ressource(s)
présager demain
Resource(s), foreshadowing the future. Immersed in an era where things feel like they are shifting, an era marked by the depletion and impending exhaustion of certain resources, by the now palpable reality of climate change and growing doubts about some of our modern certainties, designers feel "unsettled", and that is leading them to question what they do and how they do it.
General curator
Laurence Salmon
Co-curators
Frédéric Beuvry, Isabelle Daëron, Sylvia Fredriksson, Marlène Huissoud, Anna Saint Pierre, Laurent Massaloux, Étienne Mineur, Philippe Rahm, natacha.sacha
Scenographer
Joachim Jirou-Najou
The Ressource(s), présager demain exhibition carries the theme of this 13th edition of the Biennale Internationale Design de Saint-Étienne. It has been designed as a choral exhibition around the central figure of the designer. It gives a platform to nine designers invited to curate a section of the exhibition so that each one of them can, through their selection, put across their point of view.
Nine sections, like so many chapters on the subject of resources – Déjà-là, Terres promises, Le devenir industriel, Minimum / Maximum, En mode hybride, Créer avec l’IA, Le design des communs, Design climatique, Les autres vivants – which identify and question the means of action that design draws on in the face of a reassessment of the methods of production and consumption in world in ecological debt.
The multiplicity of the projects brought together by the designers-curators, means that this exhibition becomes a "deposit of ideas and projects". Designer Joachim Jirou-Najou’s scenography provides consistency between the visitor path and the programming, while highlighting the projects and positions.
(Designing with AI)
Co-curator Étienne Mineur
Co-curator Anna Saint Pierre
hybride(In Hybrid Mode)
Co-curator Laurent Massaloux
industriel
(The future of industry)
Co-curator Frédéric Beuvry
vivants(Other Living Worlds)
Co-curator Marlène Huissoud
des communs
(Commons Design)
Co-curator Sylvia Fredriksson
climatique(Climatic Design)
Co-curator Philippe Rahm
promises
(Promised Lands)
Co-curator Isabelle Daëron
Laurence Salmon
Scientific Director of the Biennale, general curator of the themed exhibition Ressource(s), présager demain
Ressource(s), présager demain
"A resource is a deposit to
be exploited. This strong
idea from the 19th century resonates with Saint-Étienne’s manufacturing history. Today, the extractive logic is being called into question. On the other hand, the notion of
local resources, specific to a
"territory" is being given more value. The polysemantic nature of the word resource allows it to be widely appropriated. It is rich in meaning. Everything can be a resource, including intellectual and cultural outputs. Human capital is obviously a resource
(know-how, experience, etc.)."
Le design,
moteur du changement
"This 13th edition intends to show, to demonstrate that design is a resource: it has
a central place in a world of changes and mutations. Given the environmental challenges we are confronted with, the need to re-assess the methods of production and consumption of the developed world. The designer is resourceful: they are able, thanks to their creativity, project-oriented culture, their management of constraints, their responsible approach, to design new worlds, to envisage improvements or adaptations that take into account society’s requirements and issues.
What resources are designers working with today to prepare tomorrow? When we talk about resources, we are talking about means (of action), what we need to deal with a difficult situation, like the multifactorial crisis we are currently going though. This Biennale’s flagship themed exhibition of this gives nine designers, male and female, of all ages and backgrounds, a platform from which to explore and express their positions on a range of identified resources."
Answering today’s questions
"The theme Ressource(s), présager demain (Resource(s), foreshadowing the future), takes account of the planet’s limits. What can we do in a world limited and impacted by human activities in the Anthropocene? It is half a century since we entered this era when human activities are disrupting the climate and ecosystem. The difficulty is to manage to project into such a future without sinking into pessimism and the fear of collapse.
The designers are not futurologists or seers.
Thus, the term présager, which may be translated as predict or foresee as well as foreshadow, implies that we must tread carefully. The question is not whether change will happen, but how we will cope with it. We are going to see paradigm shifts in the way we produce and consume, and therefore design, in a world where (natural) resources are limited, which obliges us to think things through and remain reasonable.
The Biennale is an event that sketches out avenues so that we get our bearings in the face of the major challenges of our time."
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