Report activity 2015

Hand in Hand
France - Taiwan 2010 - 2015
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CONTENT
6 FORDWORD
7 HiH EDITORIAL - PATRICIO SARMIENTO
9 HIH MISSION - EMILIO CARRERA
10 HiH TIME-LINE
16 TAOYUAN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY PROJECT
18 HiH RESIDENCIES
19 DESIGNERS AND ARTISANS
20 PRODUCTS
25 MAIN PARTNERS
26 RESOURCES
26 PRESS
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FORDWORD
The following document
traces the journey of a singular association of motivated
people that since 2011 they
have joined forces to create
a common bridge between
artisans and designers from
Taiwan and France.
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EDITORIAL
PATRICIO SARMIENTO
HiH Founder
Hand in hand is a non-lucrative association, created as a cross-cultural platform
that aims to boost local development
through craftsmanship, innovation and
design.
Founded, in partnership with the National
Taiwan Craft Research and Development
Institute (NTCRI) and supported by the
Cultural Center of Taiwan in Paris and l’Institut Français, Hand in Hand is based on
cultural and know-how exchange as well
as the creation and the implementation of
local resources.
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recognized prices
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major exhibitions in Paris
and Taipei
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residencies
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workshops in France and
Taiwan
15 designers
32 artisans from both countries
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HiH mission
EMILIO CARRERA
HIH President
Hand in Hand
enables artisans
and designers to create together local
products for a contemporary and multicultural sustainable market.
Research and develop local crafts through
design in a creative and sustainable environment.
Produce, distribute and communicate the
work fruit of international exchanges between designers and artisans.
Act as a cultural bridge between international organizations.
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HiH time line
1st visit to Taiwan
Patricio Sarmiento was invited by
Director Lin to visit the NTCRI as
well as to discover the inuque Taiwanses craftsmenship around the
island.
Exhibition and press conference at
the NTCRI
1st HiH Residency, Nantou - Tai-
Exhibition of the 1st residency’s results, it
was held at the NTCRI Exhibition Center.
Several media press from Taiwan covered
the conference.
wan
The first residency took place at the
NTCRI.
Participants:
Johan Brunel et Samuel Misslen
/ Atelier[jes], Cécile Rembauville-Nicolle, Aurore Thibout, Patricio Sarmiento.
2010
2011
Claire Jochum, textile workshop.
Hand in Hand exhibition at the International Design Congress.
Under the agreement of Taiwan
France Collaboration (TFC), Patricio
Sarmiento, invited Claire Jochum
teacher at Parsons Paris School of
Art & Design.
Taipei -Taiwan
Curatorship and scenography design by
Patricio Sarmiento for the “French Design
Gallery” at the “International Craft Design
Exhibition”. The exhibition consisted in
a collection of objects realized in France
and in Taiwan by the collaboration of
Designers and Artisans.
Hand in Hand is started
Creation of Hand in Hand residency, Patricio Sarmiento will invite designers and artisans from France to
Taiwan for a cultural and know-how
exchange.
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Encounter with Taiwanese Universities
Exhibition at Parsons Paris
School of Art & Design, Paris -
Patricio Sarmiento visited several colleges and universities from Taiwan,
among them:
National Taiwan Untiversity, National Taiwan University of Art, Shih Chien University, etc.
1st price for design at the International Design Congress,
Taipei -Taiwan
Bamboo Chair
-Designer, Samuel Misslen
-Artisan, Lin Jian-Cheng
France
Exhibition of a collection of handbags
done during the residency 2011 by Patricio
Sarmiento
2nd HiH Residency
Under the artistic direction the second residency took place at the NTCRI
head-quarters.
Participants:
Heidi Winge Strøm, David des Moutis,
Emmanuel Lacoste
2012
Partnership between National Taiwan
University of Arts and Parson Paris
School of Art & Design
Creation of a pedagogical exchange program
between students and teachers of those two
institutuions.
Workshop on Textile manipulation,
Kaohsiung - Taiwan
French Textile workshop given by Aurore
Thibout at Shu-Te University
Exhibition at Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Arts
(ENSAAMA), Paris - France
Exhibition of works done during the
residency 2011, Organized by Atelier
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Lecture “Hand in hand at Taiwan” at Parsons Paris College
of Art & Design, Paris - France
Professor Patricio Sarmiento lectures
about the culture and know-how
exchange between Taiwan and France
through the HiH residencies at the
NTCRI
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“Originality / Purity” exhibition, National Taipei University
of Education, Taipei - Taiwan
D’Days exhibition 2013, Pantin
- France
Designer’s Days invites Hand in Hand to
be part, for the first time, of the D’Days
festival. Inmidiate success, Hand in
Hand is considered as one of the most
remarcable exhibition of the festival
2013.
