ARTEM Nancy
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ARTEM was born in Nancy in 1999.
On the occasion of the Centenary of L’École de Nancy [The school of Nancy], three major schools joined forces to create an innovative educational organisation inspired by this famous artistic movement:ENSAD Nancy, National school of art and design, Mines Nancy and ICN Business School.
Since 2018, the three schools have been united on the ARTEM Campus, whose urban, architectural and social project also contributes to keeping alive the spirit of l’École de Nancy
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ARTEM is a project of pedagogical and scientific innovation in Nancy, France. It is also a Campus and an exceptional architectural and landscape project, all built from the heritage of the famous artistic movement: L’École de Nancy.
L’École de Nancy - Provincial Alliance of Art Industries - spearheaded Art Nouveau in France. Its essential inspiration lies in plant and animal forms. Based on a research of advanced use in the crafts, to put the beautiful in the hands of all and bring art into the home, the artists of L’École de Nancy worked in the fields of art, design and architecture. This internationally renowned movement, which combined creation, technology and commerce, also had a strong environmental and social dimension.
In 1999, on the occasion of the École de Nancy's Centenary, ENSAD Nancy, National School of Art and Design, Mines Nancy, Engineering School, and ICN Business School, Management School,decided to revive this legacy and joined forces to found the Alliance ARTEM.
Together, for more than twenty years, they have been developing an innovative interdisciplinary pedagogy, which associates schools and socio-professional organizations around industrial, economic, artistic, environmental and societal projects, in a stimulating environment and itself considerably inspired by L’École de Nancy : the ARTEM Campus.
Since 2018, the three schools have indeed been brought together in the same space, which hosts other academic, scientific and student components and services. This university and urban project is located on the site of the former Molitor military barracks. It covers ten hectares and is home to 4,500 students, professors, researchers and staff. It has gradually opened up to the life of the neighborhood with its public gallery and park and the cultural events organized by the ARTEM Alliance for the general public.
Key objectives for sustainability
The issues and attention paid to sustainability are embodied in several places in the ARTEM project: in its architectural and landscape project as well as in its educational programs.
Sustainability is at the heart of the ARTEM project, which is based on the ability of current and future generations to guarantee the ecological and social transitions that are now required of everyone. For several years now, Mines Nancy has been offering an ARTEM workshop on "Ecology and sustainable environment", which aims to offer a diversified and multicultural approach, based on scientific, societal and human considerations. ICN, with its UNESCO Chair "Arts, sciences and sustainable development", organizes a scientific event every two years, bringing together researchers, artists and designers from all over the world... and from the Campus! ENSAD Nancy, with its research program dedicated to the Design of environments, develops research-creation projects dealing, in particular, with bio-sourced materials from the region.
This environmental concern is reflected in the design of the ARTEM Campus, a site of excellence that is also distinguished by its economic, energy and technical innovations, by its cross-disciplinary spaces and by its high architectural quality. The buildings, designed by renowned architects, naturally meet these challenges. The public spaces have received the same attention in their treatment. For example, the gallery, a covered / open street linking all the schools on the Campus via a 700-metre urban walkway, is designed with Canadian wells, rainwater recovery and inter-climate buffer systems. The Campus' plant spaces are marked by the presence of dominant species, mixed with other trees to obtain harmonious contrasts. Ambiences of undergrowth, ponds and wetlands have been created and once again form a strong tribute to École de Nancy.
ARTEM is not only a place of knowledge and learning, it is a human, environmental, sensory and aesthetic experience.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Art and design have a special place in the ARTEM programs. Engineering and management students are highly sensitised to artistic creation through their participation in the workshops run by ENSAD Nancy, which offer training in art, photography, cinema and design. This learning is fundamental for those who, in their professional lives, will be called upon to design the objects and environments in which professionals and citizens will live and work.
The ARTEM experience is also embodied in the Global Design Master's programme set up by the École des Mines and which also involves ENSAD Nancy and the National school of architecture of Nancy. Engineers are trained alongside designers and architects, and in the spirit of the work of Jean Prouvé, another illustrious figure from Nancy to whom ARTEM owes its name, particular attention is paid to materials (metal, wood, iron) and their use in objects, urban furniture and buildings. Local professionals (artisans, craftsmen, industrialists) are also involved in these courses to encourage experimentation and the reinvention of savoir-faire and resources.
Art and Science intersect in exhibitions organized in the gallery of ENSAD Nancy, in the public space or in museums. Thus, in 2019, the exhibition "Magnetica, an attractive exhibition", the result of an atypical approach to scientific popularization associating researchers and student designers and engineers from the ARTEM Alliance, was presented at the Museum of Iron History. During the summer of 2021, the photographs taken by student engineers, artists, designers and managers as part of the ARTEM "Photo-Cité" workshop, will be presented in the Parc Sainte-Marie, located a few steps from the Campus. Among the projects carried out, we can also mention the performances associating Art and Management experimented by the UNESCO Chair directed by ICN.
The wish for Art everywhere and Art for everyone expressed by l’École de Nancy is still a reality for ARTEM !
