03/03/2014 Lift Conference 2014 – Our report

(Photo Jeremie Lasnier)

We had the pleasure to attend Lift conference 2014 last february the 6th 2014 in Geneva. You can find our short blog entry here and our pictures there. Below follows our detailed report. This conference discuss the topics of innovation and the future from a societal point of view, shifting perspective on the design and technology industries.

This year themes were the following:
• Managing Innovation Cycles – Let Live And Let Die
• Bio Hacking Or Tinkering With Life
• The Futures of Work
• The Sharing Economy Backlash
• Algorithmic culture: new forms of expression
• Translating Traditional Family Business
• Counter Culture Inspiring Industries

From our point of view we isolated three problematics:
• How does our growing algorithmic environment shift our cultural and societal paradigm?
• How do companies and the economy (global as well as local) evolve in our technological era?
• What are the new methods and processes at work in today’s innovation and development cycle? (Lire la suite…)

20/02/2014 Sociable Media @ Lift Conference 2014

We had the pleasure to attend Lift conference 2014 last february the 6th 2014 in Geneva. For this session, Sociable Media was represented by one of our team member who took part in the Lift Experience Exhibition along the HEAD–Media Design Exhibition. A second colleague, Lia Giraud, from the EnsadLab DiiP program (also part from the SACRe doctoral program) gave a talk on the current state of her researches. Lift start-up show was also the opportunity to meet ApeLab and their playful interactive narrations/installations.
We will soon post here our report on a selection of talks and workshops we attended.

And here is lift team wrap-up:
“Every year so many great things happen at Lift! Since neither of us have ubiquitous powers, we captured off-stage stories on our storify & vine accounts. Plus, all Lift14 talks are available as single files on our livestream page. You can also check out our set of short clips by Romain Girard:
• Bio Hackers VS Politicians
• New York Times R&D Lab Worksnop Recap
• Meet The BlabDroid Robot Reporters
• Lego® Serious Play® Workshop Recap
Our photographer Ivo Naepflin has uploaded new pictures on our flickr page. They are published under a creative commons license, feel free to share! And of course, there is also theLift Instagram account. For the visual people among you we also highly recommend the collection of visual and typographic quotes by Geoffrey Dorne and the 78 live-sketches by Hélène Pouille.
Lastly we are collecting all media coverage from the 80 bloggers and journalists that attended Lift, we are now nearing 100 articles.

• Our Lift14 flickR album
• A second lift album from Jeremie
• liftconference.com/lift14
• www.flickr.com/photos/liftconference

More pictures below
(Lire la suite…)

02/12/2013 interviews from the kikk festival 2013

Inside the Kikk Festival foyer.

PROTOTYPING, PUBLIC SPACES, EDUCATION AND HAPTICS

Two members of our team, Émeline and Louis, traveled to the rainy Belgium in order to attend the KIKK Festival. The KIKK Festival is a yearly event that started in 2011. It features conferences, workshops and exhibitions on art and technology for three days in the city of Namur, Belgium. It was an opportunity for them to conduct a few interviews with various speakers. There were based on recurrent themes from the various conferences and workshops of the 2013 edition.
(Lire la suite…)

12/11/2013 Émeline Brulé, étudiante/chercheure

Durant mon master en design à l’ERG (École de Recherche Graphique de Bruxelles), j’ai eu l’occasion de travailler sur les nouvelles formes d’édition et de documentation et de développer divers projets autour du lien entre design et fiction. J’ai par ailleurs conçu et mené divers workshops sur le numérique et la robotique avec des enfants.

Après un an de freelancing, je suis devenue étudiante chercheuse à l’Ensad Lab. Je continue par ailleurs en parallèle à écrire et collaborer avec le magazine Alphabeta, et à remplir diverses missions de design graphique et interactif.

Portefolio
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10/11/2013 sociable media at KIKK 2013

Two members of our team, Emeline and Louis, traveled to the rainy Belgium in order to attend the KIKK Festival. The KIKK Festival is a yearly event that started in 2011. It features conferences, workshops and exhibitions on art and technology for three days in the city of Namur, Belgium. (Lire la suite…)

08/06/2013 Sociable Media at ARD 8 – Nîmes 2013

EnsadLab Sociable Media attended the 8th ARD (Ateliers de la Recherche en Design) at Nîmes.
The Design PhD Student network « Design en Recherche » was also represented by Marine Royer and Max Mollon (check @designResearch_ on twitter for more info). Those two and a half days balanced between workshops, talks and good times enjoying each other. Nice to see you (Lire la suite…)

25/05/2013 Appel à candidature

Nous recrutons !
L’appel à candidature est disponible sur le site de l’Ensad.


Extraits de l’appel à candidature
Durée du programme
3 ans (troisième année).
Nombre de places d’étudiant-chercheurs à pourvoir en 2013-2014
4.
Rappel des profils recherchés
Titulaire d’un Master ou équivalent, les candidats font preuve d’un positionnement mature en recherche par le design. Ils témoignent d’une solide connaissance des enjeux et méthodes de la recherche par le design. Ils disposent d’une première expérience de recherche et de conception avec les technologies informatiques et électroniques. Les candidatures provenant de disciplines scientifiques connexes peuvent être envisagées, en particulier celles relevant des sciences pour l’ingénieur. L’accueil de candidats inscrits en doctorat par ailleurs est parfaitement envisageable voire souhaitable. Les candidats étrangers non francophones ayant une bonne pratique de l’anglais sont les bienvenus.


Pour candidater

www.ensad.fr/rsc/EnsadLab_Programmes_de%20Recherche_2013-2014.pdf

Complément d’information sur le contenu du programme

sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=2614#more-2614

Notre portfolio (PDF)

sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/files/EnsadLab_Sociable_Media-short_portfolio_2013-Web.pdf

Contacts
remy.bourganel[at]ensad.fr
etienne.mineur[at]ensad.fr

18/05/2013 EnsadLab Sociable Media (Formerly IdM)

EnsadLab Sociable Media is an interaction design research group from EnsadLab.

The focus of this research program is on ‘sociable media’ as an interim object in an ‘empathic society’ (J.Rifkin), as a cathalyst of our relationships with people and places. In this context, the invention of new relationship forms is an essential stake, aiming at improving the connexion qualities linking people to information and environment, rather than to improve efficiency or productivity. Our approach focuses on the potential of perception, expression and reflexitivity towards the development of creativity, autonomy, empathy. We’re particularly interested in studying usages transformation and people’s motivations as well as exploring emerging usage forms and their socialization potential, technology being a mean. (Lire la suite…)