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French-American Online Design Schools Workshop

French-American Online Design Schools Workshop

A 72-Hour Online Design Charette
Wednesday May 27th – Friday May 29th, 2020


How can design respond to the current worldwide public health challenge?
Design Students 🇫🇷+🇺🇸 collaborated on design for an emergency 
Co-led by Sophie Larger of ENSAD (France) and Allan Chochinov director, SVA Products of Design (USA)
Presented by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, as part of Oui Design, and WantedDesign, with the support of FACE Foundation.
Media partner Core77

The French-American Online Design Schools Workshop is a collaborative workshop in which teams was created with mixed groups of students. They all worked from home where they were confined.

French and American schools participating collaboratively and synchronously online over 3 days, in teams of three or four selected students (10 teams, for a total of 34 students). The goal is to open a dialog between the students from both sides of the Atlantic and with different backgrounds, and therefore the team will include students from different schools.

Design professors from ENSAD (France), PARSONS The New School (USA) and SVA (USA) will lead the workshop with students from their schools and Ecole ESTIENNE (France), ENSCI Les ateliers (France), ESAAT (France), ENSAAMA (France), Strate School of Design (France), PRATT Institute (USA), RISD (USA) and SAIC (USA).

The Jury Review was conducted by Allan Chochinov, and will include Sophie Larger, Laurent Clavel and Anne Claire Duprat (French Embassy), Odile Hainaut and Claire Pijoulat (WantedDesign), and guests from the design industry: Amelie du Passage (Petite Friture), matali crasset (designer), John Edelman (former CEO, Design Within Reach), Julie Lasky (editor, critic and writer).


The context

The urban response in NYC/Paris to the COVID-19 public health crisis.
How can design respond to the current worldwide public health challenge?
Students will work within the context of those cities at the time of the workshop, considering the evolution of the situation, the challenges at this specific time, and the time after.
The goal and hope are that the outcome and final online presentations will become a “Guide Book” (in website format) to be shared, and to have those proposals implemented to better respond to the ongoing situation or future similar situations.

Topics:
â—Ź Communication
â—Ź Healthcare
â—Ź Confinement/Mental Health Tool Kit
â—Ź Mobility & Public Spaces
â—Ź Living in Community


About the jury

Allan Chochinov is the Founding Chair of the MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a partner of Core77, the design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts since 1995. Allan lectures widely around the world, focusing on the topics of ethics, education, and social change.

Julie Lasky is a journalist, editor and critic best known for her writings on design. She has been the deputy editor of the New York Times’s weekly Home section, the editor-in-chief of I.D and Interiors magazines, and the managing editor of Print magazine. She contributes to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Dwell, Departures, Travel & Leisure, House Beautiful, Landscape Architecture and other publications. She teaches in the graduate industrial design program at Parsons School of Design. 

Amélie du Passage graduated from HEC economics school and served as speech writer under Jean- Jacques Aillagon during his time as Minister for Culture, before working for the FIAC Contemporary Art Fair with Martin Bethenod. In 2009, Amélie du Passage, driven by her love for design, took the step of founding the contemporary design producer Petite Friture, of which she is now Artistic Director.

John Edelman is currently an independent business and design consultant. From 2010 until 2019, he was CEO of Design Within Reach and Herman Miller Consumer Group. During his tenure at Design Within Reach John transformed the business from a struggling, money-losing purveyor of both authentic and knock-off goods to the world leader in authentic modern design. John’s visionary collaborations with some of today’s most talented designers resulted in scores of successful modern furniture collections. Subsequently, Design Within Reach became a highly respected business resulting in an internationally publicized sale to Herman Miller. John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Be Original Americas, DIFFA, and the Design Leadership Network. He sits on numerous advisory councils including NYCxDesign and the Phillip Johnson Glass House.

matali crasset studied marketing and industrial design at Les Ateliers, Ecole nationale supérieure de création industrielle in Paris. After graduating in 1991, she worked for the designer Denis Santachiara in Milan. In 1993, she returned to Paris to work for the designer Philippe Starck. She opened her own studio in Paris in 1998, and she founded the company, Matali Crasset Productions, in 2002. She designs exhibits, interiors, furniture, public, and technological product