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Pierre Lévy

prof.dr.ing. Pierre Lévy, HDR

Professor (PRCM)

Holder of the Chair of design Jean Prouvé

Dpt Computer Science (EPN05)

Researcher at Dicen laboratory

Associate researcher at SACRe

Associate researcher at TU/e

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Drawing on theories of embodiment and Japanese philosophy and thought, my research proposes a cultural decentring of the arts, design and engineering in order to explore their relationship with non-institutionalised creative moments in everyday life (appropriation, deviation, etc.). Through this research, I am interested in the attitude, the societal role and the limitations of design in the service of transforming practices.

Course
01|01 · 2025/...

Ensaama · DSAA granting master's degree

The craft and design school Ensaama and the Cnam jointly award the Higher Diploma in Applied Arts, equivalent to a master's degree (120 ECTS credits at level 7).

Course
01|02 · 2023/...

PhD in Arts, Design & Society

The ‘Arts, Design and Society’ specialisation at the Abbé Grégoire Doctoral School (ED 546) covers a range of disciplines that link creativity and society, encompassing epistemological, artistic, industrial, societal and ecological considerations, and spanning creation, design and innovation.

Course
01|03 · 2021/...

Master Design

L'objectif de ce Master est de former des créateurs capables de concevoir leur projet professionnel, d’inventer leur pratique de design de manière prospective en intégrant l’évolution des sociétés et des contextes culturels et techniques sans cesse redéfinis.

01 · Courses ⇢

Event
02|01 · 01 January 2025

Seminar on methods in design research

This seminar invites research communities linked to design and creation to contribute together to a better understanding of methodological issues in research as a place for exploration, discussion and dissemination of ideas and knowledge.

Event
02|02 · 09 September 2024

Is design a human science?

Duwa, J., Zacklad, M. & Lévy, P. (2024). Le design est-il une science humaine ?, presented at l'École Estienne, Paris, France. February 27th, 2023.

Event
02|03 · 10 October 2023

Seminar of the school of not-knowing

This seminar aims to launch the third session of the school of not-Knowing. The first began in September 2022 at the French Institute in Milan and culminated in the form of a first exhibition in the same place in January 2024.

Event
02|04 · 02 February 2023

Irregularity, a societal opportunity

Lévy, P. (2023). Irregularity, a societal opportunity, presented at l'École Supérieure d'Art et Design de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France. February 27th, 2023.

Event
02|05 · 09 September 2022

The beauty of the Japanese pattern

Lévy, P. (2022). La beauté du motif japonais, presented at École Boulle, Paris, France. September 09th, 2022.

Event
02|06 · 05 May 2022

Inaugural lecture of the Chair of design Jean Prouvé

Lévy, P. (2022). The moment of design - Inaugural lecture of the Chair of design Jean Prouvé, presented at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris, France. May 13th, 2022.

Event
02|07 · 12 December 2021

Mediums in design

02 · Events ⇢

Presentation
03|01 · 2024

About design

A short introduction to design.

Presentation
03|02 · 2024

Pierre Lévy

A brief introduction

Presentation
03|03 · 2024

Transforming practices

A brief introduction

03 · Presentations ⇢

Project
04|01 · 2024

School of not-knowing

The School of not-knowing is based on the conviction that dialogue between art, design, science and society can open up new horizons for understanding and apprehending known and yet-to-be-discovered worlds.

