In March 2016, the LUMA Foundation launched Atelier LUMA, a design and production workshop based at the Parc des Ateliers. Drawing on local resources, materials, know-how and talent in Arles and beyond, Atelier LUMA is rapidly becoming a place where knowledge is shared and exchanged. This experimental platform aims to create conditions for fruitful research as well as the development of new projects, products, opportunities and solutions to problems and questions the Parc des Ateliers, the city of Arles and the Camargue are facing. Atelier LUMA’s first mission, initiated in Autumn 2015 and to be continued in summer 2016, consists of mapping the local biotope to use it as a resource for this production workshop. The experimental work of the Atelier LUMA program will create new directions for artistic research, and engagement with social design, the environment, education and community, aligning preservation with innovation. The project is also a generator for ideas and activities to initiate partnerships and business opportunities of a different kind. Through Atelier LUMA, the LUMA Foundation is creating a research and production tool that will help anticipate and prepare the organization of the social innovation forum “IdeasCity”—founded by the New Museum in New York—that will take place in Arles, at the Parc des Ateliers, in May 2017. IdeasCity is a discovery, exchange and collaborative platform taking place in cities that are looking for ways to re-invent themselves and make themselves heard. In partnership with the LUMA Foundation, the first edition of this series of events took place in Detroit (USA) in April 2016. Another edition will follow in Athens (Greece) in September 2016 and in Arles in Spring 2017. A major presentation of this research program will be organized in New York in Autumn 2017. This summer, the first productions of Atelier LUMA, developed by the students of the Masters in Social Design Department of the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), under the guidance of Jan Boelen, Head of the Masters in Social Design Department, will be presented at La Formation, at the Parc des Ateliers, in Arles.
EXPOSITION
Atelier LUMA
From July 4th to September 25th, 2016
Open everyday from 10 am to 7 pm
La Formation, Parc des Ateliers, Arles
