Expo 2020, an essential reference for innovation and foresight, is an opportunity for the City of Saint-Etienne and the Cité du design to showcase French design.
In 2010, Saint-Étienne became the first French city to join the UNESCO network of “creative cities of design”. Eleven years later, it remains the only city in France to be included in this prestigious circle, which allows Saint-Étienne to shine throughout the world. The Cité du design, the driving force behind Saint-Etienne’s creative district, accompanies all publics in the realities and uses of design through 3 complementary missions: teaching art and design at the ESADSE (Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design), disseminating design culture through exhibitions including the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne (12th edition 6 April-31 July 2022), conferences, workshops, and supporting companies, public establishments and territories in their design strategies, training and projects.
The Universal Exhibition, an essential reference for innovation and foresight, is an opportunity for the City of Saint-Etienne and the Cité du design to showcase French design on the international scene through a day dedicated to the mobility of the future. This subject is essential for a sustainable future, respectful of the planet and people. It responds to the “Green deal” and the “New European Bauhaus”, an initiative of the European Commission to engage all actors in a responsible approach. Let’s meet on november 6 on France Pavilion for an exceptional day around mobility and design. Registration with the link below.
[11:00 – 12:30] Workshop : “Future Mobilities”
We live in a time of bifurcations. The UNESCO Creative Cities of Design network is here to activate cooperation, cultural exchanges and share best practices.
The Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne developed a co-creation workshop about the future mobilities. Come and learn, reflect and create new relationship to the city and mobility under the guidance of professional designers.
Designers & Instructors : Laëtitia Wolff et Camille Chatelaine.
[12:30 – 16:30] Screening of a short movies of Annecy Festival
Come and discover the selection of short movies specially prepared by Annecy Festival for the Cities fortnight at the France Pavilion.
[14:00 – 16:15] Roundtables : “Rethinking mobility”
The two roundtables will bring together professionals with expertise in mobility. The first one will be focused on sustainable cities in connection with the network of creative design cities of UNESCO, Graz, Kortrijk and Turin. The second roundtable will close the conferences with a focus on several local or regional companies that will be on site in Dubai: MND, TAUR and CFL Loire and that are designing tomorrow’s mobilities.
[16:30 – 17:30] Keynote by Hervé Cohen, filmmaker of Life Underground
LIFE UNDERGROUND, directed by Hervé Cohen, is an interactive web documentary and a multi-screen installation installation that invites visitors to an immersive poetic journey in the world’s subways, to meet its passengers and listen to to meet its passengers and listen to their intimate stories. Filmed in 18 subways around the planet, Life Underground takes the pulse of the underground of our cities and the millions of passengers who who travel through them on a daily basis.
Hervé Cohen is a director and cinematographer whose work has won awards at numerous international festivals. He travels the world to capture the spirit of our contemporaries and tell their stories the Chinese countryside, to follow the work of three itinerant projectionists; through the Casamance Casamance in Senegal to film the initiation ceremony through the eyes of a young Diola, or in the United States to in the United States for a family road movie during the Democratic primaries and finally in Benin, to follow the journey of a young to follow the journey of a seven year old girl over a period of twelve years, etc. His work has been produced and broadcast in France (notably by Arte, Canal Plus, France 5) and abroad (notably PBS, United States). He has also been the director of photography for two fiction films. One of them, “Ayiti Mon Amour”, has been shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Films at the 2018 Academy Awards.
His interactive web documentary and immersive installation “Life Underground” has been selected in many international festivals and has received several awards and a nomination as Best Short Form Series at the IDA Awards (International Documentary Association – Los Angeles).
Come and discover the making of Life Underground and the specificities of the creation of an interactive web documentary.