04 · Projects ⇢

Publication
05|01 · 2023

Sketching Kansei Studies as a Complex Unit

In Emotional Engineering, Vol. 9

Lévy, P. (2023). Sketching Kansei Studies as a Complex Unit. In: Fukuda, S. (eds) Emotional Engineering, Vol. 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi-org.proxybib-pp.cnam.fr/10.1007/978-3-031-05867-7_7

Publication
05|02 · 2022

Complex Thinking for Kansei Studies - For an epistemological shift of the field

Lévy, P. (2022). Complex Thinking for Kansei Studies - For an epistemological shift of the field. Proceedings of Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research International Conference 2022 - KEER2022. Barcelona, Spain: Japan Society of Kansei Engineering. https://www.doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788419184849.15

Publication
05|03 · 2022

From the Station of Being to Societal Transformation: How design can drive a new European Renaissance

In The Next Renaissance - Culture and Creativity shaping Europe

Trotto, A., Hummels, C.C.M., Peeters, Yoo, Levy, P. (2022). From the Station of Being to Societal Transformation: How design can drive a new European Renaissance. in The Next Renaissance - Culture and Creativity shaping Europe, Odile Jacob, 978-2-4150-0199-5

Publication
05|04 · 2021

Je, nous, ils·elles : le·la designer, ses collectifs et les écosystèmes de conception

Sciences du Design 13

Berger, E., & Lévy, P. (2021). Je, nous, ils·elles: Le·la designer, ses collectifs et les écosystèmes de conception. Sciences du Design, 13(1), 10–15.

Publication
05|05 · 2021

Expériences vécues de design

Sciences du Design 13

Berger, E. & Lévy P. (Eds) (2021) Expériences vécues de design. Sciences du Design. Presses Universitaires de France. ISSN: 2428-3711.

Publication
05|06 · 2021

Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design

Maarten L. Smith, Sander van der Zwan, Jelle P. Bruineberg, Pierre D. Lévy, and Caroline C. M. Hummels. 2021. Scaffolding shared imagination with tangible design. In Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’21), February 14–17, 2021, Salzburg, Austria. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3430524.3440639

Publication
05|07 · 2020

Philosophy at Work – Postphenomenology as a Generative Lens in Design Research and Practice

van der Zwan, S., Smith, M. L., Bruineberg, J., Lévy, P., & Hummels, C. C. M. (2020). Philosophy at Work - Postphenomenology as a Generative Lens in Design Research and Practice. Proceedings of the Design Research Society 2020, DRS2020, Sydney, Australia (online). https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.337

Publication
05|08 · 2019

Design research and innovation framework for transformative practices

In Strategy for change

Hummels, C., Trotto, A., Peeters, J., Lévy, P., Alves Lino, J. & Klooster, S. (2019). Design research and innovation framework for transformative practices. In Strategy for change (pp. 52-76). Glasgow, UK: Glasgow Caledonian University. ISBN: 978-972-789-482-6

Publication
05|09 · 2018

The beauty of making hot chocolate, an inquiry on designing for everyday rituals

Lévy, P. (2018). The beauty of making hot chocolate – an inquiry on designing for everyday rituals. In Design Research Society 2018, DRS2018. Limerick, Ireland: Design Research Society. https://doi.org/10.21606/dma.2017.514

Publication
05|10 · 2013

Matter of transformation, designing an alternative tomorrow inspired by phenomenology

Interactions 20(6)

Hummels, C., & Lévy, P. (2013). Matter of Transformation: Designing an Alternative Tomorrow Inspired by Phenomenology. Interactions, 20(6), 42–49. https://doi.org/10.1145/2533713

05 · Publications ⇢

Research
06|01 · 2020/...

Transforming practices

Research
06|02 · 2015/...

Perceptive qualities

Research
06|03 · 2003/...

Kansei studies, kansei design

06 · Research ⇢

Teaching
07|01 · 2024/...

Dialoguing

The major aim of this course is to improve students' scientific or technical presentation skills, focusing on the roles and the effects of involved media in presenting a project (e.g., a poster, an artefact, a video...).

Teaching
07|02 · 2022/...

Initiation à recherche en design et création

Cette UE propose une vue d'ensemble des pratiques de la recherche en design, art et création, afin de contextualiser la pratique dans l'activité de recherche.

07 · Teaching ⇢

Writing
08|01 · 05 May 2023

Diversity in the teaching of design and arts and crafts must become the standard

A reflection on current and future design and craft education

08 · Writings ⇢