L’École de design Nantes Atlantique

Frédéric Bonin has just joined L’École de design Nantes Atlantique’s teaching team and been entrusted with the mission of coordinating the teaching programs newly launched at the school’s China-based subsidiary institution. From February 15 on - beginning of the first semester - he will welcome the fourth-year students who decided to focus their fourth and fifth years upon "design and cross-cultural affairs," and who are currently doing their internship in China. This curriculum centered upon "design and cross-cultural affairs" is one of the 6 main options fourth and fifth year from which design students will have the opportunity to choose from Fall Semester 2009 onwards. [1]

Frédéric Bonin graduated from the Institut Supérieur de Design de Valenciennes (a French higher education design institution) in 1995. In 1996 he founded Axone design, an industrial design and product development oriented agency that he has been managing since then. Frédéric Bonin has a versatile designer profile since he is also experienced in teaching, a know-how he gained when working as a course leader at the Institut Supérieur de Design in Valenciennes (France), the École Centrale in Lille (France), the École des Mines in Douai (France), the École des Hautes Études Industrielles in Lille (France), the Université du littoral in Dunkerque (France), the Institut Catholique des Arts et Métiers in Lille ((France).

For further information about our programs and design in China, feel free to visit the blog « China design » created and constantly updated by Maud-Andréa Bidet, Coordinator of our subsidiary institution in China.

Notes :
[1] Our institution has just implemented an option-based system in order to capitalize and further the knowledge in its fields of excellence. To do so our fourth and fifth year programs and our research activities have been reorganized around six cross-disciplinary themes :

• “Ethically responsible innovation”
• “Tangible interfaces”
• “New eating habits”
• “Mutations of the built environment”
• “Design and cross-cultural affairs”
• “Virtual reality” (in collaboration with Arts et Métiers ParisTech)

Another main orientation - “New mobility” - should also be added to these guidelines in 2010.