Lille Metropolis 2020 World Design Capital
Sunday 8 September —
12:00
- 12:45
The Talks
Description
How do you integrate sustainable design into a specific landscape? This is the challenge of Lille Métropole 2020, the World Capital of Design. 500 projects run by communities, companies and associations are assisted by designers.
Nos partenaires : MINI
Participants
Ramy FischlerDesigner
Gauthier RoussilheDesigner & Researcher - a Limited Earth
Caroline NaphegyiProgram Director - Lille Métropole World Design Capital 2020
Ramy Fischler
Designer
Ramy Fischler, a Belgian designer based in Paris, has developed an eclectic creative practice. He is graduated from the Ecole nationale supérieure de création industrielle ENSCI-Les Ateliers, and laureate of the Académie de France in Rome in 2010. He joined the Villa Médicis where he considered, in situ, how visitors and artists are received within this legendary place, and became interested in the history of furniture and their association with power. Research that gave rise to several exhibits in Italy and Paris. Fascinated by the tension between history, space and furniture, Ramy Fischler created his own agency, RF Studio, in 2011. Among his most recent projects, the Twitter France headquarter, the National Gallery Cafe in London, the community kitchen restaurant Refettorio Paris in collaboration with the artist JR and Encore Heureux architect and the 5-star hotel on the Champs-Elysées Avenue.
Gauthier Roussilhe
Designer & Researcher - a Limited Earth
After co-directing a design firm for 4 years, Gauthier directed and produced the documentary “Ethics for Design”, which examines designers’ reponsibility in the context of contemporary practice. Since 2017, he has been exploring the transformation of design within climate change and its social, economic, cultural, and political impacts. He has also documented design methods for digital low-tech and investigates the environmental consequences of digital industries. As part of a collaboration with the Les Sismo design firm, he has developed the “POC Care House”, a living space that will reflect the transformation of the Hauts de France region through design practices guided by “taking care, focusing attention, and enhancing its capabilities”.
Caroline Naphegyi
Program Director - Lille Métropole World Design Capital 2020
Program Director of Lille Métropole2020 World Design Capital, after heading up lille—design since 2013. Her main objectives for lille—design included advancing design practices within companies, supporting designers from the metropolitan area and the region in growing their businesses, putting into practice design experiences as part of public policy, social innovation through design, and including design at the heart of urban planning. After contributing to the programming of lille3000 from 2000 through 2006, she was given the task by its founder David Edwards to head up the Laboratoire, a space dedicated to developing research protocols that bring together designers and scientists. Then, in 2010, she founded the Tomorrowland company, a toolbox to support projects at the crossroads of different disciplines, as well as Design for change, an international design competition that puts into practice innovative solutions for local community authorities.