Search Speakers: Paris

The collaboration between brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec is a permanent dialogue nourished by their differing personalities and shared perfectionism.

Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, educator, curator and publisher based in Paris. She has fostered design’s creative talent as chairwoman of the Design Academy Eindhoven between 1998 and 2008.

Andrew Shoben founded Greyworld in Paris in 1993. Their goal is to create works that articulate public spaces, allowing some form of creative self expression in areas of cities that people see every day, but normally exclude and ignore.

Born in Sutton Coldfield, United Kingdom, in 1966, Lucy Orta is an artist and designer living in Paris. Trained as a fashion designer at Nottingham Trent University, Orta’s early sculptural work examines the boundaries between the body and architecture, investigating their common social factors such as communication and identity.

Since 2003, 5.5 designers have established an enviable reputation, being awarded the Grand Prix de la Création by the Paris City Council after just three years of business. Far from focusing only on shaping objects, 5.5 designers enforce a conceptual rigour that sees them permanently question their design status.

“My goal is to design jewellery that is so distinctive to the individual, that even if they are not wearing it, one could know who it belongs to”.

Matali Crasset was born in 1965 in Chlons-en-Champagne. After graduating at the Ateliers ENSCI in 1991, she participated in the Milan Triennial, where she presented her project the Domestic Trilogy, in which three diffusors spreading warmth (murmur and intimacy), light (images and memories) and water (scents and swirls).

Born in South Africa, Koto Bolofo was raised in Great Britain after his family was forced to flee as political refugees. Bolofo’s father, a history teacher, was found to have writings by Karl Marx among his teaching materials and was exiled for his supposed “communist practices”.

Product designer Inga Sempé graduated in 1993 from de I’ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, France. While studying she received a scholarship at George Sowden’s studio in Milan and after graduating went to work as a designer at Marc Newson’s studio in Paris.