Azimuts Research Art Design n°60

Emmanuelle Becquemin is a artist, designer, PhD in arts and design, researcher at the Plasticités laboratory (Institut Acte-Panthéon Sorbonne), and professor at Esad Saint-Étienne.

Leïla Bouyssou is a French designer who graduated from the École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne, after training in socio-anthropology at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her practice is rooted in a territorial approach to design, attentive to local and forgotten resources. For several years, she has been conducting research on sheep’s wool, particularly exploring its agricultural applications. In residence at ARCADE – Design à la campagne (Burgundy), she focuses her research on an alternative material, wool, for mulching market garden beds. She initiated a workshop entitled Transforming Wool to consider new tools for transforming fibre, and participated in the Wool and Habitat programme (Parc des Causses du Quercy). In 2025, she continued her work with the project En rang d’oignons supported by the Ateliers Médicis, and joined the Design Matters Lab program to experiment with a mycelium-based bio-material.  

An art historian and graduate of the École du Louvre, Indiana Collet-Barquero teaches history and design theory at Ensad Limoges and has participated in the Master’s programme in Contemporary Creation and Cultural Industries with the Faculty of Human Sciences in Limoges since its foundation. Her research addresses questions that are likely to establish an epistemology of research in Art and Design schools. She also participates in numerous juries and scientific committees (recently AD·Rec Faire, encore 2024/25, Saint-Étienne International Design Biennale 2025, Partager. Esthétique Ordinaire et Gestes Collectifs International Conference, January 2024, Université Paris 1 Sorbonne). She has been a nationally elected member of the Evaluation Commission responsible for the body of professors of national higher art schools since 2016, and of the CNESERAC (National Council for Higher Education and Research in Arts and Culture) since 2023. She also works as co-editorial director of the research journal l’Albert·e, published by Ensad Limoges.

Gabriele Colombo is a researcher at the Department of Design at the Politecnico di Milano. He previously held postdoctoral positions at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London, IUAV University of Venice, and the Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the co-author, along with Sabine Niederer, of Visual Methods for Digital Research (Polity, 2024). He is affiliated with the Visual Methodologies Collective at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In 2018, he received a PhD in Design from the Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include information visualisation, communication design, and visual methods for social media analysis.

Margaux Crinon is an associate professor and interaction designer. She practices exploratory design at the Labo•mg workshop, offering projects and workshops that question our environmental perceptions through aesthetic and digital practices. She is currently a doctoral student in Design at the University of Strasbourg affiliated with ACCRA (ED 520 UR 3402) within the Visual Cultures group, under the co-directions of Vivien Philizot and Stefan Kristensen and the supervision of Nolwenn Maudet in HCI, and Caroline Habold of the IPHC in Ecology. Behind the title wwwired wilderness, she proposes to question the place of digital mediators in our relations with wildlife, through a study of the technical apparatuses of design that develop and organise spaces for encounters with wildlife, as well as the resulting imagery. She has been teaching at the University of Strasbourg, in the Master’s Degree in Digital Environments since 2022, as well as in the Bachelor’s in Design. Before that, she taught interactive design at the Villefontaine School of Design. There, she led various art+science workshops exhibited at the Mirage Festival in Lyon, and developed a body of Design Ecologies courses for the Higher Diploma in Applied Arts.

Alex Delbos-Gomez is a design researcher and ceramic artist based in Paris. He develops research on modernity based on the notion of "sedimentary baroque", a conceptual framework that explores the layering of narratives, materials, and forms as a critical strategy. His work questions the legacy of a Western baroque, exported by colonisation and then reappropriated as a language of resistance. Through his pieces, which combine ceramics, everyday objects, architectural references, and digital infrastructures, he offers a reading in which ornament and formal chaos are invited to the heart of standardised contemporary systems.

Simone Fehlinger is a designer-researcher, a lecturer at Esad Saint-Etienne, a PhD candidate in visual studies at the University of Strasbourg (UR ACCRA) and in media studies at the University of Potsdam.

Ernesto Oroza is an artist, designer, researcher, and professor at Esad Saint-Étienne.

Adrien Payet studies, practices, and teaches philosophy, design, and web development. A former member of the Bam collective and the Praticable studio, he co-founded the Variable studio in 2025 with designer and researcher Julie Blanc, dedicated to interface design and digital tools, from conception to production. He co-edits the editorial platform actuel-inactuel.fr, dedicated to critical approaches to arts and technology. After teaching in several establishments, he now teaches Design Theory at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI) and the École des Arts de la Sorbonne (Université Paris 1).

Émilie Perotto practices sculpture, holds a PhD in the practices and theory of artistic and literary creation (Aix-Marseille University/ESADMM) and is a professor at Esad Saint-Étienne.

