L'ESAD est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur de la Ville de Reims.
FOCUS / workshops
from 19 to 30 January 2009 • Thirteen students selected on project work from 2nd to 5th year (art and design) went with designers Fabien Cagani and Matt Sindall to Mexico City, to meet their counterparts from the Mexico Centro School.
The group also stayed in a potters' village to produce works in clay. The "totem" was chosen as a form expressing the encounter of two cultures, and stacking as the building method. The work reflects close collaboration between students and teaching staff from both schools, based on the village's living Mexican tradition. Funded by Reims' ESAD, the project was also backed by Culture France.
2009 • Reims ESAD & Paris AFEDAP Partnership. Theme: TRANSIENT/LASTING: how to wear jewellery today? A project steered by Véronique Maire and Frédérique Lucien, teachers at ESAD and Brune Boyer teacher at AFEDAP.
Exploring notions of what is transient and lasting in relation to the body, both through drawing and research into volumes from various materials. The whole gave rise to a project which confronts these notions. The second stage focused on developing and finalising the project through prototypes or models.
jewel prototype
From 15 to 18 December • The Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Reims is about to enjoy its 15th "Crazy Week". For this tradition that takes part in the school of Reims' culture, we will be welcoming ten international personalities of the art and design creation for an outstanding workshop from 15 to 18 December 2008.
The workshops bring together about fifteen students of all years of study, in the aim to create new links. Moreover, we will welcome ten students of Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts on this occasion from 8 to 20 December.
The works will experience the relations between design and space, body, architecture, image and writing. They will sometimes be shown in the city for transient events and will be presented to the public the last day...
The invited creators and their themes: Stefan Shankland, artist, London: "Favourite monuments on the move"; Olivier Guillemin, designer, president of the Comité Français de la Couleur, Paris: "The festival of colours according to Diwali"; Selen Ansen-Lallemand, PhD in art theory, Strasbourg: "The cabinet of curiosities"; William Pellier, writer, Lyon: "The first time"; Katja Gruijters, food designer, Amsterdam: "Inspired by nature: new food concepts like "slow food""; Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet, designer, Berlin: "Creation of a place for a new cult"; Robertas Jucaitis, graphic designer: "Creation of a new style for the future"; Fanny de Chaillé, choreographer, Paris: "What word for what space, creation of a new dramaturgy"; Hadhoum Tunc, soprano, Reims: "Lyric workshop"; Cyrille Hugon, architect, Paris: "a mobile camera obscura".
You are invited to the presentation of the works on the Thursday 18 December: Press reception from 3 pm, public presentation from 6 pm.
For further information, please feel free to contact the ESAD of Reims: T +33 (0)3 26 35 36 40 or virginie.mauuarin[at]mairie-reims.fr
Crazy Week
January 2008 • This workshop at the National Institute of Design, India's leading design school, has a multi-layer ambition:
- Bringing Reims students face to face with India's infinitely rich and varied cultural environment, with the idea that, when exercising their profession, designers must grasp different and often novel situations.
- Immersing students in their future professional environment: globalisation.
- Positioning oneself in the process of contemporary thought on design. Carrying out joint Indian and French research, looking at the capacity of traditional expertise to meet contemporary issues: what form of design against a globalised backdrop, what solutions for sustainable development can be found in traditional techniques and materials... India, which in certain aspects seems to be on a through train from the 19th to the 21st century, is doubtless the country in the best position to provide answers to these questions.
Workshop results illustrate the extent to which hypotheses proved to be right throughout the 2 weeks in Ahmedabad.
Workshop in India, Amélia Boland and Matthieu Pauthe.
from 7 to 11 October 2007 • The workshops are led by about ten French and foreign professionals.
The works are presented to the general public on Friday 9 November, from 6pm to 7.30pm. The presentation comes under the framework of the 20th anniversary of the European Erasmus programme. On this occasion, the ESAD welcomes around ten students from the Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers of Siliana (Tunisia) specialised in the artisanal and traditional crafts (ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, metal...). Some ESAD's students and teachers are awaited in February 2008 in Siliana.
Invited creators:
Pascal Battus, sound designer
Ilka Helmig, graphic designer (Aachen)
Vincent Delpeux, graphic designer and performer
Damien Deroubaix, artist, painter and installation (Berlin)
Hé Hé, artists, interactive installations in public space (London)
Fabrice Lambert, dancer, choreographer
Christophe Le Gac, art and architecture critic, editor
Boris Raux, designer
Kiki Van Eijk, food designer (Eindhoven)
Otto Von Busch, designer (Gothenburg/Istanbul)
 | Crazy Week 2007 |
2007 • The ESAD of Reims trains creators in the context of the mix of cultures and globalisation. The contemporary society suffers from some negative aspects such as the industrial relocation, but has positive effects too, such as the opening up to all the cultures of the world. It is important to expose the future professionals in design to that.
A group of a dozen students supervised by two teachers / designers Matt Sindall and Fabien Cagani, carried a two-week stay at Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, and worked on a joint project with Chinese teachers and students. Different exercises gradually led to an intense cultural dialogue and to the achievement of an exhibition at CAFA in Beijing.
Workshop in Beijing
from 7 to 10 November 2006 • The "Crazy Week" is a tradition which contributes to the School's culture: Each year, ten international personalities of the art and design creation are invited to an outstanding workshop.
The workshops bring together about fifteen students of all years of study, in the aim to create new links and to discover disciplines that are not taught at the School. The productions can sometimes be shown in the city for transient events and are presented to the public the last day. Then a big party takes place...
Invited creators:
Pierre Gianetti, cook
Arno Pirou, artist and designer
Ian Grout, designer, Glasgow
Ivan Merino, designer, Barcelona
Iro Psilopoulou, interior architecture, Athens
Frédéric Teschner, graphism
Guiseppe Marinelli de Marco, designer, Rome
Hermann Diephuis, choreographer, Amsterdam-Paris
Tom Mays, composer, USA-Paris
Martine Neddam, web artist, Amsterdam
 | Crazy Week 2006, "The Birds", Iro Psilopoulou |
from 29 November to 2 December 2005 • The "Crazy Week" is a tradition which contributes to the School's culture: Each year, ten international personalities of the art and design creation are invited to an outstanding workshop.
Each of the workshops brings together about fifteen students of all years of study, in the aim to create new links and to discover disciplines that are not taught at the School. The productions can sometimes be shown in the city for transient events and are presented to the public the last day. Then a big party takes place... - Release of a DVD (discontinued)
Invited creators:
Xavier Boussiron, Philippe Mayaux, artists
Matt Sindall, artist, designer
Alexandra Ackoun, radio journalist
Martin Bourdanove, artist, Paris
Todd Bracher, designer, London
Dryden Hawkins, musician, composer
André Klauser, designer, London
Elie Levy, furniture and space designer, Brussels
Thomas Pinedjian, graphic designer and multimedia, Paris
Jerszy Seymour, industrial designer, Milan
Marije Vogelzang, food designer, Rotterdam
Crazy Week 2005, Low Education Program, Jerszy Seymour
