Design on Pierre Lévy

Seminar on methods in design research

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 10:04:12 +0200

The ‘Research practices in design and creation’ methodology seminar is organised and run jointly by the Dicen-IDF laboratory and the Jean Prouvé Design Chair at the National Conservatory of Arts and Craft (Cnam). Primarily aimed at master’s students, young researchers, doctoral candidates and those aspiring to become such, it invites members of research communities linked to the fields of design and creation to contribute together to a better understanding of the methodological issues involved in research as a place for exploration, discussion and the dissemination of ideas and knowledge.

Pierre Lévy

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:55:28 +0200

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.

Is design a human science?

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0200

Within École Estienne, SEMPER* constitutes a space of intersection and reflection common to the four DSAA training programs. The seminar, initiated by Jérôme Duwa, Olivier Moulin and Carole Papion, invites reflection on and highlighting of what is being constituted as design research within our environment at École Estienne: experiences in printing, in the crafts, in the fields of graphic design, illustration, digital creation, typography and communication strategy.

Manuel ZACKLAD (Prof. CNAM) and Pierre LÉVY (Prof. CNAM) dialogued about design and the humanities for the inaugural SEMPER conference, presented by Jérôme Duwa (École Estienne), on Thursday, September 26, 2024.

School of not-knowing

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:30:52 +0200

Les cahiers de l’école du non-savoir sont publiés et accessibles sur le site de Civic City et sur Ulule.

L’école du non-savoir, a collaborative project and event with Civic-City, Ruedi Baur and Vera Bau, the Cnam’s Design Jean Prouvé chair (Pierre Lévy), the Institut Français and Estienne / École Supérieure des Arts et Industries Graphiques, is based on the conviction that dialogue between the arts, design, science and society can open up new horizons in our understanding and apprehension of known and yet-to-be-discovered worlds. Through collaborative and evolving reflection, we question the mysteries and blind spots of today’s world and of worlds to come, our relationship with the known, the unknown, the hidden and the buried, questioning representations as well as modes of transmission of non-knowledge. The aim is to imagine how design can give visibility to what is not visible, make perceptible what is not, and show what cannot be seen. To this end, it is bringing together experts and a network of 30 art and design schools from around the world to examine this non-knowledge together.

Seminar of the school of not-knowing

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0200

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. During the second phase the exhibition of around a hundred panels circulated Florence and Rome. New schools joined the initial project by adding new visuals. This set will be presented in Porto as part of the Design Biennale from October 21, 2023, with the support of the French Institute of Portugal.
The third phase is being organized on the basis of around thirty schools and universities, coming from France, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Poland, India and Madagascar.

Chaire of Design Jean Prouvé

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:55:28 +0200

The Jean Prouvé Chair in Design is a welcoming space dedicated to developing the role of design practice and research in society and culture. Its focus is on expressing beauty through everyday materials and reflective practices.

Pierre Lévy

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:55:28 +0200

Publications

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:55:28 +0200

Research

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:55:28 +0200

Japanese phylosophy inspired design

Transforming practices

Kansei studies

Perceptive qualities

The notion of perceptual crossing indicates the experience of interplay between perceptive activities of multiple beings (train anecdote). Charles Lenay explained the importance of perceptual crossing in the encounter of the other’s perceptual intentionality, in the mutual attraction of perceptual activities (“they come to start a sort of a dance together”), leading to the constitution of a shared world of emotions. Creating such a connection between beings is often experienced, and it is (and it has been for a long time) a quest in design to build such connection between a being (or user) and an artefact: how to design for perceptual crossing?