French/​American online design schools work­shop

The French/​American online design schools work­shop invi­ted stu­dents from both sides of the Atlan­tic to work toge­ther in res­ponse to the world­wide pan­de­mic crisis.
Orga­ni­zed by Wan­ted­De­sign and co-led by ENSAD and SVA, the col­la­bo­ra­tive work­shop gathe­red 35 inter­na­tio­nal stu­dents from 11 schools who brought crea­tive solu­tions to respond to the Public Health crisis in the context of Paris and New York cities envi­ron­ment.

Congra­tu­la­tions to ensaama Pro­duct Design stu­dents Naelle Frega (part of the win­ning team with Still United) and Misia Moreau for their par­ti­ci­pa­tion in this chal­len­ging work­shop!
The pro­gram was pre­sen­ted by the Cultu­ral Ser­vices of the French Embassy in the United States, as part of Oui Design with the sup­port of Face Foun­da­tion, Ins­ti­tut Fran­çais-Paris, the French Minis­try of Culture and media part­ner Core 77.
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Cumu­lus Green 2020: For a New Cir­cu­lar Eco­nomy

Our stu­dents in MA Design Stra­te­gies were awar­ded an honou­rable men­tion for their pro­ject True Breath in the Cumu­lus Green 2020: For a New Cir­cu­lar Eco­nomy com­pe­ti­tion.

The com­pe­ti­tion recei­ved 683 appli­ca­tions from 163 uni­ver­si­ties across 44 coun­tries.

https://​cumu​lus​green​.org/​t​r​u​e​-​b​r​eath/

Inter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­tion: Dream 2074!

On the occa­sion of the Cumu­lus confe­rence in April 2018, the Comité Col­bert in part­ner­ship with Ensaama and the Cumu­lus asso­cia­tion announ­ced the launch of the 2018 – 2019 inter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­tion: Dream 2074! A Utopia for French Luxury. Open to all the mem­bers of the Cumu­lus Asso­cia­tion, this inter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­tion invites stu­dents repre­sen­ted by their ins­ti­tu­tions to dream up a desi­rable future for French luxury.

In 2014, the Comité Col­bert, which gathers 81 French luxury houses and 15 cultu­ral ins­ti­tu­tions, looked sixty years ahead and ima­gi­ned an opti­mis­tic future. Their posi­tive vision for tomorrow’s society has been put into words in col­la­bo­ra­tion with six sci-fi wri­ters in the digi­tal book Drea­ming 2074: A Utopia Crea­ted by French Luxury.This com­pe­ti­tion being a for­ward thin­king exer­cise, can­di­dates will have to select ele­ments from the science fic­tion short sto­ries and to dream up the future of French luxury in 2074, in the desi­rable society depic­ted in the book. 

Drea­ming 2074

Contact: info@​comitecolbert.​com

2018 CUMU­LUS CONFE­RENCE

Ensaama, a member of the Cesaap (Confé­rence des écoles supé­rieures d’arts appli­qués de Paris, inclu­ding Boulle, Duperré, Estienne and Ensaama) hosted the 2018 CUMU­LUS CONFE­RENCE in Paris from April 11^th until April 13^rd in a series of confe­rences and round tables on the theme ​‘To get there: Desi­gning toge­ther’.

Watch live videos: Cumu­lus Paris 2018

And also…in the context of the Cumu­lus confe­rence:

• A year in resi­dence at the Mobi­lier Natio­nal: Pre­sen­ta­tion of the crea­tive pro­duc­tion of the Cesaap’s expe­ri­men­tal master’s degree at Les Ate­liers de Paris in the exhi­bi­tion ​’Collection(s)’.
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• tlma​ga​zine​.com > gobe­lins-col­lec­tions-2018
• The exhi­bi­tion ​’Futurs en trans­mis­sion’ at the Arts et Métiers Museum invi­ted visi­tors to dis­co­ver the work of the 4 schools’ new gene­ra­tion of desi­gner-makers and master arti­sans.