NTCRI Dir. Hsu Ken-Hsiu visits
Paris
The work of Atelier Jes and Patricio
Sarmiento as part of a collective exibition.
3rd HiH Residency, Nantou
-Taiwan
The third residency took place at the NTCRI.
Thanks to the support of the Bureau Francais
à Taiwan, Hand in Hand invited Dir. Hsue to
come to Paris to encounter french craft and
design organzations, to mention some:
-Institut National du Metier d’art (INMA)
-Les Atelliers de Paris
-Les Compagnons du Devoir
-Atellier d’art de France
-Manufacture de Sevres
-Maison Baccarat
Participants:
Designers: Sebastien Cordoleani, Aurore Thibout, Grégoire Talon, Chun-Tai Chen.
Artisans: Anthony Delobre and Manon Chaillot (Les Compagnons du Devoir), Wu-Ming
Chang (NTCRI).
2013
Hand in Hand exhibition at
Made in Town, Paris - France
Exhibition of a selection of works of the
1st and 2nd HiH residencies.
“One Hour of Design”, Paris -
France
Une Heure de Design, is a radio emission which invited Patricio Sarmiento
and Johan Brunel to talk about Hand
in Hand project at Taiwan. The talk was
focused on the cultural and know-how
exchange between France and Taiwan.
Patricio Sarmiento invite Les
Compagnons du Devoir, Paris
-France
To be part of Hand in Hand adventure, 2
wood craft specialists are invited to come
to Taiwan to join the HiH residency 2013.
Grand Prix de la creation de la
ville de Paris 2013
Aurore Thibout wins the Highest price of
creation given by the City of Paris, to the
work on textiles done during her residency
2013.
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Conference:
“Taiwanese Culture and know-how of Bamboo”,
Paris - France
“Bamboo Culture” Workshop at
Coubertin Foundation. France
The conference:
a wide scope of
its
applications
and
properties
of a material that
combines historical tradition, high
performance and
environmentally
friendly:
In collaboration with Les Compagnons du
Devoir, Hand in Hand invited 3 Craft bamboo specialists from the NTCRI.
-Mme. Lin, Hsiu-Feng
-Mrs. Mei-Ru Lin
-M. LIU Chi-Hsiu
Participants:
-Mme. Hsiu-Feng Lin, NTCRI bamboo specialist.
-Mr Patricio Sarmiento, Hand in Hand Director.
-Mr Michel Abadie, President of World Bamboo Organization.
-Mme Florence Bouillon, President of French division of the
Bamboo European Association.
“Carrying the Precious” Workshop
Nantou - Taiwan
Prof. Patricio Sarmiento
gave a workshop at NTCRI
headquarters as part of
Hand in Hand pedagogical
engagement. This workshop gave the participants the opportunity to explore
the bamboo material as a media to create accessories
(hand-bags, jewelry, etc) that can be use in our daily
life.
2014
“Paris - Taiwan” Exhibition at
D’Days, Paris - France
4th HiH Residency: “Bamboo
jewels”, Nantou -Taiwan
Considered as one of the focal exhibitions during D’Days festival, Hand in
Hand presented the result of the last
three residencies that have taken place
at the NTCRI.
Patricio Sarmiento meets: Taipei
- Taiwan
-Mrs. Yi-Chung Hsu (Taiwan Ministry of
Culture)
-Museum of Contemporary Art at Atipei
(MOCA)
-Taiwan Design Week
-Chambre De Commerce Franco Taiwanese
Bamboo Live Workshop, Paris -
France
For this session 2014, with the support of
the Bureau Francais a Taiwan, La region
d’ile de France, and the NTCRI, Hand in
Hand has invited 6 young jewelry designers from the AFEDAP to come to Taiwan
for a 2-week residency. Under the direction
of Manuel Lacoste, the young Parisian designers and Taiwanese bamboo artisans
interacted in a creative dialogue in order
to produce innovative pieces of ecological
jewelry.
