CCE Research Lab

The city of Limoges and its surrounding region are a world-renowned center for ceramics. Its history, along with the strong presence of numerous institutions, research centers, industries, businesses, and startups, attests to this. In this context, the importance of research—whether fundamental or applied, whether it concerns new technical developments or free-form creation—is a constantly evolving field.
Ceramics as Experience, the research laboratory of the National School of Art and Design in Limoges, develops a specific program within a research residency and provides students with
Investing in the ceramics course opens the door to innovative manufacturing techniques.
A center of expertise, the lab aims to be a place of innovation and free experimentation between digital worlds and traditional techniques. The challenge is to encourage the meeting between artists, theorists, teachers, students, technicians around ideas, gestures and tools. Digital technology participates in this reflection, integrating the 3D modeling phase and its printing applications into the design stage.
Going beyond the type, the model, the standard
imposed by tradition, creating different works thus requires an obstinate rigor which must play with the usual, the current, the standard, in order to surprise creators and spectators.

Ceramics, glass and new technologies at the CIAV in Meisenthal

Each year, the CCE lab organizes a workshop on "Ceramics, glass and new technologies" at International Center for Glass Art (CIAV) in Meisenthal, which takes place this year from March 2nd to 6th, 2026. Through a call for projects, the lab is opening this workshop to 7 students from the 3rd to 5th years of the Art and Design options at the school. By combining ceramics, glass, and new technologies in the freest and most interdisciplinary way possible, each student can submit a project based on their personal issues.

The submitted file must include two parts:

• A book including a short text on the student's personal issues illustrated with a few captioned works;
• A project for the CIAV (notes of intent, references, sketches, drawings, photographs, videos, sounds, etc.).

The files, in paper or digital form, must be submitted to the laboratory.

Calendar :

• Deadline for submission of applications: November 6, 2025
• Project selection and announcement of results: November 18, 2025
• For selected projects, follow-up sessions are organised from November to March at the CCE (feasibility studies, critical analysis, constitution of a reference field, project economics…).

Teachers and technicians: Serge PAYEN, Jessie Derogy and Arnaud BORDE.