Research field
Design of connected objects, data sculpture, and new materialities.
Description
Objects, Crafts and Computation is based on the premise that digital data can be regarded as a material that designers and artists can utilise to create unique, critical and poetic forms: DATA_Sculptures. Through art and design, the research programme explores the nature of objects in connected spaces.
The challenge is to establish protocols for reclaiming data through its physicalisation and embodiment via network feedback on matter. Each project within the research programme gives rise to new creative protocols that form hybrid, interoperable recursive loops, in which gestures, algorithmic form generation and physicalisation are interwoven. Within these chains of operations, each stage constitutes a new instance of the project, contributing to its formal definition.
Through the collective processes it initiates, the research programme challenges certain paradigms of creation (copyright, intellectual property), fosters unique forms of organisation and cooperation, generates reversibility and reappropriation, and advocates for solidarity and reciprocity. Through the coexistence and mutual recognition of knowledge and practices, the research programme re-examines social production through art and design.
Team
Lecturers and researchers at ECOLAB
Caroline Zahnd (directrice), Olivier Bouton, Sylvia Fredriksson, Emmanuel Hugnot
Student researchers affiliated with DSRD
Emmanuel Hugnot, Etienne Mosnier
Associate workshop managers
Virginie Péchard, sculpteur, responsable atelier céramique,
Stéphane Detrez, designer, responsable atelier prototypage,
Students on the DNSEP (second cycle) course specialising in Design for the Commons / Arts, Crafts and Computation pathway