ALBERT·E, the research journal of Ensad Limoges
Art and design schools are places of creative effervescence where research animates students from the moment they cross the threshold.
Over the years and with the proposals made by the teaching teams, the way of research becomes organized, structured and allows emerging artists and designers to go further and nourish their approach to enrich their practice.
It is a journey, a mutation, an opening. How can we grasp this movement? How can we enhance this wealth that remains intangible? Ensad Limoges has chosen the format of the journal with Albert·e, which thematically brings together a fragment of the approaches undertaken, the proposed projects, the discussions, conferences, and writings of invited artists and designers, teachers, and students. It is the collection of a moment of this research, knowing that the visible face proposed today reveals a tiny part of everything that has been shown and everything that has been produced.
Albert·e wishes to establish the dissemination of research over a long period and in a recurring format which allows Ensad Limoges to be identified as a place of research and to value the research-creation activities carried out within it, with the ambition of contributing, in its own way, to defining research-creation in art and design.
The journal L'ALBERT·E: Territories of the Living (No. 1)
The journal L'Albert·e, whose first issue was published in December 2024, intends to reflect the plurality of forms that research can take at Ensad Limoges, the different places where it is located, the questions it poses and asks itself, and the results it produces.
This first issue highlights the theoretical and practical research carried out within the framework of the Territories of the Living axis by the ARCs. Chromoculture et Territorial Experience, to which are added a proposal for the restitution of the UP project (as in Public Utility) and a selection of master's research works by students in art as well as design.
A second issue is planned for the end of 2026 and will be devoted to the work carried out within the framework of the Traditional Gestures/Innovative Gestures research axis. Contributions from external researchers will provide further insights.
additional information on the research conducted within the school.
ISSN for the printed Albert·e: ISSN 3076-923X
ISSN for the digital Albert·e: ISSN 3076-2391
Accompanying video for issue #1:
THE ANIMALS ARE BRINGING THE RIVER BACK TO ITS SOURCE
Directed by Andréa Tavernier, student at Ensad Limoges – assistant Benjamin Sebbagh / Musical creation Lucile Leloup.
Collective performance organized by the “ARC Experience of the Territory” Research and Creation Workshop, April 5, 2024, at the sources of the Vienne” with Patrice Blouin, Vincent Carlier, Hyein Choi, Alexandre Ferrani, Haruka Fujiyama, Nicolas Gautron, Zequing Liu, Estelle Majani, Dominique Mathieu and Julie Matlosz.
