Mines Saint-Étienne is participating in the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennale: the “Les matières à curiosité” exhibition and the “Design & Anthropocene: business as unusual” scientific conference.
A new HDR defended at the School.
Discover “Les matières à curiosité”!
The exhibition is open to the public at the Platine de la Cité du Design until April 22. Three installations and related content are presented by the School: Heritage-Materials, Man-Materials, and Recirculation-Materials.
“The relationship between Man and Materials has been woven through encounters and experimentation. Man has an overabundance of materials to choose from and desires the development of ever more specific materials.”
with content contributions from researchers: B. Menu, B. Rico, J.F. Bassereau, V. Laforest, J. Faucheu, and A. Callebaut, ICM student;
with the assistance of students from the Master of Science in Engineering Prospective Design for the scenography: A.C. Chuitel, J. Leterrier, L. Pitarch, C. Potevin, M. Sacchi, L. Simpere
Scientific conference
Design & Anthropocene*: business as unusual, April 11
*a contemporary concept to name the environmental mutation caused by human activity
This meeting is structured around various presentations featuring numerous guests, including Baptiste Menu, designer-researcher and PhD student at the SMS center, who presented his work on “New strategies for enhancing the form-material pairing: Design as unusual?”.
Find the detailed programme and the day’s speakers
A new defense of the Habilitation to Direct Research
Nicolas Moulin successfully defended his HDR on April 9: research professor, head of the Computing and Numerical Simulations platform, SMS center, Georges Friedel Laboratory UMR CNRS 5307, his work focuses on the “Modeling and numerical simulation of direct manufacturing processes, in particular high-performance composite manufacturing processes”. Find out more