New Cultural Season at La Platine – Cité du design

From 29 April 2026, La Platine invites visitors to la Cité du design (Saint-Étienne) todiscover a new cultural season dedicated to contemporary design. Conceived as a spacefor discovery, experimentation and dialogue, this programme highlights committed andsensitive approaches at the crossroads of design, art, research and craftsmanship. Unveiled in Saint-Étienne, the exhibition Créer un vase (creating a vase), commissioned by the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap), explores the many dimensions of thisfamiliar object through unique creations blending craftsmanship, industry and contemporary technologies. Echoing this, the installation Topographies du vase presents work by students from the École supérieure d’art et design de Saint-Étienne, resulting from an educational partnership with the Cnap.

The fifth instalment of the ‘Present >< Future’ cycle, the exhibition Brèches fertiles(fertile breaches) is dedicated to the work of designer Anaïs Borie. Through her objects, which lie at the intersection of narrative, fiction and the hybridisation of skills, she opens up sensitive breaches in reality and proposes new ways of inhabiting and perceiving the world.

Finally, Ésad Saint-Étienne is at the heart of two other exhibitions: recto verso (front and back), conceived by the ppdesigner collective, which brings together the projects of the 2024 and 2025 graduates within an immersive exhibition, and Local Tools –Dialogues avec l’industrie (dialogues with industry), which highlights experiments conducted by four designers exploring the tools, processes and imaginaries of contemporary production.

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