How high-end design facilitates ecology and social reintegration
Saturday 18 January —
12:00
- 12:45
The Talks
Description
Through collaboration with high-end designers, Emmaüs makes it possible for otherwise marginalized individuals to develop innovative products then sold in prestigious locations. These two seemingly opposite worlds have a common interest in « déclassées ».
Nos partenaires : MINI
Participants
Ionna VautrinDesigner
Guillaume PoignonDirector - Atelier Emmaüs
Nathalie GuirmaJournalist
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.
Guillaume Poignon
Director - Atelier Emmaüs
Guillaume Poignon graduated from Centrale Nantes Engineering School and Imperial College Business School in 2012. He started a career in the Automotive Industry before switching to Social Entrepreneurship with the launching of Atelier Emmaüs in Lyon in 2016. This social enterprise aims to reducing inequalities by offering training opportunities to jobless people within the field of wood craftsmanship. Now affiliated to the Emmaüs NGO, L’Atelier Emmaüs sells furniture made by the trainees, in most of the cases from scrap material. Atelier Emmaüs is proud to launch three new products in collaboration with famous French product designers.
Nathalie Guirma
Journalist
Nathalie Guirma is a TV producer and a TV host. She promotes french know-how on France televisions channels and on Sud radio.