioner than as a subjugated user. Beauty in joint action and sharing - popular or ancestral aesthetics - a tribute to Utopies Réalisables by Yona Friedman.

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