From 20 September 2024 to 16 March 2025, the International Design Expeditions (IDE) platform will be making an extended stopover at the Cité du design in Saint-Étienne and presenting the whole of Ceramic Food Route for the first time. Following in the footsteps of the expeditions in Italy, Poland, France, Cambodia and Sweden, the LE DESIGN EN VOYAGE, Ceramic & Food Route exhibition takes the visitor on a unique human and creative adventure. It features 150 ceramic objects born of these encounters between international designers, local culinary cultures and craft traditions.
Five years after the Ceramic & Food Route first took to the road, International Design Expeditions is opening its travel diaries to the public. The Cité du design presents a major exhibition featuring almost 150 objects born of these encounters, workshops and performances in five different countries, from Italy to Cambodia, taking in Sweden, Poland and France. These cultural objects express a new language as they combine culinary cultures, local know-how and the practices of the international designers who embarked on these expeditions.
I see design as a journey, not as a result. We reallybelieve in the word expedition, which implies having an idea of the place where we are heading, but also being ready to cope with the unexpected – and the understanding that that is how the magic occurs.
The scenography is the work of IDE platform members and exhibition curators Mathilde Bretillot, Pierangelo Caramia and Miska Miller-Lovegrove. It is designed to operate as a journey in itself. The centre piece is a 25-metre “Grande Table” with the original pieces made during these expeditions. Five pavilions, one for each country, are moored to this monumental table. They act as a series of stops where the visitors are immersed in these different countries.
This exhibition takes us on an odyssey of design. It isperfectly in tune with the new ethos of the Cité du design’s programming, which aims to offer themed exhibitions anchored in very contemporary experiences.
Each of the pavilions draws the visitor into something more intimate, with a series of documented accounts. Fragments of exploration, stories all coming together to describe the context and throw more light on experimentations, thoughts and ideas. Each pavilion is about new encounters and curiosity, about showing how research takes place and is passed on.
About International Design Expeditions (IDE)
International Design Expeditions organises expeditions during which
international designers collaborate with local enterprises to create
innovative solutions linked to environmental and societal issues. IDE’s
programmes also include events, courses and publications. By working in
an open-minded spirit and in an experimental way, International Design
Expeditions hopes to foster new forms of links between places, terroirs
and people to help forge a more sustainable world that respects the living
planet.
international-design-expeditions.com
The IDE Expeditions
• 14 international designers
• 11 IDE experts
• 12 local ceramics studios
• 8 international educational institutions
involved in the workshops: Design
department, Politecnico di Bari, Italy,
École Camondo Méditerranée, Toulon,
ESADSE Saint-Étienne, École Supérieure
d’Art et Design de Limoges, France,
School of Form, Warsaw, Poland, Sala Bai
Hotel & Restaurant School, Cambodia,
Paul Dubrule Hospitality & Tourism
School and Bayon Pastry School, Siem
Reap, Cambodia.
The scenography
• 600 sqm exhibition
• 25-metre long « Grande Table »
• 150 ceramic pieces
• 5 pavilions (one for each country)
• A film, D’une main, L’Autre by Gilles
Coudert (an a.p.r.e.s production/14
Septembre and Extrême Miaaam co-
production), showing in the workshop area
after the installations
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