Biennale
Internationale
Design
Saint-Étienne
Human Cities - Smoties: creative works with small and remote places
Visits and conferences
Conference21 april - 23 april
Human Cities - SMOTIES : creative works with small and remote places is a four-year European project (2020 - 2024) supported by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme.
Human Cities is a multidisciplinary European network that was founded in 2006, and has evolved over the course of themes, contents, partners and leaders. Human Cities - SMOTIES is the continuation of the Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale project (2014-2018), for which the Cité du design was the lead partner and which examined the role of inhabitants in the co-creation of the contemporary city to improve the habitability of public spaces.
This new Human Cities - SMOTIES project is led by the Politecnico di Milano, who will examine, together with the ten European partners (including the Cité du design), the creativity in small and remote places. These places are depositories of material and immaterial culture at risk to be undervalued, not consolidtaed or handed down, and hence lost. Through a shared methodology that will ensure the involvement of local communities through co-creation, masterclasses and prototyping studios, these remote territories will benefit from the production of cultural and creative works in public spaces, carried out with the ten partners identified in this project as nodes of creativity. These are public institutions, design centres, creative agencies, national associations, research centres or university design departments, located in ten European cities:
As part of the 12th Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2022, we are pleased to welcome the 10 European partners of the Human Cities- SMOTIES network from 20 to 23 April 2022:
Milano – Italy: Politecnico di Milano, Design Department
Cieszyn – Poland: Zamek Cieszyn
Graz – Austria: FH Joanneum, University of Applied Sciences (FHJ)
Ljubljana – Slovenia: Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia (UIRS)
London – Uk: Clear Village Trustee Limited
Saint-Étienne – FRANCE: Cité du Design – Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design
Tallinn – Estonia: Estonian Association of Designers (EAD)
Ermoupoli – Greece: University of the Aegean (UoA), Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering
Funchal – Portugal: Universidade da Madeira (UMA), Art & Design Department
Reykjavik – Iceland: Alternance slf
The event is open to all free of charge upon registration. In french and english, please bring your headphones and smartphone for live translation.
Reservations
Programme
11:00 Meeting with Isabelle Daëron, designer in residence at the Chartreuse de Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez, walk on the Stones of the heavens trail (meeting point: Pl. des Portes, 42800 Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez)
14:30 Meeting with Emmanuelle Gaide from the Turbine Créative, a third place of the association of the Nouveaux Ateliers du Dorlay in Doizieux and visit of the exhibition "Entrelacs" resulting from the workshop with students of the Esadse (7rue Menut, 42740 La Terrasse sur Dorlay)
15:30 Visit to the House of Braids and Laces (MoulinPinte, 42740 La Terrasse sur Dorlay)
17:00 Round table with local elected representatives, designers, creative people and European partners (Salle du Foyer, rue de l'Abbé Chapuis 42740 La Terrasse sur Dorlay)
15:00 Human Cities-SMOTIES Travelling talk
Théâtre, Cité du design (3 rue Javelin Pagnon, 42000 Saint-Étienne)
Moderation by Josyane Franc, Ambassador of the Cité du design
15:00 Welcome by Isabelle Vérilhac, Director of International & Innovation at the Cité du design
15:05 Introduction by Marc Chassaubéné, President of the Cité du design
15:20 Presentation of the Human Cities-SMOTIES project by Davide Fassi, Coordinator of the SMOTIES project, Associate Professor, Design Department, Politecnico of Milan
15:30 John Thackara, philosopher and writer: Reconnecting urban and rural
16:00 ETC Collective: The Place of Possibilities
16:20 Questions & Answers
17:00 Break
17:20 Presentation of European best practiceseport by Matej Nikšič, UIRS
17:30 Four case studies selected by the Cité du design
Agora bench in Unieux and Frontage, revealing the greenery in Génilac by Sara de Gouy
Subjective mapping. Local people tell the story of the town of Dunières by Captain Ludd
Design advice for the renovation of commercial facades in Saint-Genest-Malifaux and Bourg-Argental by Typotopy
18:00 Presentation of the remote places identifiedby the 10 European partners: Milan (Italy), Reykjavik (Iceland), Ermopouli(Greece), Funchal (Portugal), Graz (Austria), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Tallinn(Estonia), Cieszyn (Poland), London (UK) and Saint-Étienne (France).
19:00 Conclusion
