Prof. Dr. Patricia Ribault
Patricia Ribault will strengthen teaching and research in the Department of Theory and History at weißensee school of art and design berlin from the summer semester 2020.
The new professor for »Performative Design Research« was most recently Junior Professor for History and Theory of Gestaltung at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the HUB. She was involved in the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung«, the forerunner of »Matters of Activity«, for which she is also a Principal Investigator.
Patricia Ribault started her career in design, ceramics and glassblowing and her research interests cover the fields of design, craft, art, body, work, technology, industry. Since 2011 she has also been leading a master's seminar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Material Form Function (Principal Investigator)
Cutting (Cluster Professor)
Material Form Function (Cluster Professor)
weissensee school of art and design berlin
Bühringstraße 20
13086 Berlin
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Ribault, P. ed. 2022. Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making. Basel: Birkhäuser.
Alexandre, P., Jouannais, J., Ribault, P., Semin, D. eds. 2020. Art et Camouflage. With contributions by Alexandre, P., Ribault, P., Aubagnac, G., Semin, D., Aubry, M., Bergounioux, P., Coutin, C., Shell, H. R., Schäffner, W. and Thierrée, V. Paris: Beaux-Arts Éditions, ENSBA.
Golsenne, T., Ribault, P. eds. 2016. Essais de Bricologie. Ethnologie de l’art et du design contemporains. Revue Techniques et Culture n 64. Paris: Ed. de l’EHESS.
Highlighted by https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/23118.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Ribault, P. 2022. »Design, Gestaltung, Formatività: An Introduction.« In Design, Gestaltung, Formatività. Philosophies of Making, edited by Ribault, P. Basel: Birkhäuser, forthcoming.
Ribault, P. 2022. »P comme Pieuvre.« In Abécédaire de la beauté, edited by Zernick., C. Paris: Editions B42.
Schmidt, B., Ribault, P., Petruschat, J. 2022. »Knowing, Blowing, Forming — A Conversation about Glassmaking, by Patricia Ribault and Jörg Petruschat.« In glass – hand formed matter, edited by Schmidt, B. Forthcoming.
Ribault, P. 2021. »Blowing as a Mode of Giving Form. Perspectives on Two Cultural Techniques.« In Atem / Breath: Gestalterische, ökologische und soziale Dimensionen / Morphological, ecological and social dimensions, edited by Burchert, L., Resetar, I. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 119-133.
da Mosto, J., Kuitenbrouwer, K., Ribault, P., et al. 2020. »Zoöp.« In The Venice Exploratorium: Cahier #2, edited by Nevejan, C., da Mosto, J., HabiFarès, H. Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Ribault, P. 2020. »Being Hermann August Weizenegger.« In ATMOISM: Gestaltete Atmosphären. Eine Ausstellung von Hermann August Weizenegger, Berlin Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 184-187.
Ribault, P. 2020. »De la forme à l’informe. La stratégie du poulpe.« In Art et Camouflage, edited by Alexandre, P., Jouannais, J., Ribault, P., Semin, D. Paris: Beaux-Arts Éditions, ENSBA.
Riabult, P. 2019. »Forme donnée, donner forme.« Art Book Magazine / Cité du design / ENSAD. In Design en regards, edited by Bihanic, D.
Ribault, P. 2019. »Gestaltung, ou la dynamique des formes.« In Staatliche Bauhaus cent pour cent, 1919-2019, edited by Bihanic, D. Paris: T&P editions.
https://reflectiveinteraction.ensadlab.fr/staatliche-bauhaus-cent-pour-cent-1919-2019/
Ribault, P. 2019. »Körper bei der Arbeit. Geste, Norm und Technik.« In Standardisierung und Naturalisierung, edited by Müller, M., Neubert, C. Paderborn/München: Wilhelm Fink, 219-232.
Ribault, P. 2016. »Comment faire? La technique comme pouvoir.« In Essais de Bricologie. Ethnologie de l’art et du design contemporains, edited by Dittmar, P.-O., Joulian, F., Golsenne, T., Ribault, P. Techniques & Culture. 64, Paris: CNRS, 32-45.
