Arts and humanities

Agnès Souchon, director of the ARSH resource center, asked students to imagine the future center using three key words: light / visibility / third place.
 

Three days in CPS mode

The students were guided by a multi-disciplinary team of teachers from the fields of architecture, bookmaking and communication design.

For three days in September, teacher Bruno Poyard.., trained in creativity by PromisingWe helped them to clarify their needs, understand the issues at stake and generate ideas... all the while calling on the collective intelligence of the students and mixing their disciplinary cultures.

Spaces for creativity

They also sailed through the various spaces of the Learninglab Promising (design stage, studios) to benefit from the modularity of premises more conducive to creativity.

Answers to the meaning of place

Four perspectives were proposed at the end of the hackathon. "The aim was not to come up with furniture or an immediate, turnkey solution, but rather to work on the sense of place to imagine atmospheres and uses for the future." Bruno tells us.

Positive feedback

At the restitution on September 18, 2019, Agnès Souchon, resource center manager has been fascinated by this abundance of imagination highlighted by the prototypes created by the students.

Kevin Sutton, Director, ARSHcongratulated them on the fact that "We're asking you to think about student uses, by being a student, while decentralizing yourself! What a great exercise! You've really got to grips with the subject and contextualized it. Your approach is very interesting because it questions not only places but also time, the time of student life, your time when books and collections are less present. For you, today's library is academic, whereas you'd like it to be a place of life."

Student proposals

Hypothesis #1: The resource center as a sensitive experience

• A documentary experience with touch, sound, sight, light and smell to memorize routes and identify spaces.
• Art as a marker of sensibility and aesthetics
• The resource center is the third place where ARSH's DNA is condensed: art and human sciences.

Hypothesis #2: A resource center combining pleasure and knowledge

• A playful journey that combines joy and discovery, disconcerting and reassuring
• Not everything is immediately obvious: informative galaxy ceiling, lighting effects...
• The resource center is the third venue, offering irregular, singular events that set the pace (outside/inside the walls, outside opening hours...).

Hypothesis #3: Canopies and sofas, the tree metaphor

• The specific features of the site are seen through the prism of the tree: the resource center is already located on the ARSH canopy, surrounded by greenhouses and natural landscapes...
• Arborescence of knowledge, network-root-ramification, filtering of light and privacy through foliage, stratification of spaces...
• Comfort for relaxation, rest and daydreaming
• The canopy is the third place from which to gain height

Hypothesis #4: The resource center as a living, breathing place: flavors and knowledge

• Metaphor of cooking and flavors: food processing, conviviality and sharing
• Let the place live, have a coffee, etc.
• The resource center offers a myriad of third venues (inside and outside the walls) to celebrate the living and the spontaneous.