As part of “Taiwan - Paris” exhibition, Hand
in Hand in collaboration with Les Compagnons du Devoir organized a live workshop
in order to nourish each other’s skills by a
creative dialogue between our two cultures
as well as to boost the exchanges between
designers and artisans of both countries.
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Taoyuan aboriginal community development project.
Taoyuan - Taiwan
This project is around
bamboo production as a
mean of social and economical development of
an aboriginal community
in the region of Taoyuan.
This project will promote
the development, not only
of the community but also
the creation of an alternative bamboo production.
In Taiwan, bamboo craft is
held by few craft-artists and it is not really
passed on and a competitive craft industry
does not exist. By creating a sustainable
structure that has the basic know-how of
working with bamboo, we could compel
the demands of local and international designers.
Conference:
Bamboo: a taiwanese cultural material.
Paris - France
Hung-wei Lee (Michael)
Phd. candidate
Yu-Jui Chou (Kevin)
Designer
For this occasion HiH has invited:
Designer: Yu-Jui Chou (Kevin), Kevin has a considerable experience working with this material.
Artisan: Hungwei Lee(Michael), His PhD subject is on
Taiwan’s bamboo in the global market.
They will discuss the possibilities of this versatile material and the roll on Taiwanese society.
5th HiH Residency, Nantou
- Taiwan
For this session 2015 - 2016, Hand in Hand will invite 3 confirmed designers to come to Taiwan for a 4 week residency. Following the vision that HiH has pursued towards the cooperation
between Taiwan and France, these residences will be under
the theme of Taipei World Design Capital in 2016; it is the
ideal ground to display creative solutions of design, craftsmanship and industry towards the improvement of Taipei Citizens.
We propose the use of process of Human-Centered Design* as
a guide-line of achieving 3 projects, they all should start with a
specific Design Challenge that goes through three main phases:
Hear, Create, and Deliver.
The process will move from concrete observations about Taiwanese citizens, to abstract thinking as we uncover insights
and themes, then back to the concrete with tangible solutions.
The partners institutions for these residence will be:
-Les Atelier de Paris
-NTCRI
-MOCA
2016
2015
REVELATIONS International biennale of fine crafts and design
Taipei World Design Capital
(WDC), Taipei - Taiwan
Organized by Atelier d’Art de France, the fair reflects the contemporary French and International scene where fine crafts and design is concerned, in a exceptional setting at LE
GRAND PALAIS in Paris on September 2015.
Hand in Hand, in collaboration with the Taiwan Cultural Centre in Paris and the Taiwan
Tourist Office organizes the exhibition THE EXPERTISE OF BAMBOO at Revelations
2015.
The exhibition will showcase a selection
of exceptional bamboo objects, fruit of a
dynamic collaboration between fine craft
artists and international designers.
For Taipei World Design Capital, Hand
in Hand will show case the result of the
residency done during December and
January 2016. Date and place will be
announced.
Paris - France
10th World Bamboo Congress,
Korea
Hand in Hand objects will be showcased in
September 2015 as part of NTCRI France Taiwan collaboration project.
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1st Hand in Hand exhibition at Taiwan
Taipei - Taiwan
The exhibition will be held
at newly built NTCRI exhibition center in Taipei City.
It will consist on a collection of wortk of the last
5 years of HiH residency
program.
Creation of a cross-residency Program
between the NTCRI & Les Compagnons du
Devoir.
Nantou - Taiwan, Pantin - France
The purpose is to communicate through an exhibition the result of 5 years of
cross cultural exchange.
The exhibition will have a strong interactive and pedagogical aspect
and it will be focused, through the objects, on the experience lived
by the collaboration between artisans and designers of these two
distinctive countries.
The aim of this cross-residency project is to share
knowledge, to collaborate and to experiment with the
local materials and know-how as well the local industry.
This project is still in discussion and it will run by the
second half of 2017.
2017
Exhibition at Les Atelier de Paris
Paris - France
Hand in Hand and Les Atelier de Paris will
show case the result of the residency done
during December and January 2016. Date to
be anounced.
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Taoyuan aboriginal community development
project. Taoyuan - Taiwan
This project was born after the encounter with an aboriginal community
that produces bamboo in Taoyuan in the north-west of Taiwan. The
need of a socio-economical development and the lack of employment
have made this community to suffer from an increasing migration towards the big cities, leaving a desolated and unproductive land.
