If you missed the 5th Edition of PCA's About *Design*
Last week the PCA Community had the opportunity to hear about and experiment with alternative processes. The event, which was the 5th Edition of PCA’s About *Design*, gathered students, faculty and staff, invited to participate in 5 days of talks and workshops about design, with professionals in the fields of Communication Design, Design for Social Impact, Fashion Design, Interior design and Photography.
The public was invited to attend the various talks, including the PCA Talk on March 14 with guest Julie Blanc, graphic designer, CSS developer and researcher currently preparing her thesis in ergonomics and graphic design at te Paragraphe Laboratory (Paris 8 University) and at EnsadLab-Paris, as part of the ArTeC university research school (Art, Technologies, and Creation).
To close the event, the PCA design programs held a final exhibition in the school gallery.
Read below about the talks and workshops offered.
AI and the Shifting Image-Making Landscape
Going once… Going twice… SOLD! For 350,000 euros… On October 19, 2018, an anonymous bidder phoned in the winning bid for an art piece that was created by the Obvious Art Group using Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI-assisted art production had symbolically arrived as a major player in the art market. Artificial Intelligence is changing digital image-making and how artists adapt and transfer their skills to this new technology will be important. However, AI’s arrival into image making is more complex than one might think. In this presentation, we look at practicing AI artists and examine the many issues and questions that their work uncovers. We will also look at how to create with text-to-image AI image generators. We will gain a better understanding of how AI is changing the image-making landscape as well as what it takes to tranfer skills into the new medium.
March, 13, 2023
Talk | Gallery | 13.00-14.00
Alternative Responsible Production Cycle
The talk will focus on the responsibility in finding alternative production cycle in the luxury fasion industry. Nanna Pause takes pride in creating a product of sustainable excellence and in being able to promote expert local artisanship. Her design is drivezn by the passion for exquisite materials. It is itself discrete and aims at optimisation of functionality and perfection of proportion. Her clients, not the garments, are the main protagonists, personalities with an independent sense of beauty. Nanna Pause will explain the process of a production exclusively made-to-order and in limited editions. It is distributed in collaboration with a select groupe of international retail partners or brought direcly to the client at a trunk show.
March 13, 2023
Talk | Gallery | 17.30-18.30
{@media print} A (bright) future without desktop publishing
Did you know that you can design a book in your web browser? For the past ten years, in France and Belgium, graphic designers have been developing new practices around the use of web technologies for the development of printed publications. Situated in the culture of free and open-source, these approaches are at the heart of conceptual, political and aesthetic issues for graphic design. In this conference, Julie Blanc proposes a journey through these areas from the first experimental publications to the most professional practices. Let’s talk about PrePostPrint, Paged.js, footnotes, code and building a community.
March 14, 2023
PCA Talk | Auditorium (room -101) | 18.30
Speculative Futures Paris
Speculative Futures Paris is an open community, a space for reflection, sharing, and networking for those interested in futures and their ability to support current changes: designers, artists, researchers, futurists, entrepreneurs and students. Their mission is to empower communities of future thinkers around speculative design, design fiction, critical foresight, and experiential futures. By crossing perspectives and practices during round tables, disussions, and workshops, Speculative Futures Paris intends to promote and democratize speculative design and foresight as tools to debate and transform the present. Speculative Futures Paris is a chapter from Design Futures Initiative.
March, 15, 2023
Talk | Gallery | 13.00-14.00
Alternate Draping: Challenging Drape by Distortion of our Basic Pattern Block
In this workshop, participants will look at core pattern drafting, explore how a flat sheet takes the shape of a body, and how a basic block is upsetting it. By folding, shifting, slash and speading, using the negative or multiplying, they will create new patterns that they will drape back on the body: a new outline for our flat sheet. Their haunts will be moved and volumes will appear using a very stiff fabric to accentuate the process. Moving away from habits and concepts, taking time to try something else through an alternative process, they will identify new perspectives around draping and the body by transforming the pattern. Participants will be inventing their own magical draping technique.
March 16, 2023
Talk + Workshop | Gallery | 9.30-12.30
Golden Shelter: a New Scenario for Climatic Shelter
In this talk, Martial Marquet will explain how perennial or ephemeral, hybrid and often evolving, the studio productions place the user experience at the heart of each project, and how he considers architectures, furniture, installations and objects as the vectors of a narrative that reinvents social space. The workshop will focus on inflatable architecture as a potential primary shelter, relying on fiction to question the modes of life or survival in extreme climatic conditions and how to respond collectively. The challenge is to co-construc a nomadic sheter starting with survival blankets. Inflatable architectures are essentially ephemeral spaces, and despite their sometimes amusing appearance, they are no less technical objects and require real care in their design and fabrication. The built volume must follow precise construction plans close to the design of a garment sewing pattern. The project will be led by the collective goal to host the whole group and more in that climatic shelter.
March, 17, 2023
Talk + Workshop | Gallery | 13.00-14.00