From 26th to 28th March 2018 at the Maison des OpenLabs
Prevention Maif and Atelier Arts Sciences came together with the common desire to tackle the issue of risk, which resulted in commissioning this workshop.
Atelier Arts Sciences, with ten years of solid experience in bringing scientists, artists and other partners together to work on common projects, have taken hold of this theme which raises numerous questions.
The workshop was set up following a text by Marc Rigolot, Head of Fondation Maif entitled 'LOVING RISK FOR BETTER EMBRACING IT'.
An excerpt:
"...In a society of knowledge, transparency and sometimes intolerance, risk is the black cat. The evil to be avoided. Knowing it in order to better avoid or conceal it has even become the regulators' obsession, at the risk of immobility. However, taking a risk is an instinctive, inherent part of being human; what a spectacular and high-risk performance is when a toddler starts walking on two feet after crawling on all fours... Looking back in time, how glorious are those who dared the forbidden, challenged ignorance, pushed the boundaries; Icarus, Columbus, Gagarin, and others. Humanity established itself and has progressed thanks to taking risks..."
Drawing on this idea, we tried to find artists and researchers who could suit best these requirements. The artists we have chosen come from various backgrounds; Circassians who take risks every night, actors who have already been working on the idea of a School on Risk and launched a low-tech project related to, and enquiring about science, and finally artists who work on Virtual Reality with the aim of placing new technologies, that the young are so eager for, at the heart of the issue.
Prévention Maif has therefore offered to young people, namely those between the ages of 14 and 22, to work on this project.
Artists, researchers, students and Prévention Maif employees delved into this topic at the Maison des OpenLabs at CEA for three days in order to devise scenarios, new and innovative concepts. Three concepts have emerged from this rich and fertile meeting between different worlds. You can read about them in the following pages.
Laurence Bardini
June 2018
⇒ COMMISSIONER
Established in 1980, Prévention MAIF is a non-profit organisation according to French law 1901, with the aim to raise risk awareness among people in concrete situations. Since December 2015, it has been recognised by the State as an organisation of public interest,
and obtained a second certification from French 'Education Nationale'. Prévention MAIF operates throughout the country via their regional branches helping to contribute to various issues on risk, such as road security, natural and technological risks, household or everyday accidents and digital risks. They promote educational tools and do field work thanks to the 2,000 volunteers that the organisation comprises, mainly in
education.
www.prevention-maif.fr
⇒ STEERING AND ORGANISATION
The Atelier Arts Sciences is a common research and creativity platform joining Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences and CEA. They gather artists, scientists and more and more firms in joint research projects to enhance artistic creative work thanks to science and new technologies. Atelier also supports firms in their innovation processes
to innovate in new ways as a result of artists' divergent views. Atelier Arts Sciences is part of an ecosystem of OpenLabs comprising ALPS DESIGN LAB and IDEAS LAB.
WORKSHOP ORGANISATION
- Laurence Bardini
Project Manager, Atelier Arts-Sciences
Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences - Marjolaine Raffin
Project Manager Assistant, Atelier Arts-Sciences - Alain Pesenti
Innovation Project Manager
(Créativité et Usage) and Moderator/Facilitator, SESI - CEA Tech
PREVENTION MAIF TEAM
Bernard Royer, Director of Prévention MAIF
Marc Bonneton, Vice-President of the non profit organisation (Lyon)
Françoise Reale-Bruyar, Vice-President, regional administrator (Grenoble)
Dominique Martelli, President of the branch in Manosque
Joseph Morin, Branch Président in Saint-Etienne
Jean-Marc Truffet, Project Manager at the MAIF Foundation
SESI (Service d’Elaboration de Solutions Innovantes) est un laboratoire d’innovation du CEA TECH de Grenoble, qui accompagne les projets de collaboration entre entreprises et laboratoires du CEA. Pour ce faire, les acteurs du SESI sont spécialisés dans l’animation de séances de créativité ou de workshops.
ILLUSTRATOR
Etienne Giorgetti, concept illustrator and facilitator, OpenLabs CEA
Fanny Alvarez, Circassian artist, Groupe Bekkrell company
Océane Pelpel, Circassian artist, Groupe Bekkrell company
Balthazar Daninos, Stage director artist and actor, N+1, company Les Ateliers du Spectacle
Mickael Chouquet, Stage director artist and actor, N+1, company Les Ateliers du Spectacle
David Alexandre Chanel, Digital artist, developer and engineer, co-founder of THEORIZ STUDIO (Creative Art and Technology Studio)
Benoit Arbelot, R & D engineer, member of THEORIZ STUDIO
Stéphane Seguard, Software engineer and illustrator/Storyboarder at Innovation Proposals and Communication Department (DOIC), Innovative Solutions and Development Department (SESI) at CEA Grenoble.
Sébastien Diry, Security engineer at Electricity and Hydrogen Department for Transport (DEHT), CEA Grenoble
Élie Barbereau, Innovation project manager assistant, themes of mobility and industrial systems engineering, product development and innovation management at ISTIA Angers.
Christelle Godin, CEA, Systems Department/expert in emotional sensors. She worked with the Groupe Bekkrell.
SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANTS
Théophile Ohlmann, Professor Emeritus in cognitive psychology at Université Grenoble Alpes
Antoine Depaulis, Research Director at Grenoble Institute of Neurosciences (GIN) and head of the team 'Synchronisation and modulation of epileptic neural circuits'.
Yosra Bouhouche, DPEA Design & Innovation in Architecture, ENSAG
Lucie Serkisian, DPEA Design & Innovation in Architecture, ENSAG
Paloma Mouillon, Master 2 in Hydrohazards at Université Grenoble Alpes, natural hazards engineer, who has already begun work.