The 10th Biennale Internationale Design Saint

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Press release 9 March 2016
The 10th Biennale
Internationale Design
Saint-Étienne
announces its title:
Working Promesse,
shifting work paradigms
March, 9th 2017 - April 9th 2017
Scientific Director: Olivier Peyricot
The Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2017 will present a state of
the art and a great experiment, a giant laboratory, entitled Working Promesse
focused on the shifting work paradigms.
Work is one of the major preoccupations of our society. For us all,
work provides both income and status, it promises emancipation and
a future. At the heart of political and economic concerns, offshoot of
the dream of a generalized full-employment, it is central to political
and economic concerns, work, at the beginning of this 21st century, it
undergoing an entire transformation.
From digital labor to the sharing economy, the world of work is being
reconfigured; it is inventing new organisations, new services but also
new throes and new hopes. Designers, companies and the entire
Saint-Etienne territory will gather in 2017 around this topic in order to
confront different perspectives, ideologies, innovations and desires.
And it is with the participation of the public that we will work towards
this promise.
Central to the issue of work mutations, the Biennial will investigate the
three following themes:
- Digital Labor. The confrontation of digital tools with various crises
- environmental, economic and terrorist - that successively shake our
social structures, is leading to multiple disruptions in our societies;
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2015 © C.Bruchet
- Share utopie ? Work is an exceptional space for technical and
organisational inventions that exploits an entire part of humanity,
leading to suffering as well as hope. However, it also reveals
nonstandard productive capacities that fascinate, deviate and absorb
our imaginations. From the design of an interface meant for the
management of a shared service to the active participation in citizen
groups, designers take up ideological perspectives that are going to
sustainably contribute to the elaboration of our environment.
* Signature provisoire : le nom de la Région sera fixé par
décret en Conseil d’État avant le 1er octobre 2016, après avis
du Conseil Régional.
Organisation
des Nations Unies
pour l’éducation,
la science et la culture
Ville de design
Membre du Réseau UNESCO
des villes créatives
depuis 2010
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Press release 9 March 2016
- Future existences. The questions that are going to stir up the
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne 2017 will provide an
opportunity to explore the experimental forms of work through its tools
of production but also its fictional and futurist dimensions: will we still
need to work? At what rhythms? Alone or collectively, in networks or
in atomized ways? Will we be under surveillance? What value will we
have? Will there be gender, race or aptitude segregations? What issues
will technology resolve? Who will be in charge of it? What will we gain
from it? How will we experience it?
Design is also in a period of transition: from object to service, from
urban dimension to social dimension, the scales on which design has
a role to play are being multiplied. Working Promesse, shifting work
paradigms will be an opportunity to use design to interrogate our
future lifestyles.
The 3rd generation Biennial will be revealed in 2017
A new impulse for the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne 2017
Since 1998, date of its first edition, the Biennale Internationale Design
Saint-Étienne, reveals the current state of design and creativity
worldwide and invites visitors to question themselves on the evolution
of societies and on new ways of life. From 1998 to 2004, the Biennial
was initiated and organised by the ESADSE. Run by the Cité du Design,
under the direction of Elsa Francès, from 2006 to 2015, the biennial
gathers under a unique topic several external curators. The 2017 edition
stands out to launch the 3rd generation Biennale Internationale Design
Saint-Étienne, that distinguishes itself by three aspects:
- A scientific direction producer of corpus of knowledge on the
selected topic. A substantive work that aims at supporting the
exchanges with the personalities invited to share their views at the
biennial.
- A Biennial that is more than just an exhibition. Beyond the display
of a design point of view on the topic of work, it is an opportunity to
experiment. An experience in which the visitors are encouraged to act
(involved in a piece of creation), or producers.
- An entire city that is mobilized. The 2017 edition is an opportunity to
transform Saint-Étienne into an experimental territory for new uses. the
Cité du Design wishes to work with all partners interested in testing
and developing new experiences and appropriating the practices of
tomorrow. To achieve this, the Cité du Design may propose tailored
offers for companies, giving them the chance to participate in the
experiment offered by the exhitions or to use the Saint-Etienne district
as a «laboratory».
* Signature provisoire : le nom de la Région sera fixé par
décret en Conseil d’État avant le 1er octobre 2016, après avis
du Conseil Régional.
Organisation
des Nations Unies
pour l’éducation,
la science et la culture
Ville de design
Membre du Réseau UNESCO
des villes créatives
depuis 2010
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Press release 9 March 2016
The Biennial will be present at the 21st Triennale di Milano
with an exhibition entitled Saint-Étienne changes design,
from 2 April to 12 September 2016 - MUDEC, ex-Ansaldo
BASE Milano
«A territory of experimentation and innovation, Saint-Étienne, capital
of French design, will no leave no-one indifferent at the Triennale
di Milano!» emphasises Gaël Perdriau, Mayor of Saint-Étienne and
President of Saint-Étienne Métropole. The city of Saint-Étienne has
been invited by the Triennale di Milano represent France at its 21st
edition. The Cité du Design, the ESADSE and the Saint-Étienne
International Design Biennial will all be present from 2 April to 12
September at the BASE Milano for the «Saint-Étienne changes design»
exhibition on the occasion of the 21st Triennale di Milano. The 250 m²
exhibition will be divided into three strands: design in the city of SaintÉtienne, the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial 2017 and the
exhibition of the ESADSE students’ work on the «Fukushima MON
AMOUR» project developed in collaboration with the CCSTI F93.
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* Signature provisoire : le nom de la Région sera fixé par
décret en Conseil d’État avant le 1er octobre 2016, après avis
du Conseil Régional.
Organisation
des Nations Unies
pour l’éducation,
la science et la culture
Ville de design
Membre du Réseau UNESCO
des villes créatives
depuis 2010