In Taiwan, bamboo craft is held by few craft-artists, this unique knowledge
is having a hard time to be passed on to next generations; therefore there is
not a competitive craft industry, forcing designers to produce mostly in the
neighbor countries.
By creating a sustainable structure that has the basic know-how of working
with bamboo, we would be able to compel the demands of local and international designers while keeping competitive faire prices.
On the other hand, for quite few years we have longing to find a structure, factory capable to produce innovative designs with competitive
prices. We are capable to create a sustainable brand to market these
products in Europe to assure a production.
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Taoyuan community it is a perfect ground to create a new economical model, this project will promote the development, not
only of the community but also of a sustainable bamboo industry.
The success of good development projects often hinge on the trust built in the
communities. This trust, which is developed over time, produces dynamic and
fruitful results. We also believe that the moral test of a society is how it treats its
most vulnerable members.
Our development approach
Hand in Hand would like to promote an integrated approach to community development through a long-term development program in Taoyuan aboriginal community.
Integrated Community Development is not limited to economic growth but it preten
ds to cover a global aspect of life — economic, social and cultural.
Our partnerships
Long-term partnerships with local and
international organizations are at the
core of our project. We will support
and accompany partners through the
development process, providing technical support, advice on management
and planning, mentoring and guidance.
The National Taiwan Craft and
Development Institute (NTCRI)
and the communal JHIH SHAN
high School are key members for the
success of this project; both institutions will be in charge on forming the
future bamboo craft artist.
Hand in Hand Residencies
Nantou - Taiwan
Since 2011 HiH, through its residences, has promoted creative synergy
between artisans and designers from Taiwan and France.
Thanks to the collaboration of our partner institutions, in France and in
Taiwan, we have been able to showcase different objects fruit of this cultural and know-how exchange.
Few of the objects are in production and others waiting to find the investment and/or the structure capable to manufacture them.
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Designers and artisans:
France - Taiwan
FRANCE:
Residence 2014: Emmanuel Lacoste, Marie Prouteau, Pauline Clemente, Michelle Faider, Evence Verdier, Julie Meffre.
Residence 2013: Sebastien Cordoleani, Aurore Thibout, Manon Chaillot,
Grégoire Talon, Anthony Delobre.
Residence 2012: Heidi Winge Strøm, David des Moutis, Emmanuel Lacoste,
Residence 2011: Johan Brunel et Samuel Misslen / Atelier[jes], Cécile Rembauville-Nicolle, Patricio Sarmiento.
TAIWAN:
Wang Kaihe, You Kai Ting, Wu Beide,
Liu Yuqun, Yang Biao, Xu Qiuxiang, Su
Suren, Chen Jundai, Li Minhui, FUJITA
Aiko, Hsiu–Feng Lin, Jian–Cheng Lin,
Jui-Ke Li, Liou Zhao-Ming, Qing-Gao
Chen, Mei-Ru Lin, LIU Chi-Hsiu, MingChing Lin, Chun-Han Lin, Arthur Ho,
Kuei-Fang Lung, Yung-Wang Chen,
Chang-Shi Kuo, Chun-Tai Chen, WuMing Chang.
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Hand in Hand products
TaIwan:
A timeless adventure
«The encounter with Taiwan was a timeless adventure, an opportunity to live the unknown. Focused, from the very beginning, on the island’s craftsmanship and materials, our activity became
an agreeable routine. Three weeks at that rate, few fieldtrips, a weekend off in Taipei and the full
attention of NTCRI team, allowed us to create projects with a trademark and richness of a true
cultural exchange«.
Patricio Sarmiento, Artistic Director
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©photo: Cécile Hug
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©photo: Cécile Hug
Metting the French know-how
«Hand in Hand” offered me the opportunity to collaborate with cabinetmaker Manon Chaillot, formed
among the Compagnons du Devoir. This was for me an unique occasion to explore the French technique of marquetry and to combine with the expertise of Ming WU Chang, a specialist of bamboo
craftsmanship.
«The crossroads of these two cultures and the very different technical and aesthetic vocabularies produced a collection scenery, graphics, sensual and poetic objects. I called it «natural jewels».
