To design a chair is not quite the same as to design information and communication technologies (ICT) and their applications.

ICT design  can  be better understood from the combined approaches of engineering sciences, media studies and design research. Our pluridisciplinary research group focuses on collaborative processes, material productions, narratives, cultural representations that structure the invention of information and communication technologies, services and applications.

Why co-design?

Electronic and computer scientists speak of co-design when they want to describe the way hardware anticipates software and software adapts to hardware, both evolving towards a better integration. Introduced by Isabelle Demeure and Annie Gentes, this concept of CoDesign research spans over the different layers of integrations including social and cultural facets of these new media.

Why co-design lab and media studies ?

Our pluridisciplinary research contributes to the definition of communicating objects not only as physical objects, products of industry, social artefacts but also as media that circulate, legitimate and shape knowledge. Whether we work on 3D environments, distributed architectures, pervasive computing, or connected objects, long term ethnographic participation and observation as well communication and semiotic analyses ground our theoretical and methodological questioning.

Codesign research is supported by a pluridisciplinary team of researchers from Telecom Institute.

Within the framework of ANR and FP7 ICT programs, industrial and cultural research projects, we contribute to the invention and development of new media and we analyze their specific uses and aesthetics.

Team:

- Information and communication studies: Annie Gentès, Camille Jutant (PhD), Marie Cambonne (PhD), François Huguet (PhD), Stéphanie Vidal (PhD), Vianney Colin (PhD)

- Design: Aude Guyot (PhD), Cédric Mivielle (PhD)

Regular collaborators:

- Computer Sciences: Isabelle Demeure, Jean-Claude Moissinac, Eric Lecolinet, Michel Simatic, Sylvain Frey, Ada Diaconescu

- Image and Signal Processing: Gerard Chollet, Catherine Pelachaud, Patrick Horain, Gaël Richard

- Sociology: Nicolas Auray, Dana Diminescu

- Law: Annie Blandin

It benefits from the collaboration of researchers from other institutions and disciplines such as:

- Art and applied Art : Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Nicolas Thely (Univ. Panthéon Sorbonne Paris 1), Cyril Thomas

- Computer science and Network: Eric Gressier (CNAM)

- Design: David Bihanic, Helen Evans, Jean-Louis Frechin (ENSCI)