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Five designer from Saint-Etienne were present for the First Shenzhen Design week from 21 to 28 April 2017 on the thematic “Design for the future”: Fabien Barrero- Carsenat, Alix Briffaud, Cahen & Gregori, Bruno Lefebvre and Philippe Moine.
Chosen by the City of Design to represent the city of Saint-Etienne, their objects were shown at the flagship exhibition “Cities of Design” organized by the Shenzhen City of Design Promotion Association (SZDPA), which brought together, industrial design and textile design of UNESCO Creative...
Saint-Etienne, a UNESCO Creative City of Design, chose Detroit, its counterpart designated in 2015, as the guest of honor of the 10th International Design Biennial of Saint-Etienne, held from 9 March to 9 April 2017.
Three exhibitions have been organized by Detroit Creative Corridor Centre, Public Design Trust, Akoaki and Creative Many Michigan: “Footwork”, “Out of Site” and “ShiftSpace”. Panel discussions, music performances, discussions with designers and local actors, workshops and conversations in the Detroit-style coffee shop were...
The tenth edition of the Biennale Internationale Design of Saint-Étienne will be held from 9 March to 9 April 2017 in Saint-Étienne (France). Organized by the Cité du design, the Biennale will focus on the general theme “Working Promesse, Shifting work paradigms”.
Since its first edition in 1998, the Biennale Internationale Design of Saint-Étienne, has gained an international reputation in the field of design, attracting an annual audience of more than 200,000. The aim is to reveal the current state of design and creativity in the...
Saint-Étienne and Seoul lead together the “Designing designers for tomorrow”, a one-year project building a common reflection platform of Design Higher Education and Research between the two Creative Cities of Design. More especially, it aims at sharing expertise and developing the international career of Design students and researchers.
In this context, a programme of exchanges, workshops, conferences, and common publications between Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design ESADSE, and Seoul Kookmin University, put the...
From 18 to 20 of July, Saint-Étienne will invite the designer Kanako Yamauchi from Kobe to carry-out a design workshop called the “Hybridisation of cultures” for children from 8 to 11 years old at the Espace Boris Vian of Saint-Étienne in cooperation with Kaksi Design.
As part of the Network, the Cité du design of Saint-Étienne and the Centre of design and creativity of Kobe (KIITO) have launched a cooperation programme in 2015 and 2016. In February 2015, Kobe invited the studio Kaksi Design – Élodie Vichos and Guillaume...
Saint-Étienne and Nagoya, both Creative Cities of Design, have undertaken in June 2015 an inter-city project for two textile designers to meet: Maki Takahashi from Nagoya and Hélène Jospé from Saint-Étienne.
This encounter between the two artists has led to a true friendship, an artistic understanding, as well as a fruitful exchange of know-how. Thus, returned to Nagoya, Maki Takahashi has given the opportunity to cooperate with the cultural organisation « Arts Bridge Cities » (ABC) in the framework of a residency...
“Human Cities_Challenging the City Scale” is an European project, exploring the way in which the inhabitants reclaim the constantly evolving contemporary city, through experiments in the urban space. Cofunded by the Creative Europe/Culture program of European Union, it is led by the Cité du design of Saint-Étienne for 4 years (2014-2018).
Amongst the 12 European partners, 4 are representing UNESCO Creative Cities of Design – Saint-Étienne (Cité du design-ESADSE), Bilbao (BEAZ), Graz (FH Joanneum) and Helsinki (Aalto...
In spring 2015, Soichiro Kimura, director of the Japanese association of Nagoya “Arts Bridge Cities” (ABC), initiates the project “Utopia in the Cloud” thanks to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
As a result of collaboration between Nagoya and Saint-Étienne, both Creatives Cities of Design, the project aims to set up an ephemeral artistic creation on the belvedere of Nagoya’s television tower. To this end, a call for projects has been launched to students from Saint-Étienne’s “École Supérieure d...
The 9th Biennale International Design of Saint-Etienne 2015 will be held from March 12 to April 15 2015. The theme of the exposition is “Les Sens du beau” (The meanings of beauty). The exposition offers sensitive experiences through objects, services, facilities and environments.
For this edition, Seoul: UNESCO Creative City of Design is invited as a honored guest city organizing an exhibition named Vitality 2014: “Beyond Craft & Design”, commissioner: Kyung Ran Choi, director of the OCDC, Seoul; the Vitality...
The seven UNESCO creative cities of design assembled at Saint-Etienne’s (France) Modern and Contemporary Art Museum on 14th March 2013 to launch the EmpathiCITY forum aimed at developing a platform for experimentation and reinforcing mutual cooperation. The Declaration of Saint-Etienne sets out the member cities’ commitment to using such initiatives in order to harness the transformative power of design as a tool for social cohesion.