Articles
Picht, T., Calvé, M. L., Tomasello, R., Fekonja, L., Gholami, M. F., Bruhn, M., Zwick, C., Rabe, J. P., Müller-Birn, C., Vajkoczy, P., Sauer, I. M., Zachow, S., Nyakatura, J. A., Ribault, P., Pulvermüller, F. 2021. »Letter: A Note on Neurosurgical Resection and Why We Need to Rethink Cutting.« Neurosurgery. E289–E291.
https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyab326
Ribault, P. 2019. »Chiara Vigo ou la maîtrise de soie. Pensée magique, processus technique et démarche scientifique en question.« Images Re-vues. Histoire, anthropologie et théorie de l’art, Hors-série 7.
https://doi.org/10.4000/imagesrevues.7055
Contributions to Exhibitions
Ribault, P. (curator) »Cabinet of Curiosities.« With the participation of: Art Orienté Objet, Byars, J., Durham, J., Garcia, H., Degorce-Dumas, E.. Mosset, O., Mullican, M., Purcell, R., Sherwood, D., Tschiember, M., Williams, R., Zarka, R., Ribault, P., Rioux, V., Students of Chaos. At the exhibition: ExtraNatural (A Mark Dion Projekt), curated by Basta, S. Beaux-Arts, Paris. 18 May 2021 - 14 July 2021.
Talks & Presentations
Ribault, P., Glaser, J., Rasehorn, F. Touching as Knowing. Oscillating between physical and virtual tactility. Cumulus Conference »›Un/touchable. New meanings and values‹«, Spaces, Senses, Skins: Reinvention of the Tactile in Art and Design Practices. Higher School of Economics, Art and Design School, Moscow, Russia. Hybrid. 13 June 2022.
https://cumulusrussia2022.org/
Ribault, P. Pensée magique et démarche scientifique sont-elles incompatibles ? L’exemple de Chiara Vigo. Talk at the Seminar »Les objets comme source : les textiles et leurs matériaux – II«, Soies marines. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Hybrid. 3 February 2022.
https://enseignements.ehess.fr/2021-2022/ue/645
Kuitenbrouwer, K., Ribault, P. Where to Begin: From Laying Waste to Generating Life Worlds. Talk at the Symposium »Times of Waste – Handling Matter«, Organized by FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. Virtual. 17 June 2021.
http://times-of-waste.ch/de/symposium/
Ribault, P. Design et Formativité : L’Apport de L’Esthétique de Luigi Pareyson aux Études en Design. Talk at the Lecture Series »Au-delà du Visuel«, Collège des Bernardins, Paris. Virtual. 14 December 2021.
https://www.collegedesbernardins.fr/content/au-dela-du-visuel
Ribault, P. Interspecificities: An Introduction. Talk at the Online Conversation Series »Conversations 2021: on Non-Human Centric Approaches«. with Shared Campus, group Critical Ecologies, Bitton Joëlle. Virtual. 22 April 2021.
https://shared-campus.com/themes/critical-ecologies/conversations-with-ten-thousand-things/conversations/conversations-2021-non-human-centric-approaches/
Ribault, R. From Form to Formlessness: The Octopus, a Master of Finesse. Talk at the the International Conference »Other Worlds: Octopuses in Interdisciplinary Perspective«, Section 1: Bodily Configurations. University of Kassel, GLASMOOG, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. https://www.khm.de/termine/news.5013.other-worlds-octopuses-in-interdisciplinary-perspective/. Virtual. 30 October 2020.
https://www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen-und-institute/geschichte/lehrgebiet/sozial-und-kulturgeschichte-human-animal-studies/konferenzen/other-worlds-octopuses-in-interdisciplinary-perspectives
Ribault, P., Pasche, D. Materials and Immaterials. Talk at the International Symposium »Interdisciplinarity Revisited«, Humboldt Forum Berlin. 3 October 2019.
Ribault, P. Blowing as a Mode of Giving Form. Perspectives on Two Cultural Techniques. Symposium Breath. Creative, Ecological and Socio-political Dimensions, 1900-today, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 12 October 2019.
Ribault, P. Co-machins et inter-trucs. À quoi bon? Workshop »Movement Design and Learning«, IRCAM, Paris. 22 November 2019.
https://medias.ircam.fr/x9d1177
Ribault, P. From Being a Bat to Having a Digital Twin - On Contemporary Modes of Co-existence. Talk at the Seminar »Formen der Körperlichkeit: Maschine, Mensch, Tier«, Zentralinstitut Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 12 July 2019.
