PUISSANT.CH
I am a Designer and Researcher based in Lausanne, Switzerland. I envisage the design practice with a holistic mindset, and I consider myself as someone “that makes things happen”. Hence, I don’t like to be labeled, or put in a box: I prefer to define myself as someone that imagines, explores, questions, reflects, and turns ideas into real things.
Hence, I am always open to new and disruptive approaches, and willing to complement and reframe my understanding in order to get things done. To do so, I can count on a diverse and unique background.
My unusual curriculum - a Bachelor of Arts at ECAL, followed by a MAS at EPFL - allowed me to explore, develop and merge seemingly opposite but complementary postures: a creative-disruptive one, and a analytic-rational one.
Through my career, I was able to fully leverage from these competencies, but also to build a diverse technical and methodological know-how - ranging from interaction design to programming, including electronics, audiovisual production, prototyping, but also scientific papers redaction or qualitative and quantitative research - as well as soft and transversal skills such as reliability, integrity or flexibility, but also empathy, mediation and coordination.
My various academic, professional and personal experiences led me to decline my practice according to numerous interests, such as sustainabilty, pedagogy, interdisciplinarity and counterculture.
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PUISSANT.CH
I am a Designer and Researcher based in Lausanne, Switzerland. I envisage the design practice with a holistic mindset, and I consider myself as someone “that makes things happen”. Hence, I don’t like to be labeled, or put in a box: I prefer to define myself as someone that imagines, explores, questions, reflects, and turns ideas into real things.
Hence, I am always open to new and disruptive approaches, and willing to complement and reframe my understanding in order to get things done. To do so, I can count on a diverse and unique background.
My unusual curriculum - a Bachelor of Arts at ECAL, followed by a MAS at EPFL - allowed me to explore, develop and merge seemingly opposite but complementary postures: a creative-disruptive one, and a analytic-rational one.
Through my career, I was able to fully leverage from these competencies, but also to build a diverse technical and methodological know-how - ranging from interaction design to programming, including electronics, audiovisual production, prototyping, but also scientific papers redaction or qualitative and quantitative research - as well as soft and transversal skills such as reliability, integrity or flexibility, but also empathy, mediation and coordination.
My various academic, professional and personal experiences led me to decline my practice according to numerous interests, such as sustainabilty, pedagogy, interdisciplinarity and counterculture.
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Education
MAS
EPFL / 2019
Design Research for Digital Innovation
BA
ECAL / 2015
Media & Interaction Design
Career
UX Designer & Researcher
CleanGreens Solutions SA / 2023 - present
Design of a crop management app for a mobile aeroponic system.
Implementation of a Helpdesk to reinforce the client support strategy.
Scientific Collaborator
EPFL, College of Humanities / 2019 - 2022
Design of pedagogical tools and contents for the EPFL community.
Facilitation in various design courses in Switzerland, India and Korea.
Art-Science Facilitator
STARTS Residencies / 2017 - 2020
Facilitation of art-science residencies in labs and companies across Europe.
Interviews with stakeholders, contracts drafting, documentation.
Research Assistant
EPFL+ECAL Lab / 2017 - 2019
Writing of a research project on art-science interactions in an innovation perspective.
Various interaction design projects involving VR, AR and blockchain.
UX / UI Designer
Teleport / 2017
Design of “Teleports” (interactive videos) for various customers.
Frontend coding of specific elements of the tool, UX and UI discussions.
Art Director
Passe à la Trap / 2014-2017
Branding, design of flyers and posters for an audiovisual artistic collective.
Motion Design for VJing purposes, and live audiovisual shows (as a VJ).
Interaction Designer
fabric.ch / 2015-2016
Internal researches and experimentations with 3D printing.
Design, printing, coding and implementation of atmospheric sensing modules.
Motion Designer
Sigmasix / 2013
Motion design and prototyping for numerous customers.
Maintenance of interactive installations in various locations.
Graphic Designer
Philip Morris International / 2011
Implementation of the graphic chart on various packagings.
Graphic design proposals in order to complement the chart.
Publications
Swiss Design Network
2021
“Bridging the Skills Gap of Engineering Students to Engage with 21st Century Challenges:
A Designer’s Approach” with Marius Aeberli & Marc Laperrouza
SEFI
2020
“Developing a Self-Assessment Tool for Engineering Students
Engaged in
Open-Ended
Projects
with a Human-Centered Design Approach” with Marius Aeberli & Marc Laperrouza
SIGGRAPH
2019
“Artist Residencies for Innovation: Development of a Global Framework“
with Nicolas Henchoz, Hugues Vinet, Ana Solange Leal & Tania Moreira
Awards
EXECAL Award
ECAL / 2015
Price awarded to a student for the excellence of his Bachelor Thesis.