Does design have a gender?
Monday 9 September —
11:00
- 11:45
The Talks
Description
Of course, men and women designers have their own genders, but what about the object itself? Beyond statistics, let’s analyse if there are aesthetic or conceptual particularities to solve the question.
Nos partenaires : MINI
Participants
Matali CrassetDesigner
Amélie du PassageFounder - Petite Friture
Ionna VautrinDesigner
Oscar DuboÿJournalist
Matali Crasset
Designer
Matali Crasset is an industrial designer. She envisions design as a quest. She works from an off-center approach that allows her to both intervene in everyday life and project scenarios for the future. Her methodology is made up of observations of ordinary practices and the questioning the usual organizational principles. Reflecting her iconic object, the “When Jim goes to Paris” hospitality column, it is from a fine observation of uses that she invents new rituals. With a view that is both expert and always new of the world around her, she questions the obvious rules of style in order to better distance herself from them. Her job is to look for new categorizations and formulate new ways of life. Her experience acquired over the years now commits her to an increasing number of participative projects, both locally and globally, in both rural and urban areas. From meetings, creative workshops, brainstorming and shared desires, she works with project promoters who are different but also believe that collective dynamics generate plausible scenarios fostering social connections. It is ultimately around the issue of living together that fictions, narratives and the meaning of matali’s work is structured.
Amélie du Passage
Founder - Petite Friture
Amélie du Passage is the founder and artistic director of PETITE FRITURE. Upon leaving HEC in 2003, Amélie du Passage joined the Cabinet of Minister of Culture Jean-Jacques Aillagon. In 2005, she joined the FIAC alongside Martin Bethenod, and participated in the return of the FIAC to the heart of Paris. In 2009, she founded PETITE FRITURE, a design house, with the aim of asserting a distinct style and taking with her a part of the emerging design scene. Constance Guisset was one of her first collaborations, with the making of the Vertigo lamp. Today, the brand has a complete collection of furniture, lighting and objects, but beyond its catalog, it is committed to promoting its true spirit with a clearly identifiable universe that tells a vibrant story and invites us to a joyful and optimistic lifestyle.
Ionna Vautrin
Designer
Graduated from l’école de design Nantes Atlantique in 2002, Ionna Vautrin has worked successively for Camper in Spain, for George J. Sowden in Italy and for Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec in France. She opened her own studio in 2011 after receiving the Grand Prize of the creation of Paris. She collaborate with differents editors like Foscarini, Moustache, Kvadrat, Christian Dior, Sancal, Lexon, Serralunga, SNCF, JCDecaux, Monoprix… Her work is a meeting between industry and poetry. She draws everyday objects whose ambition is to be simple and obvious but surprising. These projects offer a gentle and generous presence, organic and geometric shapes, a cheerful and colorful spirit, an intuitive and functional usage.
Oscar Duboÿ
Journalist
Based in Paris, Oscar Duboÿ is an Italian-French freelance journalist specialising in design and interior architecture. He continues to work with AD since its beginning, not to mention his collaborations with La Gazette Drouot, TLmag and his editorial consultancy activities for luxury and auction houses. Today, he is more interested in the interaction between art and design collections.