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.
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.
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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