ongoing research projects - Centre de Recherche en Design

Types versus standards

Towards new components in design. Historical and critical studies of type in the context of transitional design (1914-2024).

Miotas by Anne XIRADAKIS & Armand BEHAR

This project is about the creation of a collective place for the sharing of food and the production of receptacles. It is inspired by Robert Flaherty’s documentary The Man of Aran, based in the Aran Islands in Ireland.

PIPER project - The Polyfloss Factory by Emile DE VISSCHER

The PIPER project is a programme for a circular humanitarian economy, with the aim of insulating the roofs of schools in Nepal with recycled plastic.

Speculative Urban Futures (SUrF)

The European programme SUrF aims to strengthen the teaching and development of new methods in design.

[Translate to Anglais:] Archaic Smartness par Valentin Graillat

Archaic Smartness by Valentin GRAILLAT

This doctoral research addresses the domestic ideal of the “Smart Home” investigating alternative ecologies to the contemporary model.

Observing, Designing, and Exchanging for Our Shared Soils by Olivier TROFF

This research results from the doctoral research project Popular Landscape Cultures: Mediation and Interaction which looked at prototyping methods and instruments of observation for the collective documentation of the landscape, through soil.

news
07/11/2025 18:00 Chronophonie : 25 years of experimentation and sound education. A special evening to celebrate Roland Cahen's career. +
15/10/2025 09:00 Creating a Common Territory \| Design Approaches Rooted in Rural Settings. First online meeting of the CRD's research seminar series. +
05/11/2025 14:00 Olivier Troff's thesis defence: Guiding, Probing, Rearranging - Prototyping the Collective Study of the XXIst Century Landscapes. +
22/09/2025 09:00 Speech by Emile De Visscher and Olivier Hirt as part of the National Study Day on Design. +