Western art transforms the 'impression' into description. The haiku never describes; its art is counterdescriptive, to the degree that each state of the thing is immediately, stubbornly, victoriously converted into a fragile essence of appearance.
- Roland Barthes (2007)
Projects & Publications
Artefactual emptiness – On appropriation in kansei design
Lévy, P. (2020). Artefactual emptiness - On appropriation in kansei design. Proceedings of Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research International Conference 2020, KEER2020. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Society of Kansei Engineering.
Designing for the everyday through thusness and irregularity
Lévy, P. (2019). Designing for the everyday through thusness and irregularity. In Proceedings of 8th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research, IASDR 2019. Manchester, UK: Manchester Metropolitan University.
Le temps de l’expérience, enchanter le quotidien par le design
Lévy, P. (2018). Le temps de l'expérience, Enchanter le quotidien par le design. Compiègne University of Technology, France
3D-modeling and 3D-printing explorations on Japanese tea ceremony utensils
Lévy, P., & Yamada, S. (2017). 3D-modeling and 3D-printing explorations on Japanese tea ceremony utensils. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions, TEI17. Yokohama, Japan: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3024969.3024990