« Toge­ther at the Centre Pom­pi­dou »

INTER­NA­TIO­NAL CROSS-DIS­CI­PLI­NARY WORK­SHOP

In the context of the Paris 2018 Cumu­lus Confe­rence hosted by the four Pari­sian schools of Art & Design –Boulle, Duperré, Estienne and Ensaama- an inter­na­tio­nal mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary work­shop was offe­red to stu­dents from the col­leges affi­lia­ted with Cumulus.The work­shop took place at the museum from April 3^rd to 8^th, 2018. As a res­ponse to the Centre Pompidou’s invi­ta­tion, Toge­ther at the centre pom­pi­dou offe­red young desi­gners the pos­si­bi­lity to work in teams on the sub­ject of the living museum as embo­died by the Centre Pom­pi­dou. The stu­dents were invi­ted to cast a designer’s eye on the works, the col­lec­tion, the places, and the mis­sions of the museum.This was a real oppor­tu­nity for onsite cross-dis­ci­pli­nary work in the context of an inter­na­tio­nal tea­ching exchange. The pro­ject was super­vi­sed by mem­bers of the tea­ching staff from the four Pari­sian schools and coor­di­na­ted by Jérôme Picard from the Nor­we­gian archi­tec­ture agency 3RW. It bene­fi­ted from the sup­port and equip­ment of the cura­to­rial and cultu­ral media­tion depart­ments of the Centre Pom­pi­dou.

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INTER­NA­TIO­NAL WORK­SHOP

Pro­duct Design / Spa­tial Design

on the theme of the ‘THIN­KING UNIT” with Cen­tral Saint Martin’s, London, UK

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INTER­NA­TIO­NAL EXCHANGE PRO­JECT T.H.E.A.T.E.R.

on the Theatre pro­fes­sions bet­ween Ensaama/​France, Italy and Bul­ga­ria.
T.H.E.A.T.E.R. – « Tech­niques, Han­di­craft Exchange Around The Euro­pean Regions » 

Arts & Crafts have become more and more impor­tant in the world of contem­po­rary crea­tion. Today, tra­di­tio­nal and ancient savoir-faire are both called into ques­tion and used for their poten­tial in crea­tive research as well as the qua­lity of their mate­rials. Ensaama has part­ne­red with Osser­va­to­rio dei Mes­tieri d’Arte and the Per­gola Theatre in Flo­rence, Italy, toge­ther with Eyn­crin, Bul­ga­ria, so as to confront and com­ple­ment the mate­rials and prac­tices rela­ted to the theatre pro­fes­sions. The aim of the pro­ject was to open up new hori­zons for the future of edu­ca­tion and inter­na­tio­nal contem­po­rary crea­tion. Carou­sel work­shops in the field of Arts & Crafts (crea­tion of cos­tumes and sets) have been orga­ni­sed throu­ghout Europe in all three coun­tries. A tem­po­rary ball room and cos­tumes were exhi­bi­ted at the Ensaama for the 2018 January open house. The ins­tal­la­tion was on dis­play until April 2018.

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www​.eras​mus​thea​ter​.eu

This is an Eras­mus + pro­gramme co-funded by the Euro­pean Union from Octo­ber 2016 until March 2019.

FRANK­FURT BOOK FAIR 2017

In Octo­ber 2017, the French pavi­lion hosted the pro­duc­tions of 53 Ensaama gra­phic design stu­dents majo­ring in print and digi­tal media.

Seven­teen teams, each com­po­sed of three gra­phic desi­gners, crea­ted short videos, ani­ma­ted films, and video clips in res­ponse to the sub­ject pro­po­sed by the tea­ching staff: Ope­ning a book means…

This carte blanche was an oppor­tu­nity for the stu­dents to evoke the dis­co­very of a new lite­rary uni­verse, the appro­pria­tion of a text by the reader, the sense of losing one­self invol­ved in the act of rea­ding, the memo­ries asso­cia­ted with rea­ding, the sudden emo­tions conju­red by sen­tences, pages, images, sen­sa­tions, exchanges, the plea­sures, be they shared, dif­fe­red, or alter­na­tive bet­ween rea­ders, the recol­lec­tions, the books for­got­ten, lost, retrie­ved, the notes in the margin…Echoing the visual iden­tity crea­ted by gra­phic desi­gner Ruedi Baur for the Frank­furt fair, the crea­tive constraint given to the stu­dents was to res­pect the cen­tral axis of the screen. Thus, the shape was linked to the cen­tral fold of the book, which allows for the dia­lec­tic of a double-page spread where photos, fonts, dra­wings, and images, give an inter­pre­ta­tion of the plea­sure of reading.The silent 15-second video modules espe­cially desi­gned for the event ani­ma­ted the screens dis­played in the French pavi­lion, in the heart of the book­cases. The videos were played in a loop throu­ghout the dura­tion of the fair in Octo­ber 2017, and then pren­sen­ted at the Sor­bonne in June 2018.

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