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Post-diplôme Design & Recherche

Created in 1989, the Design and Research postgraduate course of the ESADSE is a place for experimentation, thinking and elaboration of projects based on a wide ranging and diversified vision of design. It operates simultaneously as a laboratory for creation, an incubator for projects and a research center. It is geared towards graduates of higher schools of art and design, to doctoral students and active designers. Among the tools at its disposal is the review Azimuts, an editorial asset designed and produced by student-researchers. The postgraduate programme is open to holders of a BAC +5 or professionals with at least 5 years of experience in the design field.

IRD Le laboratoire Images – Récits – Documents (Laboratory for Images-Stories-Documents)

These three terms define the field of research within the Laboratoire
Images_Récits_Documents. The laboratory does not specify one single subject of research, its title communicates a desire to approach a field so as to consider its limits. The research operates on the exposition of logic between the three terms and does not pretend to exhaust the logic and issues contained in the image. The goal is for the IRD laboratory to measure and understand the modalities of the image in its current relationship with the real according to the determinations of the story as a field of production for the narrative staging of reality and according to its objective presentation (the document).
The IRD laboratory defines its general approach to research as theorized practice. The research questions the processes and procedures of the image: the field of research that is opened is that of imagenization. Practice is not the result of a preceding theory, it is thought of in terms of successive experiments allowing for the production of concepts. The object of the “image” is thus built within an approach wherein practice does not validate or overturn a hypothetical condition but where it is already a theoretical approach to the image that conditions the conditions of its appearance. The distribution-publishing is then a space of experimentation where the validity of concepts is determined.
The relationship with images currently concerns Art just as much as it does Design. The problematic axes deal with the sensitive visual and visible deployments and have the aim of understanding the place of images if the field of practices. Though the idea is to understand the redistribution of their production and uses, the idea is also to experiment with newer techniques of production of images and to understand how they are determined in, and through, the representation of an ideology. These questions then serve in the construction of unique and original images, integrating the transformation of the relationship of images to other practices of formulation and formalization of the world.
The IRD laboratory team: Kader Mokaddem, Jean-Claude Paillasson, Maurice Coussirat.

LEM The Laboratory for experimenting modernities

Since 1863, succeeding each other as methods of historical and theoretical reading of art have been modernity, the avant-gardes, modernism and postmodernity. But where are we now? Are we still modern? Have the avant-gardes really disappeared? Is modernism still appropriate? Are we all still soluble in all-in postmodernism? Or, has contemporary art defined a new mode that is unique to it? The Modernité(s) laboratory proposes to consider some of the questions being asked here, not for the simple pleasure of discussing the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, but to attempt to rethink our contemporaneity and that which is at stake for its main actors, those that we train: artists.
LEM team: Karim Ghaddab, Denis Laget and Éric Suchère
Associated researcher : Romain Mathieu

The RANDOM laboratory (lab)

The RANDOM (lab) of the Digital section of the ESADSE is a research space dedicated to experimentation in art, design and newer media. Set up in 2011, it proposes to follow a unique path between practice and theory.
In addition to being a resource center, and a work space allowing the creation of electronic installations, the RANDOM (lab) provides access to an “arduinothèque” made up of a selection of arduino systems and associable extensions. Students can in this way have a rapid and direct contact with this type of interface, so as to pass quickly from designing to modeling projects that incorporate electronics. Students associated with RANDOM (lab) also benefit from the range of software (3D, 2D, etc.) and materials (3D printer, digital printing…) available in the Digital section so as to best run the technical aspect of their projects.
Team: Damien Baïs, François Brument, David-Olivier Lartigaud.

Exhibition catalogues

Participation in the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial
International exhibitions
Residencies for designers and artists
Programming of workshops, lectures and workshops during the Practice and Research weeks…
Internships and production in companies and institutions
“Le Garage” student association (sensitization to the world of free/open source in a wide sense)

International relationships with 65 partner schools, with 43 in Europe and 22 outside of Europe
Foreign promotion of young creators and internships abroad

La Platine (Cité du design)

Publishing section: press engraving, screen printing, lithography, lino engraving, offset, large format digital.
Video/ Sound section: digital capture unit, sound stage, digital and analog editing, sound studio.
Modeling section: forge, thermoforming, casting, locksmithing, mechanics, woodworking, cabinet making.
Photography section: film photography, digital photography, small, medium and large formats, studio, black and white film laboratories, large format digital printing.
Digital section: equipped with MAC and PC, 3D software, graphic solutions software, vectorial creation software, image treatment software, scanners, printers.

ANdEA, ADÉRA, ELIA, Cumulus, Art Accord France, Consortium design enseignement supérieur (higher education), Kodec.
Participation in the Erasmus-Socrates LLP networks, Pépinières européennes for young artists.

Yann Fabès Directeur
Valérie Delolme Responsable administratif
Caroline Engel Responsable des études
Justine Duchateau Responsable des relations extérieures
Béatrice Laffay Secrétariat de la scolarité
Hélène Pangot Secrétariat de la scolarité
Bernadette Côte Secrétariat de la scolarité
Josyane Franc Manager des relations internationales
Marie-Hélène Desestré Médiathèque

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366 students and 9 students in Design and Research postgraduate course