Samuel Tomatis
Samuel Tomatis
Book presenting the project developed by Samuel Tomatis with Ndao Hanavao in Madagascar.
Texts by Benjamin Loyauté, Domi Sanji, and Samuel Tomatis
Samuel Tomatis
Samuel Tomatis graduated in 2016 from ENSCI - Les Ateliers, following a diploma from the Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués, both with honours. The young designer has a close relationship with science and ecology, and is developing a practice between industrial design and ephemeral architecture. Seduced by the sea and the phenomenon of the tides, his research revolves around the world of maritime resources, and more particularly seaweed. Samuel works with a variety of professionals, including scientists and craftsmen. Experimentation, working with materials and eco-design are at the heart of his approach. In 2017, he was an Audi talents finalist and also a winner of the Agora design grant, chaired by Erwan Bouroullec. His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and the Villa Noailles. In 2022, he won the Liliane Bettencourt Prize for the Intelligence of the Hand.
Projet lié
Ndao Hanavao
Training and innovation laboratory for social design
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Since 2018
Project Manager : Domi Sanji, designer
Design curator : Benjamin Loyauté, artist and design historian
Ndao Hanavao is an innovation and training laboratory for social design created by Rubis Mécénat in 2018. Its objective is to respond to local societal and environmental issues via innovative, viable and sustained design projects, developed in collaboration with guest designers. It also aims to sustainably contribute to the professional integration of Malagasy youth from underprivileged backgrounds, helping them build commercial and collaborative initiatives based on projects developed in the laboratory.
Three projects are currently being developed locally: plastic waste becoming utility objects with French designer Alexandre Echasseriau ; invasive algae becoming paper with French designer Samuel Tomatis and plastic waste becoming wool with the Franco-British designers behind The Pol...
