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Crafts & Design
Crafts & Design
The Same but different program looks at how objects are revalued from a creative angle.
In a world saturated with manufactured items and a complex global ecological context, this program brings concrete solutions to designers interested in the subject. After exchanges and reflections around the responsibility of design-related practices, participants learn how to modify, divide, disassemble obsolete objects to build new ones.
This multidisciplinary programme provides training in the techniques of upgrading raw and processed materials as well as the reuse and reinterpretation of existing objects, on different scales and in an artistic setting
This program takes participants to our wood, metal and forge workshops for concrete implementation.
Designer tutors: Isaac Monté
Craftman: Tristan Colafrancesco
Ma.Na’s innovative teaching is based on the contributions of renowned designers/architects, craftsmen specialized in their discipline and speakers (theoreticians, artists, scientists…) who shed light on, and put into perspective, the creative journey of the training. This triptych, enriched with many other experiences on campus, guarantees participants a complete training combining conceptual contributions and technical learning.
Ma.Na's team accompanies the participants through a range of complementary activities:
A time of reflection and research to document the subject
Hours of work in the workshops as well as on the field
Various highlights: conferences, visits, masterclasses
Individual and collective scenarios
Individual and collective conversations and advices from tutors and speakers.
The program is designed to support the participant on four levels : creation, technical learning, defining a professional project and collective work.
The mastery of knowledge and techniques related to metalwork
The ability to develop and present your work, your practice, your ideas.
The ability to research a subject.
The ability to work collectively.
Access to references, preparation documents, recommended readings, filmography, etc. before the program starts.
Material provided
Technical learning via your own selection of hand, stationary and power tools. Includes : an introduction to the working of these tools, explanations for good maintenance and training on how to use them.
Set-up of your own « technical passeport » combining evaluations and upgrades of tools & assembling techniques, particularly through fundamental exercises.
Follow-up on your work at MaNa, daily meetings, intermediate rendering and collective presentation in the end of the training.
Individual meeting on your current practice, based on the portfolio, allowing to reinforce, correct or orientate different questions.
The work will be a collective work.
Documented and well-argued final project
The acquisition of knowledge and experience during training, the progress of work and the final rendering are taken into account training validated by a MaNa certificate.
Self-taught or graduate of the discipline - the experience is assessed during the admission process.
Step 1: Sending a CV and portfolio
Step 2: Validation of the application by the admission board, which ensures that the profile and the requirements of the training match.
Price: 3900 € inc VAT
Dates : Upcoming Sessions
From 06/11/2023 to 19/11/2023
