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For six weeks, weekly events exploring the Biennale theme in depth with talks, round tables, symposiums and workshops. These are aimed at a wide audience, everyone from the specialist to the amateur, the first-time visitor to the professional – designer, industry representative, craftsperson – and they deal with design as a resource for different fields, which are in turn resources for design and designers.
A programme proposed by Jeanne Quéheillard, design critic
Arménie, formes vives
(Armenia, Vivid Forms)
Thursday 22 May 2025
Thursday 22 May 2025 Versed in a culture handed down from generation to generation even while facing global problems, the new generation of Armenian creatives (cinema, fashion, graphic design, architecture, design, etc.) is linking traditional arts and know-how to contemporary arts and technologies A conversation between artists, historians, patrons and the curators of the En relief, créer en Arménie exhibition on the modes of action at work in the creative world in Armenian in the face of today’s economic, geopolitical, educational and social issues.
Faire, encore - (Making, Still Making) – AD·Rec 2025 symposium
27 and 28 May 2025
This symposium, organised as part of the AD·Rec 2025 conference, will address the meaning of "making" in the creative sphere, its conditions and its forms in life environments undergoing transformation.
Design et industrie, la révolution permanente
(Design and Industry, the Permanent Revolution)
Tuesday 3, Wednesday, Thursday 5 June 2025
Professional days
Faced with today’s environmental and economic challenges, and well aware of their seriousness, many industrial companies are making changes to their production methods. With talks and workshops led by experts, economists, engineers, designers and industrial players bearing witness to the urgency of the situation, even while this remains an exhilarating human adventure, this event will bring together companies, in-house and independent designers and theorists/researchers. There will also be a festive evening for the Biennale’s partners and the participants in the professional days.
Tuesday 3 June 2025
General conference
Workshop 1 - The environment as a resource, issues around location (material, human, technological).
Workshop 2 - Corporate social responsibility (CSR), a factor in a new dynamic and an indicator for an ethics of industrial design.
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Workshop 3 - Know-how in flux: hybrid practices.
Workshop 4 - The designer as a resource, a method subject to conditions.
Triomphe, chute et renaissance
(Triumph, Fall and Rebirth) – International symposium
From 11 to 13 June 2025
This symposium will look at the depictions of the city of Detroit in order to question their ideological, political and ethical subtexts from a resolutely diachronic and multi-disciplinary point of view.
Jean Monnet University and Cité du design
In French and English
Ressource(s) dans tous ses états
(Resource(s) in All Their States)
Tuesday 17 June 2025
The possession, exploitation, use and consumption of so-called "natural" resources are linked to vital human needs (food, shelter, care, communication) Starting from two points of view – quantitative and geographic – the current state of the resources calls into, question the notion of territory and it requalification as a resource. This event proposes a talk with an inventory of the situation, a case study (lithium) lithium and a round table session followed by a documentary film.
Un après-midi avec l’IA
(An Afternoon With AI)
Friday 20 June 2025
Inescapable progress for some, a new evil for other - but AI can be used by all. Its domestication means it is necessary to be aware of its limits and weaknesses. This event is for professionals and amateurs and will take place in two parts.
1 - Workshop
"With AI, what shall I make?"
Led by the Cité du design’s facilitation service, this workshop will allow
junior and senior high school pupils
to appropriate AI technology while teaching them to reflect critically on it.
2 - Un après-midi avec l’IA (An Afternoon With AI)
"With AI, what will change?"
A talk for young people: with an expert guest speaker, high school students will be able to report on their experiences in workshops. A talk for the initiated: companies, researchers, practitioners and theorists will exchange views and share their interests and doubts.
Le design face à ses archives, le design face à ses récits
(Design and Its Archives, Design and Its Stories)
Tuesday 24 June 2025
Resources for design, archives can be used to reactivate your history, reinvigorate your current activities and recognise your heritage. With an expert guest speaker, this study day is for specialists, practitioners and theorists, curators, archivists, collectors and designers.
Round table 1: What kind of thing can be archives for design? What to keep? To tell what story?
Round table 2: Archives for design: where are they? How are they stored?
Ressources en partage. Une nouvelle équation du « moins est plus »
(Shared Resources. A New "less is more" Equation)
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Now that resources and technologies, relations between humans and non-humans are addressed based on a "symbiotic" environmental model, new economies are explored. The materials which are the "material of invention" for designers are the subject of innovative research, either because their use is controlled or they are new and come from the living world. They are more and more likely to be considered as common goods in the same way as health and habitats. The event will include a slideshow presenting a research project, a talk and a round table session addressing the issues around materials, use and reuse, resource mapping, saving and sharing, and the conditions necessary for design to make resources a common good.
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