Le Gall Apolline

Affiliate researcher, co-founder of the agency Où sont les Dragons. Management science (management and innovation), public innovation, design and organisations.

Research
  • Design strategy and materiality from a socio-technological and political perspective based on the notion of “valuation”: her research interrogates the role and effects of design within complex and immaterial territories including the design of organisations, of law (legal design), services and public action, exploring in particular the role of materality, its integration and use within a network of concerned actors, and the strategic perspective of design. [Sociology of valuation, sociology of translation, strategy, design manegement, border objects, mediating objects]
  • Design and research: Her research is also concerned with the articulation between forms of research and design, whether it is the place of research within social sciences for design projects, and/or the mediation of research by design. These two perspectives open up a space of “research-design” (research-action by design) concerned with experimenting, qualifying or documenting.  [research-action, project, epistemology, constructivism]
  • Design and empowerment: Finally, the third aspect of her research is focused on the capacity of design to make complexity “accessible” and “actionable” for individual and collective actors. There is a particular focus on the notions of empowerment, pedagogy, and mediation. [empowerment, actionable knowledge, pedagogy for design, pedagogy for innovation, mediation]
Biography

Apolline Le Gall is a teacher and researcher whose research trajectory is characterised by pluridisciplinarity. Le Gall completed a PhD thesis on management and innovation, sociology of valuation and the conception of design, which looks at the role of visual representation in the design of innovative services. It is based on a socio-political reading of the process of conception based on the thought of John Dewey (Université Grenoble Alpes - ENSCI Les Ateliers). Following a post-doctoral research project on the different ways design can be mobilised within innovation and pedagogy, she co-founded the research and design agency Où sont les Dragons. 

Her research and practice are focused on the design of services, of law (legal design), public innovation, and organisation. It interrogates the role of design in innovation, organisations both public and private, law, and the pedagogy of design. 

 

Responsabilities, jurys
  • Director of Masters theses at Ensci-Les Ateliers, IAE Grenoble.
  • Head of jury at the DSAA Design de produits x Design interactif at Lycée Léonard de Vinci in Villefontaine.
Other research roles (EUR, ANR, Chaire, etc.)
  • Member of the “Innovation Publique” chair (ENSCI, ENA, Sciences Po, Polytechnique).

Works

Publications
  • LE GALL, A., SAINT-AUGUSTE, S., The four spaces of design practice : drawing from design theory to enhance legal design practice, Legal Design Roundtable, Brussels, Belgium, 2020. +
  • LE GALL, A., La formation des designers au design pour l’action publique : le cas d’un workshop Ensci – CD 93, in Pallez, F. et al. (2017), Rapport final Projet ANR-13-SOIN-0003 FIP-Explo, Programme Sociétés Innovantes 2013, 2017. +
  • LE GALL, A., Les épreuves de valuation dans le design de services innovants : le rôle des représentations visuelles, Thèse de Doctorat en Sciences de Gestion, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2016, 425p. +
  • CHANAL, V., LE GALL, A., Roberto Verganti : le design au service de l’innovation de sens in Cohendet, P., Hussler, C., Burger-Helmchen,T. (dir.), Les grands auteurs en management de l’innovation et de la créativité, Colombelles : Editions EMS, 2016.
  • CHANAL, V., LE GALL, A., Comment l’enseignement du Business Model en école de design questionne l’identité professionnelle des designers , Humanisme et Entreprise, 2014/1, n° 316, pp. 67-90. +
  • LE GALL, A. Usages & mésusages de la notion de « projet » en Sciences de Gestion, Communication à la journée Thèses en design, thèses en architecture : Quel sort pour le projet ?, Journée d'études du réseau Design En Recherche, 2015, ENSAD, Paris.
  • LE GALL, A. Du projet à la recherche... au(x) projet(s)?, Communication à la journée Thèses en design, thèses en architecture : Quel sort pour le projet ?, Journée d'études du réseau Design En Recherche, 2015, ENSAD, Paris.
  • LE GALL, A., Pratiques de représentations visuelles des concepts en équipe d’exploration : rôles et caractéristiques des objets intermédiaires en fonction de leurs contextes d’usage, InnovatiO La revue, Numéro 3 - Les Doctorales 2013-2015 de l’innovation.
  • CHANAL, V., LE GALL, A., Designers’ professional identity when confronted to value creation, 29th EGOS (European Group of Organisation Studies) Colloquium, Montreal 2013, 19p.
  • LE GALL, A., Visualizations at Schneider Electric’s Innovation Platform: examining the practices of project managers with the concept of intermediary objects, I3 -Conference Cooperating for innovation: devices for collective exploration, 2013, 28p.
  • CHANAL, V., LE GALL, A. (2012), The Business Model as an artifact to help designers explore value creation and new meanings, 28th EGOS (European Group of Organisation Studies) Colloquium, Helsinki 2012, 16p.
Organisation of seminars and conferences
  • Soirée Frictions de l’innovation publique : les Métamorphoses du droit, conception et animation de la conférence pour la chaire Innovation Publique. +
  • Design en Séminaire : Organisations, valeurs et politique par le design, ENSCI-Les Ateliers. Séance 1 : Le design dans les organisations : pièce rapportée et valeur ajoutée ?, october 2017 - Séance 2 : Organisations : un nouveau terrain de jeu pour les designers ?, april 2018 - Séance 3 : Designers debout ! Le politique par le design ?, may 2018. +
Taught classes and pedagogical practice 
  • Incubateur de Politiques Publiques, Sciences Po Paris and ENSCI-Les Ateliers. Course on public innovation by design - since 2019.
  • Méthode de recherche pour le projet de design, École Supérieure de Design de Troyes. Course on research processes and tools - since 2019
  • Méthode de conception et prototypage de services, IAE Grenoble. Course on service design - since 2016.
  • La République des Entrepreneurs, Studio expérimental, ENSCI-Les Ateliers (in partnership with CAE Port Parallèle.) Course on organisation design and entrepreneurship - 2019-2020. +
  • Nul n’est censé ignorer la loi, Studio expérimental, ENSCI-Les Ateliers (in partnership with Open Law). Course on legal design (practice of design within the legal domain) for designers - 2018-2019. +
  • Lab, École du Barreau de Paris. Course on legal design for student lawyers Formation au légal design pour des élèves avocats - 2018-2019.
  • Design des organisations, Studio expérimental, ENSCI-Les Ateliers x ENS Paris-Saclay. Course on organisation design in research by design - 2017-2018.
  • Label Design de services Publics, Sciences Po Grenoble. Course on public innovation by design, focused on open data -, 2017-2018.
Personnal website

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