Guest of honour at Design Week Mexico from 10 October to 5 November 2023, France was able to highlight its rich and avant-garde design tradition in a collaboration between the French Embassy in Mexico – Institut français of Latin America (IFAL), the organisation Mexico Territorio Creativo, the...

Attached to the defence of local values, Mamou Daffé is the head of several organisations and events in Mali. In particular, he directs the Centre Culturel Kôrè in Ségou, a partner of the Institut français for the ACP-EU Culture programme: Support for the Culture and Creation sectors in West Africa...

From 18 April to 13 May 2023, Constance Guisset is presenting Surprise Party, a retrospective exhibition at the Institut français de Milan. 

Opened in February 2022, the France-Portugal 2022 Season, implemented by the Institut français for the French part, comes to an end. Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Président of the Season, looks back to the past 9 months. 

Alongside Juliette Gelli and Romain Guillet, Pablo Bras has designed the exhibition Situations, stratégies pour habiter l’instable, phénomènes, évènements, coïncidences. With the support of the Institut français, It is France's contribution to the 23rd exhibition of decorative arts and modern...

Planned for 2022, the France-Portugal Season will bring together artists, thinkers and scientists from both countries around common themes. As part of the Portuguese and French presidencies of the Council of the European Union (Portugal's rotating presidency in the first half of 2021 and France's in...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this second part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, speaks about the Creative Europe programme, support for the...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this first part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, discusses the role of culture in the political priorities of the...

Andrew Manning is the Director of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). With members in every EU country and over 133 ‘Clusters’ worldwide the organisation believes in the power of culture to build trust and understanding between countries. Within the framework of the French...

"Il est possible que ça fonctionne", a film by director and conceptual designer Alexandre Humbert, was conceived for the 2021 edition of France Design Week. This international, annual and global event aims to promote French design innovation and expertise in all its diversity, while raising public...

The architecture firm Ateliers Adeline Rispal and its partners (Si/Studio Irrésistible, graphic design, Les éclaireurs, lighting design, Innovision, multimedia engineering consulting) have designed the scenographic and artistic arrangements of various spaces in the Justus Lipsius and Europa...

Hervé Lemoine, who was reappointed as head of the Mobilier National in February 2021, believes that the mission of this institution, which is several hundred years old, is to pass on a certain know-how and to train the younger generation in the art and design professions. As part of the French...

Caroline Naphegyi is the director of Design for Change, a member of the artistic committee of the national stimulus plan for young creation and former director of programming for Lille Metropole World Design Capital 2020. Sam Baron is a creative director and designer. Together, they have developed...

Ruedi Baur trained as a graphic designer and has worked with many institutions including the Centre Pompidou, for which he designed the signage and graphic identity in 2000. He and Vera Baur-Kockot, the sociologist who specialises in visual anthropology, have created the Civic City institute and...

How can design solve environmental issues? This is the question that Catherine Geel wanted to address in the French section of the XXII Milan Design Triennial, which opened its doors on 1st March. Meet this historian, an editor and researcher from the Design Research Centre, who is curating the...