Chun-Tai CHEN, Taiwanese designer
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Main partners
TAIWAN
FRANCE
NTCRI (National Taiwan Craft Research
and Development Institut) / www.ntcri.
gov.tw
L’Institut francais / http://www.institutfrancais.com/
Located in Caotun, Nantou Countuy, at the
center of the island of Taiwan, the NTCRI, is a
government organization that has three main
guidelines: research, education and the promotion of Taiwanese craftsmanship. Bamboo
processing is one of their heritage know-hows,
but it also has workshops dedicated to the work
of wood, stone, ceramics, jewelry (precious
metals), textiles and natural dyes.
The Institut Français is a public industrial and
commercial organization. Started by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for promoting French culture around the world, with an expanded scope
of work and increased resources in response to
the law relating to the external scope of the
State. The French Institute works closely with the
French cultural network abroad consisting of
more than 150 French and institutes nearly 1000
Alliance française around the world.
Le Centre culturel de Taïwan à Paris /
www.france-taipei.org
Bureau Francais de Taïpei/ http://
www.france-taipei.org/
The Taiwan Cultural Center was opened in 1994,
four years after New York. It shares its premises with the Representative Office of Taiwan in
France. Founder of FICEP (Forum Foreign Cultural Institutes in Paris) member, it fulfills a dual
mission:
- To echo the great achievements in Taiwan
and cultural trends at work in Europe
- Making contacts and meetings with actors
and cultural organizations in France and Europe to offer Taiwanese artists and Taiwanese
culture an international opening.
The Bureau Francais’ mission at Taipei is to facilitate and promote exchanges between France
and Taiwan in the fields of economy, culture,
education and science.
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Resources
2011
2012
Hand in Hand
Hand in Hand
19 %
2011
28 %
2012
81 %
NTCRI
• 1st HiH Residency
• Exhibition and press conference at NTCRI
• International Design Congress-Exhibition
• Workshop on Textile manipulation at Shu-Te university
Kaohsiung-Taiwan
72 %
NTCRI
• 2nd HiH Residency
• Exhibition at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d’Arts
(ENSAAMA), Paris-France
• Exhibition at Parsons Paris
School of Art & Design, Paris-France
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D’Days
12 %
6%
Region Ile de
France
13 %
41 %
Compagnons
du Devoir
12 %
2%
NTCRI
• NTCRI Dir. Hsu Ken-Hsiu visits
Paris
• D’Days exhibition 2013,
Pantin-France
• Hand in Hand exhibition at
Made in Town, Paris-France
• 3rd HiH Residency, Nantou-Taiwan
• “Originality / Purity” exhibition, National Taipei Univerity of Education
NTCRI
Private fonation
NTCRI
2%
11 %
9%
9%
2013
8%
L’agence à paris
Institut français
26 %
Institut francais
Compagnons
du Devoir
Hand in Hand
D’Days
Hand in Hand
Bureau français
à Taïwan
2015
* in red the upcoming events
2014
2013
28 %
18 %
2015
2014
63 %
13 %
8%
20 %
Centre Culturel
de Taiwan à Paris
• “Bamboo Culture” Workshop at
Coubertin Foundation. France
• Conference: “Taiwanese Culture and know-how of Bamboo”, Paris-France
• “Paris - Taiwan” Exhibition at
D’Days, Paris-France
• Live Workshop, Paris-France
• “Carrying the Precious” Workshop at NTCRI, Nantou-Taiwan
• 4th HiH Residency: “Bamboo
jewels”, Nantou-Taiwan
• Paris Design Week, Paris-France
Centre Culturel
de Taiwan à Paris
Institut français
• Taoyuan aboriginal community
development project. Taoyuan
- Taiwan
• REVELATIONS International biennale of fine crafts and desig.
Paris - France
• Conference: Bamboo a taiwanese
cultural
material.
Paris - France
• 10th World Bamboo Congress,
Korea
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Press
Hand in Hand has been featured in the most important press reviews in the field of art and
design , to mention some: Le monde Design, Intramuros, Wall Paper, Leberation, Architectures
a Vivre,
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Les D'DAYS débarquent
DESIGN
Parmi les nombreuses
manifestations parisiennes
dédiées au design, les
D'DAYS, qui se tiendront
du 4 au 9 juin, se veulent
grand public et culturels.
