2019 - French-Quebecer Workshop
2nd year of Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design
Each year, two French-Quebecer workshops take place, one in Quebec, and the other in France.
In May 2019, students in 2nd year of Bachelor's Degree in Interior Design travelled to Quebec and attended the week-long workshop at the Saint-Jean de Richelieu CEGEP near Montreal. Autograf had welcomed their Canadian counterparts during a workshop organised in March earlier that year.
Workshops are an opportunity to share both French and Quebecer approaches on an intensive team project carried out on a very short amount of time. These bilateral events turn out to be great moments of socialisation and creativity, inducing extraordinary emulation among students.
Paris
This week-long workshop's task was for students to reflect on and design the layout of the Paris University Campus' Library.
Montreal
The workshop's assignment was to design the indoor spaces of an innovative school. The assignment was all the more interesting since it answered to a real brief requested by a real school. During the three days of the workshop, students worked on their concept, built up their project and models and presented them on the 3rd day to a jury, appointed by the project sponsors.
During their week in Quebec, students had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with Montreal. They got to visit Habitat 67 by Moshe Saafdi, the geodesic dome, now called the "BIOSPHERE", designed by Richard Bukminster Fuller, the historical centre where old buildings stand next to skyscrapers, the Plateau, McGill and Mont-Royal boroughs as well the Place des Arts and the brutalist buidlings in Bonaventure.
