Conference by Éric Chevalier & Anne Masson, textile designers, with Simon Givelet, architect and researcher

mardi 25 novembre 2025
à 13:00
conférence
amphithéâtre

This is a conference on trans-disciplinary thermal research-action involving architecture, engineering, textile design, history and sociology, articulating academic and bibliographical research, reversible prototyping and in situ analysis.

The discussion will highlight the exchanges already underway between Atelier Chevalier Masson and Simon Givelet, of the Zerm association; it will evoke the natural complicity of textiles with architecture and present Zerm's "Mémoires du Futur" project, as well as the launch of a research program at the Clarisses monastery, combining instrumentation, frugal comfort and heritage rehabilitation. The aim is to inform a shared design culture and related practices, bringing together the decorative arts, engineering sciences, sociology and architecture.

Éric Chevalier is a textile designer. Born in Nantes in 1974, he obtained a DSAA in textile design in Roubaix in 1996. He investigates and creates original modes of implementation. Since 2005, he has taught in the "Printing and Textile Finishing" workshop at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels. He co-founded the Chevalier Masson studio in 2006.

Anne Masson is also a textile designer. Born in Lausanne in 1969, she holds a Master's degree from ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels (1993), where she currently teaches and coordinates the Master's cycle in textile design. She was awarded the Swiss Federal Prize for Culture in 1993, 1995 and 1997.

The Chevalier Masson studio examines textiles in different contexts as a medium linked to intimate and collective issues. Stimulated by transdisciplinary practices, it collaborates with architects, designers and artists, combining strong technical constraints with plastic, ethical and sensitive dimensions to influence the effective and affective qualities of inhabited spaces. Their work can be found in private and public collections: Centre d'Innovation et de Design du Grand Hornu, B - Design Museum, Ghent, - Musée Mode et Dentelles, Brussels - Centre National d'Arts Plastiques, Paris - the Barbier-Mueller collection in Geneva.

Simon Givelet is an architect who teaches at the Camondo School in Paris and ENSAP in Lille. He is also co-founder of the country architecture cooperative Œuvrer en 2021 and of the associations Zerm and Saisons Zéro (manager of the experimental project for the Clarisses monastery in 2024). Born in Grenoble in 1990, Simon Givelet graduated from Grenoble's IUT de Génie Civil in 2010 and from Lille's École d'architecture et de paysage in 2018. In 2015, he helped found the Zerm architecture association, which aims to produce and disseminate knowledge related to rehabilitation techniques. Zerm is structured around a variety of architectural projects that step by step define his relationship to rehabilitation and reuse, focusing in particular on the repurposing of neglected constructive techniques, materials and objects considered waste.

Cycle
Proposed by architects and teachers Anne Klépal and Philippe Vander Maren, the Tuesday Lessons cycle About authorship & collaborations explores architecture as a collective and transdisciplinary practice, where hybridization and multiple collaborations redefine in depth the making of the project and our ways of inhabiting the world.