Invited Moderation/ Comment
Bourlez, F., Eloit, I., Schulmann, C., Ribault, P. Invited moderation. Rencontre avec Rosi Braidotti, Chaire Troubles, dissidences et esthétiques, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris. Virtual. 26 March 2021.
https://www.beauxartsparis.fr/fr/evenement/rencontre-avec-rosi-braidotti
Bourlez, F., Eloit, I., Schulmann., Ribault, P. Rencontre avec Rosi Braidotti. Chaire Troubles, dissidences et esthétiques, Beaux-Arts, Paris. Virtual. 26 March 2021.
https://www.beauxartsparis.fr/fr/evenement/rencontre-avec-rosi-braidotti?fbclid=IwAR3hrlSVcxrGxbYVd83Itb2HDRrV1i7G7Zll6_naJgEby7xmg5fw3kL71WU
Grasskamp, A., Ribault, P. Moderation of the »Conversation about Value and Waste / An Artist's Perspective«, talk by liina Klauss. Conversation with Ten Thousand Things, Shared Campus, Critical Ecologies, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong. Virtual. 10 December 2021.
https://shared-campus.com/themes/critical-ecologies/conversations-with-ten-thousand-things/conversations-2021-conversations-about-value-and-waste-an-artists-perspective/
Events & Workshops
Kramer, N., Ribault, P., Simon, M., Van Esch, S. Improwild! TNUA IMCCI & Wanwu Practice Group, Taipei. Virtual. 12 November 2021 - 13 November 2021.
https://shared-campus.com/themes/critical-ecologies/conversations-with-ten-thousand-things/symposium-embodying-local-knowledges/panel-4-improwild-a-workshop-on-knowledge-exchange-through-improvisation/
Kuitenbrouwer, K., Ribault, P. Justice in a Multispecies World: Workshop with Zoöp. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels. Virtual. 25 January 2021.
https://www.vub.be/en/events/2021/justice-in-a-multispecies-world-workshop-with-zoop
Petruschat, J., Ribault, P. On Gestaltung: New Online Lecture Series. weißensee school of art and design berlin. »Theories« and »Actions«. Virtual. 11 May 2021 - 22 June 2021.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/5048/on-gestaltung
Ribault, P., Kuitenbrouwer, K., the Université Libre de Bruxelles. »Workshop Zoöp«. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 25 January 2021.
Kuitenbrouwer, K., Ribault, P., da Mosto, J., et al. The Zoönomic Method. Collaboration of the Het Nieuwe Instituut with Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; weißensee school of art and design berlin; We Are Here Venice; École des Arts Décoratifs and Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. Virtual. 1 June 2020 - 31 August 2020.
https://zoop.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/instruments-methods/zoonomic-method
Ribault, P., De Visscher, E., Kuitenbrouwer, K. Zoonomic Cooperations (Zoöp): Imagining a Space of Interspecific Observation and Intervention. Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Virtual. 13 November 2020.
Bianchini, S., Freire, M., Quinz, E., Ribault, P., Guiducci, L., Razghandi, K. Morphostructures: life-like behavior in material systems. Centre Pompidou, Paris. 15 March 2019 - 17 March 2019.
Löffler, P., Ribault, P, Müller, M. im/Perfection, Im/ perfect Figurations in Nature. Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. With contributions by Löffler, P., Ribault, P, Müller, M., Bublitz, H., Tikka, E., Kassung, C., De Visscher, E., Quinz, E., Schäffner, W., Bruns, C., Wehrli, P., Allen, J., Lang, C. 18 April 2019 - 11 July 2019.
Riabault, P. (organiser and moderator), Guilhem, J. (illusionist) Magic conference. Beaux-Arts de Paris. 2 July 2019.
Ribault, P., et al. Behavioral Matter. Centre Pompidou, Paris. Co-organisation of the symposium and workshop during the exhibition La Fabrique du Vivant, in cooperation with ENSAD, ENSCi, ENSBA Paris and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 15 March 2019 - 17 March 2019.
