Saint-Étienne edition 🇫🇷

In early April, The Soft Protest, Digest was invited by the research department of the french design institute of Saint-Étienne “The cité du design of Saint-Étienne” (part of the UNESCO creative cities network) to participate in a series of talks around the principles of “negotiation” for the 2019 design Biennale. Negotiation being a central process involved in the design of both environmentally resilient and culturally dishes and diets, The Soft Protest Digest answered to the invitation with much interest.

The presentation was split in 4 stages:

• 1. An introduction to the collective’s concept of cultural and environmental resilience. (see speech below)
• 2. The evaluation of a local dish “Le pâté chaud”, through the use of the 2nd test version of collective’s evaluation tool. (see video link below)
• 3. The evaluation of “Le tissé chaud”, a resilient version of the local “pâté chaud”, designed by the collective for the talk.
• 4. A tasting of le “Le tissé chaud”.
https://www.citedudesign.com/fr/biennale/