About


Emma Cogné is a French designer who lives and works between France and Belgium, where she graduated from the textile design department of La Cambre in Brussels. Her body of work finds its process in the revaluation and transformation of used materials to highlight their intrinsic value. The textile medium is for her a means to widen the sensorial qualities that are specific to spatiality while engaging the personal experience of users. By showing the bare structures and layers of our houses, she reveals the unique aspects of matter and color as an attempt to reconnect humans to their built environment. Objects and textiles that she makes articulate transitions between the inside and the outside, opening new perspectives and aesthetic materializations of space. Guided by the desire of making, her recent projects are collaborations that focus on the urban and contextual challenges found on the sites where the works unfold. This practice of the field allows her to enable a dialogue between craftsmanship, art, and architecture and is what drives her everyday research.

Emma Cogné est une designer française qui vit et travaille entre la Belgique et la France. Diplômée d’un master en design textile à la Cambre à Bruxelles, son processus se base sur la redécouverte et le détournement de matériaux spécifiques pour mettre en évidence leur valeur intrinsèque. Ainsi le médium textile est pour elle un moyen d’élargir les qualités sensibles propres à l’espace tout en favorisant l’expérience personnelle de l’usager. En dénudant les couches et les structures de nos habitations, elle révèle des aspects singuliers de la matière et de la couleur comme tentative de reconnecter l’humain à son environnement bâti. Ses créations de mobiliers textiles proposent des transitions entre intérieur et extérieur, ouvrant ainsi de nouvelles perspectives et matérialisations esthétiques de l’espace. Guidée par un désir de faire, ses récents projets collaboratifs se concentrent sur les problématiques urbaines et contextuelles des sites qui les accueillent. Cette pratique du terrain, centrale à sa recherche actuelle, actionne un dialogue permanent entre art, artisanat et architecture.

Education


2016-2018
Master degree in textile design with distinction, ENSAV La Cambre, Be

2014-2016
Bachelor in textile design with mention, National higher school of fine arts Lyon, Fr

2012-2014
Art & Craft diploma, higher school of La Source, Nogent sur Marne Fr



Group Show


2020
Les usages du monde, World design capital, Gare St Sauveur, Lille, Fr

2019
Collectible design fair, Vanderborght building, Brussels
Lake Como design fair, Teatro sociale, Como, Italy

2018
Young Talents, lookbook 2018 award, MAD Brussels, Be
Talents ! finalist of the 2018 Dorothy Waxman International textile design prize Mohawk showroom, New-York
Tremplin 2018, Anciens abattoirs, Mons, Be
Avis de Passage, Graduation show, La Vallée, Be
Torronnées, Marronnées ERG Gallery, Be
23rd Floor, WTCI, Northern Quarter Be

2017
Le lin, une filière , MAD Brussels
Off Design week, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Docks en Seine, Paris, Fr



Experiences


2020
Creation residency at Saisons Zéro
Monastère des Clarisses, Roubaix, Fr
Guest designer as part of ecological awareness program
French High School Anna de Noaille, Bucharest, Ro

2019
Summer school, Portugese basket weaving technology
Michelangelo Foundation & Passao Futuro
Lisbon, Pt

2017
Internship studio Buro belén, Amsterdam, Nl

2016
assistant designer studio denovembre, Paris, Fr
Workshop silk square with artist Nathalie Dupasquier, ENSBA, Lyon, Fr

2015
Internship studio Nienke Hoogvliet, Delft, Nl


Award & Grant


2020
Grant for prototype research, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Be

2018
Tremplin 2018, winner Minister of higher education award, Be
Tremplin 2018, winner TL Mag award, Be
Finalist for Dorothy Waxman international textile design prize, US

2017
Lookbook award, MAD Brussels fashion & design platform, Be


Publications


2020
The design Story, «Textile in space »
The design story, «reimagining design and process with emma cogné»

2019
Through Objects, interview about « Clareira »
Interior design, 10 Highlights From the Lake Como Design Fair
Dezeen, 10 young designers to watch from Collectible 2019

2018
TL mag, Constructing Textiles: Emma Cogné
New york Textile Month, Magalog, vol.3, Talents
Système T, avec le soutien du MAD Brussels & Design platform

2016
NDP (Nathalie Dupasquier) Initiales magazine n°8, published by ENSBA