Ribault, P., Fratzl, P., Schäffner, W., et al. Behavioral Matter: Composer avec le vivant. Centre Pompidou, Paris. In cooperation with Ensadlab (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris) and the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 29 March 2019.
https://fonds-perspektive.de/fr/behavioralmatter/
Teaching & Courses
Picht, T., Samuel, N., Le Calvé, M., Sauer, I., Ribault, P., Rasehorn, F., Fekonja, L., Amelung, K., Wiener, E., Engelhardt, M., Vellmer, S., Acker, G., Shams, B., Ostherr, K., Choejki, P., Stein, C., Roethe, A., Lippert, C., Avenati, O., Chakkalakal, D. Adaptive Digital Twin. Block Seminar, Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, Department for Neurosurgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. 24 January 2022 - 4 February 2022.
Ribault, P., Blazy, M. Le temps du vivant. Beaux-Arts de Paris. 2 March 2021.
Ribault, P. Tracking Materiality. An Inquiry into Gestures, Processes and Artefacts. Seminar, weißensee school of art berlin. 4 October 2021 - 19 February 2022.
Schmidt, B., Ribault, P. glass: hand formed matter. International development, exchange, cooperation and exhibition project., weißensee school of art and design berlin. 5 October 2020 - 14 July 2023.
Ribault, P. Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique (Master) Graphic Design. École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. 1 July 2019 - 2 July 2019.
(Co)Supervisions of Qualification Theses
Ribault, P. 2021. External Examiner for the admission to the SACRe doctoral program. PSL Université.
Cooperations
Ribault, P. 2019. Erasmus Coordinator, Institute for History and Theory of Culture, HU Berlin.
Review Activities & Expertises
Ribault, P. 2021. Interview on Design Research. Institute for Design Research and Appliance.
Ribault, P. 2020 - 2021. Member of the jury for the Prix de l’intelligence de la main® de la Fondation Bettencourt-Schüller.
Memberships
Ribault, P. Since 2021. Member of the Scientific Board for the image-based research journal .able, Chaire arts and sciences of École Polytechnique, École des Arts Décoratifs – Univerité Paris Sciences et Lettres and the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation.
Ribault. P. Since 2021. Member of the Scientific Board for the Chaire Beauté(s), PSL Université (France).
Ribault, P. Since 2020. Committee for the 21st Prix Liliane Bettancourt de L’intelligence de la main.
Ribault, P. Since 2020. Member of Shared Campus - Creative Practices Across Cultures, a cooperation platform for international education formats and research networks in art and design.
Ribault, P. Since 2020. Member of the Curatorial Board for the »glass - hand formed matter« project, Aalto University, Glass Museum Riihimäki, The Factory, Boda, Bröhan-Museum Berlin, weißensee school of art and design berlin.
Ribault, P. Since 2020. Member of the Scientific Board for the DHS annual conference Memory Full? Reimagining the relation between Design and History, postponed to 2021.
Ribault, P. Since 2020. Scientific Committee for the DHS annual conference.
Ribault, P. 2019. Member of the scientific committee for the symposium Dzing Dzing. Design / Recherche / École d’art : ce qui nous préoccupe, Design Biennal, Saint-Étienne.
Ribault, P. Since 2015. Member of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik, HU Berlin.
Contributions to Newsletters, CZ# or MoA Blog
Ribault., P., Rioux, V. »Technobodies on Air!« Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, 4 February 2021.
https://blog.matters-of-activity.de/2021/02/01/04-02-at-6pm-technobodies-on-air-radiobal-fr/
Contributions in TV & Radio
Ribault, P., Rioux, V. Technobodies on Air! Radio contribution, Radiobal.fr. 4 February 2021.
Lignel, B., Ribault, P. Making Do with Objects. Looking, Conversing, Learning 11/10. organized by La Garantie, Association for Contemporary Jewelry. Radio contribution. 11 October 2020.
Press Articles
Ribault, P., Lessing, N. 2019. »Vom Gesellschaftsleben der Objekte.« Interview with Patricia Ribault by Nora Lessing. Humboldt’s newsletter, 1 September 2019.
https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrichten/september-2019/nr-1992
Podcasts & Videos
Ribault, P. Interview for the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin about the exhibition Atmoism, Gestaltete Atmosphären. Eine Ausstellung von Hermann August Weizenegger. Video. 31 May 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gecNbgQWZKM
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Atmoism. Gestaltete Atmosphären. Eine Ausstellung von Hermann August Weizenegger. With contribution by Ribault, P. Video. 16 minutes, 31 May 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gecNbgQWZKM