Paris, terre d'accueil des designers
En 2013, Designer's Days devient D'DAYS, avec
une identité redessinée. Affichage dans le métro,
message relayé sur les sucettes Decaux et communication de rue imaginée par les étudiants de
l'école Estienne se font l'écho de cette 13r édition
qui se déroulera du 4 au 9 juin, dans différents
lieux, à Paris et à Pantin. Plus que jamais, cette
manifestation grand public affirme sa dimension
de festival du design et d'agitateur d'idées. « A
l'instar du fes tivai d'Avignon, D'DAYS en tend organiser la circulation de la création », s'enthousiasme René-Jacques Mayer, qui succède à Alain
Lardet à la présidence de cette association forte
de 26 maisons membres, née en 2000 et motivée
par la promotion du design et de ses acteurs.
100 lieux parisiens dédiés au design
Cette année, l'intense programmation des
D'DAYS se déploie sur six jours, avec un parcours
rive gauche et rive droite, qui déborde sur l'Est
parisien où des maisons (comme Chanel ou Hermès), des designers, maîs aussi des galeries (Thaddeus Ropac à Pantin) sont venus y développer
leurs activités. Au total, plus de 100 lieux sont
mobilisés pour accueillir expositions, installations, mais aussi débats, speed-dating et rencontres in vivo avec les designers (A + ACooren, Elise
Fouin, Stéphane Bureau...). Le design sous toutes
ses facettes (objet, gl aphisme, textile, service) est à
l'honneur. Beaucoup de moments forts, notamment dans les cinq adresses que D'DAYS investit le
temps du festival, avec des expositions spécialement organisées pour l'occasion comme Futur
Archaïque au Passage de Retz ou Design (R) évolution au musée des Arts et Métiers.
La Mairie de Pans, qui soutient l'événement, a
favorisé des partenariats avec les écoles d'arts appli-
qués de la Ville (Boulle, Duperré...), des lieux comme
la bibliothèque Forney ou le Viaduc des Arts. Si la
dimension économique est valorisée par les acteurs
du secteur dans leurs showrooms, D'DAYS a le souci
d'asseoir et renforcer sa légitimité culturelle. Musées
et ministère de la Culture apportent leur caution. Par
ailleurs, les organisateurs ont, disent-ils, « densifié les
contenus ». Une thématique (Et demain...) sert de fil
rouge. On trouvejusqu'à des artistes comme Fabnce
Hyber et Marie-Ange Guillemmot, invités cette
année à offrir leur regard décalé.
Des scénographies
de Ronan et d'Erwan
Bouroullecaux
fauteuils édités par
Hand in Hand ou
La Redoute, toutes
les formes de design
seront présentes
aux D'DAYS.
Photos Bcuroullec, Atelier
fies] Ln Redoute
Paris serait-il le nouvel eldorado du design ? Tout
porte à le croire, vu le nombre d'événements qui lui
sont dédiés tout au long de l'année. A la rentrée, on
remet ça avec la 3l édition Paris Design Week, du 9
au 15 septembre. Autre temps fort mais ici la
stratégie est différente ainsi que le discours.
Cette Design Week parisienne ne cache ni sa
vocation commerciale.nisonlienavecleSalon
professionnel Maison & Objet (Paris Nord Villepinte) dont elle est une émanation. « Nous
avons initié cet événement pour créer de l'attractivité et inciter nos visiteurs à rejoindre Paris
pour notre session de septembre, et ceci dans un
contexte de forte concurrence internationale »,
souligne Philippe Brocart. Ce regard très pragmatique n'empêche pas le nouveau patron dè
la SAF1, société organisatrice de Maison &
Objet, d'apprécier l'approche culturelle de
D'DAYS et d'y voir une complémentarité.
Certains crient à la confusion, d'autres se
réjouissent de cette effervescence d'événements. Comme Lyne Cohen Solal, adjointe au
Maire, en charge du Commerce, de l'Artisanat, des
professions indépendantes et des Métiers d'Art :
"En France, nous avons un autre retard, par rapport
à l'Italie ou aux pays de l'Europe du Nord, souligne
l'élue parisienne. Vnepédagogie est nécessaire pour
faire comprendre que le design ne se réduit pas au
seul geste esthétique, qu'il induit a ussi une démarche
complexe. Aussi, il est important de multiplier les
occasions de mettre.en valeur cette pratique. Les
designers sont chez eux à Paris. N'oublions pas que
c'est une ville d'exception en matière d'entreprises
créatives ! «—Laurence Salmon
Programmation complète sur www.ddays.net
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Fondation Coubertin
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