Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota looks back at the France-Portugal 2022 Season

Opened in February 2022, the France-Portugal 2022 Season, implemented by the Institut français for the French part, comes to an end. Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Président of the Season, looks back to the past 9 months. 

Published on 25/10/2022

  • Interview
  • Architecture
  • Visual arts
  • Photography
  • Cinema
  • Public debate
  • Sciences
  • Design
  • French language
    • Book
    • Graphic novel
    • Fashion
    • Gastronomy
    • Music
    • Digital creation
    • Theatre
    • Dance
    • Street Arts / Circus / Puppetry

Alexandre Humbert

"Il est possible que ça fonctionne", a film by director and conceptual designer Alexandre Humbert, was conceived for the 2021 edition of France Design Week. This international, annual and global event aims to promote French design innovation and expertise in all its diversity, while raising public...

Updated on 31/03/2022

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  • Cinema
  • Design

Adeline Rispal

The architecture firm Ateliers Adeline Rispal and its partners (Si/Studio Irrésistible, graphic design, Les éclaireurs, lighting design, Innovision, multimedia engineering consulting) have designed the scenographic and artistic arrangements of various spaces in the Justus Lipsius and Europa...

Updated on 17/01/2022

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  • Architecture
  • Design
  • Arts & Crafts

Hervé Lemoine

Hervé Lemoine, who was reappointed as head of the Mobilier National in February 2021, believes that the mission of this institution, which is several hundred years old, is to pass on a certain know-how and to train the younger generation in the art and design professions. As part of the French...

Updated on 10/01/2022

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  • Design
  • Arts & Crafts

Caroline Naphegyi & Sam Baron

Caroline Naphegyi is the director of Design for Change, a member of the artistic committee of the national stimulus plan for young creation and former director of programming for Lille Metropole World Design Capital 2020. Sam Baron is a creative director and designer. Together, they have developed...

Updated on 29/07/2021

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Ruedi & Vera Baur

Ruedi Baur trained as a graphic designer and has worked with many institutions including the Centre Pompidou, for which he designed the signage and graphic identity in 2000. He and Vera Baur-Kockot, the sociologist who specialises in visual anthropology, have created the Civic City institute and...

Updated on 25/05/2021

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  • Architecture
  • Design

Catherine Geel

How can design solve environmental issues? This is the question that Catherine Geel wanted to address in the French section of the XXII Milan Design Triennial, which opened its doors on 1st March. Meet this historian, an editor and researcher from the Design Research Centre, who is curating the...

Updated on 07/03/2019

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  • Design