Event design is about time and how to make a shortlasting project meaningful. Scenario, programmation, drama, are strong components of the pedagogy we develop, as they are tools to make the students actors of their own projects. Sensibilize, inform, valorize defend, criticize, broadcast are leading behaviours to both personal and conscious approaches of design, regarding political, social, economical, technical and contemporary esthetics issues.

 

Through workshops, partnerships, trips, the projects emerge from a situation where design meets a «compatible» field. The exploration of the relationship between craft and industrial design is also strong as it lies within Boulle’s DNA. On the other hand live performances, happenings, cinema, litterature, contemporary arts are constant sources of interrogation, especially regarding the question of the body and its status when displayed during a Cultural Media-tion.

 

The Event Design and Cultural Mediation class is a four semesters program (equivalent to Master 1) allowing students to experience creative behaviours and transverse practices, in keeping with professional life and in a self-questionning perspective. Future creators-conceptors have to make their way through unexpected situations, face people from different backgrounds, and push the boundaries of the Craft studios to innovate.

 

The project is a place for debate, for discussion, for conflict, discribable as a hypothesis put into practice. How to frame a situation to let see, to let understand, to inhence one to interact or leave a trace in a public space? By which immate-rial or temporary means can one generate a longlasting and positive experience? What does it mean to do research in design and can Event and Cultural Mediation help bring anything new out of it?