About & Contact - Lucie Ponard

I am a textile and product designer whose focus lies on sustainability and material research. Locality is an important aspect of my work. I like to investigate landscapes and materials that are around me, and that aren’t considered valuable. I conduct material and field research, use drawing and material experiments, while theoretical reflection serves as the backbone in the way I work.

Lucieponard@gmail.com

Instagram @lucieponard

Education

Royal Academy of Art, the Hague, Master in industrial design, 2019-2021

Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, Bachelor in textile design, Mulhouse, 2018-2019

Design Academy Eindhoven, 2018

Ecole Duperré, Bachelor textile and material design, Paris, 2015-2017

Ecole Boulle, Paris, 2012 – 2015

Collective exhibitions

Nationaal Monument Oranjehotel, work in display in the garden, 2022 -2023

Pavillon de l’Arsenal, exhibition ‘Séries Limitées’, September 2022

Milano Design week, with ein&zwanzig, international competition for young designers organised by the German Design Council, 2022

Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Touching as a research method, 2022

ART The Hague, the fair for contemporary art , 2021

KABK graduation show, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, 2021

Voorlinden museum, work selected by Hella Jongerius, 2019

Milano design week, as part of Chaire IDIS, 2019

Paris design week- The off, Exhibition ESTorama, ‘Ecomatériaux à l’oeuvre’, 2019

Awards

Funding from Enowe-Artagon, 2022

Ein&zwanzig, world’s finest design talents, 2022

FAIRE Paris: open call launched by le Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris Center for architecture, 2021

Master thesis award: Royal Academy of Art The Hague, 2021

Green concept award: pre-selected, 2021

CV

Teacher in a product design bachelor, Lycée François Mansart, March to June 2023

Designer in residency, ENSA Art school in Limoges, January and February 2023

Artist in residency at Lycée Martin Malvy, funded by PAHLM, 5 weeks, 2022

Designer – researcher, winner of FAIRE PARIS, open call launched by the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris Center for architecture and urbanism, 2022. Research on recycling excavated soils to create glazed ceramic tiles

Editor for Anew Magazine, publication of the master industrial design of the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague, 2020

Ceramicist, intern, Nobuhiko Tanaka, Tokyo, 2019

Designer, intern, Studio Aurélie Wozniak, Paris, 2016

Talks

National School of Art in Limoges, 2023

ESAD Orléans, research day ‘Liga – cohabiter avec le fleuve’, 2022

Lycée Martin Malvy, 2022

Lycée François Mansard, bachelor product design, 2022

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, guest lecturer for the Diplom Colloquium, 2022

Duperré, Bachelor Ceramics, 2022

Stroom the Hague, Design Academy Eindhoven, Master Social design, 2022

Royal Academy of Art The Hague, guest lecturer for the lecture serie ‘No traces left’, 2021

Royal academy of Art The Hague, Master industrial design, 2021

Workshops

ENSA Limoges, 4 days workshop about making glazes with local rocks, 2023

Lycée Martin Malvy, workshop of painting making with local clay, 2022

Lycée Martin Malvy, workshop about ceramics and fieldwork clay, 2022

HEAR Mulhouse, workshop of glazing research with fieldwork materials, 4 days, 2022

I am a textile and product designer with a focus on sustainability and material research. I like to investigate landscapes and materials that are around me, using what is already there as a starting point to design.