Research and innovation

The Collaborative Research and Innovation Program

By setting up at JAD, creators participate in a Collaborative Research and Innovation Program (PRIC). 

Its aim is to support the development of innovative collaborative projects by JAD occupants. Since January 2023, the first creators have been exchanging ideas, collaborating and experimenting until they have designed hybrid projects, combining their know-how, aesthetic, technical and creative universes. 

Once a year, JAD presents a manifesto exhibition showcasing the work of this program.

Watch a video of the first collaborative projects:

Hybridizing art and design practices

by Alain Lardet, design historian

"It's a very recent phenomenon, because it stands in opposition to a situation that has persisted for too long in France, where the art and design professions were really practiced in silos, fuelled by prejudices about the relationship between these professions [...]. 

In my opinion, the program presented in this exhibition embraces some very important issues. Firstly, those directly linked to the human aspect, because JAD is a marvellous encounter between individuals who have broken away from the isolation in which they sometimes found themselves, to become part of a group where generosity and benevolence reign. Then there's a second category of issues linked to the hybridization of know-how, the hybridization of these professions - design, art professions - and within art professions, the hybridization of different practices. In a very free context, each participant is questioned by the practices of others, and develops a new understanding of his or her own medium, leading to a shift in practice. [...] It's in this sense that I personally see this place as a laboratory. Through the magnificent collaborations we see here, we realize that they innovate by repositioning the stakes of their own practices. In this way, we can observe the implementation of original methodologies adapted to each research project, and the hybridization of totally new materials and know-how. [...] 

Clearly, these collaborations are not simple juxtapositions of talents, with one taking credit for creation and the other for realization. On the contrary, we're in the context of a maieutic where the transmission within each duo functions in a totally reciprocal way. And I think that's one of the great riches of these experiments, because transmission is what's most important."

Interview extracted from the video presentation of the exhibition White Pages, presented at JAD between September and December 2023.