Amongst her major projects: “La Belgique des autres”, 13 Belgian designers of foreign origins, International Design Biennial Saint-Etienne; “Fighting the Box - 20 stories behind the products”, co-curated with Dieter Van Den Storm, Centrale électrique, Brussels; “Multiple Plan – Design Crossroads in Belgium”, co-curated with Alok Nandi, red dot design museum, Essen; “Perspectives”, Triennale di Milano. Since September 2011, she has been appointed by Wallonie Design as artistic director of RECIPROCITY design liege (former International Design Biennial), a new platform of design for social innovation. The 2012 edition included “Welcome to Saint-Gilles”, an exhibition on the above mentioned research outcomes.
Jean-Baptiste Roussat is a geographer and geopolitician, currently responsible for the institutional relations of the Etablissement public Paris-Saclay. After witnessing negotiations between First Nations and federal administration in Canada, he broadened his scope of interest to the worldwide emergence of new social, economical, political and cultural patterns, and their multi-scale influence on policy-making.
Marie Coirié is an independant designer specialized in service design and social innovation in collective services : environment, mobility, collaborative systems and public health. She has a degree in industrial design from l’ENSCI/ Les Ateliers in Paris. She is mostly involved in fieldwork for public administrations (regions, department, cities), health administrations (university hospitals, clinics) and private companies (Renault, Alcatel/Lucent). Co-design and prototyping are some of the tools she usually develops, working in close relation with communities involved, stakeholders, and potential users. She teaches as designer-assistant professor in ENSCI/Les Ateliers and focuses on developing creative methodologies for designers to work efficiently with other disciplines (sociology, urban planning, architecture, etc.).
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