During a stay in Belgium, Cécile Poulat encountered a specific material whose history confirmed her intuitions. Each object or material is indeed made up of multiple sentimental or historical layers of stories. Driven by the meaning that production can take on in an overloaded world, she obtained a DNSEP Contemporary Art and Contemporary Design at ESADSE in 2024, and continued her explorations of the object-space in a desire to bring these buried stories to light. Through various plastic means, she seeks to weave (or reweave) the links between the human and material worlds, in order to rediscover a certain connection to reality. Her process involves Doing, where investigation, encounter, and displacement are at the source of each of her projects.

Davide Marcianesi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Milan. His practice focuses on artistic and scientific research in which he uses speculative design and devises ephemeral installations. His projects focus on the study of death, necropolitics, complex interhuman relationships, other species and ecosystems, from both a postnatural and posthuman perspective. He was selected in 2025 to be part of Organismo, an independent research platform co-organised by the TBA21 Academy and the Museo Nazionale Thyssen-Bornemisza. In recent years, he has collaborated with the Institute for Postnatural Studies (Madrid), Umanesimo Artificiale (Fano), and 2050+ (Milan) on projects related to these themes. His works have been featured in the exhibitions we? (curated by the Institute for Postnatural Studies, Matadero, Madrid, 2023), Nel Profondo Dell’Animo (curated by Federica Intraligi, ACRE Hub, Milan, 2023), Stand Alone (curated by Casa Capra, ArtVerona, 2022), wet (by the -ness collective, Aarduork, Venice, 2022), Fantastic Institutions (curated by Linda Di Pietro, BASE, Milan, 2022) and ISIT.exhi#001 (curated by Arianna Desideri, Spazio In Situ, Rome, 2021).

Donato Ricci is head of design research at Sciences Po’s médialab, where he designs research devices that bridge the gap between design and the social sciences. After contributing to the creation of the DensityDesign Lab at the Politecnico di Milano, he joined Bruno Latour’s AIME project at the médialab. His current research explores, through experimental and situated approaches, environmental (Naturpradi, Future-Obs) and computational (Cosy/Flat, Algoglitch, Shaping AI, Ecologies of LLMs) transformations, questioning forms of engagement, collaborative practices, and the political issues associated with technologies and environments. He teaches at Sciences Po, the EHESS, the University of Aveiro, and SPEAP – École des arts politiques. His work has been exhibited internationally, published in various books, and recognised by several awards, including Malofiej, Filaf, and the ADI Design Index.

I was born in 2000 in Saint-Étienne and work in Paris. I graduated from the École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne in 2024. My practice is mainly based on sculpture using materials such as wood, stone, metal, and ceramics, all of which are most often assembled in a composite manner. I usually address notions such as travel, entropy, and memory. A 2025 winner of the Galeries Nomades at the Institut d’art contemporain de Villeurbanne, I am currently working on my first solo exhibition, presented at the Maison Forte de Hautetour in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, entitled Tendre vitriol.

Pedro G. Romero has been working as an artist since 1985. He was part of the UNIA arteypensamiento project and was a member of the PRPC (Platform for Reflection on Cultural Policy) in Seville. He is a member of the pie.fmc team (Independent Platform for Studies on Modern and Contemporary Flamenco). He participated in the documenta 14 from Athens/Kassel with choreographer Israel Galván and musician Niño de Elche. He directs the "Flamenco y cultura popular" collection of the Athenaica publishing house. Between 2020 and 2022, he directed the films Nueve Sevillas and Siete Jereles. In 2021, he wrote Wittgenstein, los gitanos y los flamencos published by Arcadia. In 2022, the Art Centre of the Reina Sofia National Museum in Madrid presented a retrospective exhibition of his work under the title Máquinas de trovar. In 2023, as a commissioner, he presented Popular at the IVAM, in Valencia (Kadist, Paris).   The translation proposed by Ernesto Oroza respects the original in terms of inclusiveness.  

Morgane Rousseau, 25, Product Designer. Trained at Esad Saint-Étienne, I built my career around a DNA (Diplôme National d’Art / National Diploma in Art) in Object/Graphic/Digital, followed by a DNSEP (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique / National Higher Degree in Visual Expression) in Object Design. My practice is based on a multidisciplinary approach to design, mixing poetic and graphic approaches, with attention paid to materials and their environmental impacts. Driven by an experimental approach, I explore new ways of thinking about uses, forms and materials, in order to offer sensitive, sustainable objects.

Louise Wambergue-Gouble is a doctoral student in Graphic Design and Visual Studies at the University of Strasbourg. She is a member of UR 3402 – ACCRA, in the Visual Cultures research area. Her research aims to demonstrate the profound relationship between images and trust, particularly in the relationship between an institution and its users. In her thesis, she uses the paradigmatic case of the banknote to explain this relationship and establish the concept of fiduciary graphics i.e.banknote graphics.