Key objectives for inclusion
Since its creation, ARTEM has been concerned with opening its programs to a wide public.
Thus, since 2010, ARTEM has actively participated in the “Rope of success”. This is a national program to help pupils from secondary schools located in rural areas or in priority districts succeed and ARTEM is an exception with its interdisciplinary project which aims to encourage the participation of all students.
The specificities of the Artem Rope lie in the diversity of the tutors' profiles: engineering students, managers, artists and designers, not forgetting the involvement of active executives from partner companies (Bouygues, EDF, etc.) and partner associations ("Avenir Passeport", " Undertaking as a woman", etc.).
Artem Rope is made up of 15 partner establishments. The program includes four types of actions led by Artem students and professionals:
1. collective tutoring and actions aimed at all the pupils of the Rope : information on the courses of study of excellence (visits to schools, meetings with students), information on the professions of engineer, manager, artist, designer, information on the world of work (visits to companies, meetings with professionals, etc.), organisation of workshops and debates on current affairs; workshops on "image management", "self-confidence, etc.";
2. individual tutoring to help students overcome methodological and organisational difficulties and difficulties in acquiring knowledge
3. participation in cultural events and activities, designed to broaden the pupils' horizons: museum, theatre, opera, artist's workshop, art cinema, etc.
4. the organisation of events such as: the Entrepreneurship Days, the Sustainable Development Day, Artem Science Day, etc.
For more than 10 years, more than 15,000 middle and high school students in the region have participated in the actions organized by the Rope Artem and more than 300 students have accompanied them in this adventure.
Results in relation to category
Since its creation in 1999, ARTEM's objective has been to invent, develop and implement training courses and projects combining scientific, artistic, economic and social skills that generate new ways of thinking and solving problems that require breaking out of conventional frameworks, in order to anticipate the emergence of new professions for the benefit of the economic and social players of tomorrow. All of ARTEM's educational projects are carried out in conjunction with companies, local authorities, associations and public or private organisations in the region.
Each year, ARTEM welcomes more than 1500 students and 50 professional partners and represents more than 3000 hours of training. It is spread over three years [from Bachelor 3 to Master 2]. In year 1, with the CBDays, students have their first experience of interdisciplinarity and co-construction. During the second year, the Master 1 students follow the courses given in the ARTEM Workshops. Created in 2000, they are the heart of the ARTEM pedagogy and are real exchange laboratories where students from the three schools learn to listen to their differences and work together for the benefit of others. There are more than twenty Artem workshops which take place one day a week between September and May. Organised in year 3, Artem Insight is a unique experience which allows a transfer of skills between companies and students. The students are faced with real and complex economic or societal problems, posed by companies, public or private institutions of the territory and to which they must provide an answer in one week.
20 years after its creation, ARTEM has federated more than 300 partners and has trained thousands of students in interdisciplinarity. With real experience of working together, trained in other cultures and other fields of expertise, they are ready to engage in the major transitions of the in the major transitions of the 21st century.
How Citizens benefit
The challenge of ARTEM lies in its innovative pedagogy as well as in its application in everyday life.
The Campus physically embodies this objective. The Gallery, the Media Library and the park are open to the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. During the National Heritage Days, guided walks are an opportunity for the inhabitants of the neighbourhood and the Metropolis to discover and physically experience the architectural and landscape project of the ARTEM Campus.
The university media library is another public space. One can come here to read, consult documents and archives and discover, through exhibitions or digital presentations, the heritage collections kept in the storerooms - many of which date back to the beginning of the 20th century - and which bear witness to the history of the city and the Ecole de Nancy.
The amphitheatre at the entrance to the Campus regularly hosts public lectures, and in its art centre, on the Campus and in the City, ENSAD Nancy organises art and design exhibitions throughout the year by students, French and foreign artists and designers, and sometimes also with scientists. This is notably the case for the productions developed in ARTEM GameLab, a training and research space for students and dedicated to video games.
Through some of the projects developed in the ARTEM Workshops and in ARTEM Insight, ARTEM projects are developed on a scale 1 in the city. This is the case, for example, with the productions of the Fabcity Workshop, which aims to explore the possibilities of a manufacturing, participative and circular city, or with some of the initiatives born in the Stand'up Artem incubator. One example is the Mollis Collection, a range of enveloping and soothing objects designed to improve the quality of life of frail people and to accompany them in medical and social care facilities and collective spaces or in their daily lives at home.
Innovative character
ARTEM is a high place of interdisciplinarity training and research center, run by and with students and teacher-researchers, who are constantly looking for study subjects and problems that are as close as possible to contemporary issues and challenges, as well as with a hundred or so partners from the socio-professional world.
ARTEM is also a place of innovation. For those who intend to becme entrepreneurs, support is offered by the ARTEM Stand'up Incubator and the PEEL (Lorraine student entrepreneurial center). Projects combining the arts, technology and the economy are developed throughout the year.
ARTEM is an inclusive project.The inhabitants of Nancy and its metropolitan area benefit from it, but so do the youngest. With the national program “Cords of success” - the only one at national level dedicated to interdisciplinarity - pupils from fifteen middle and high schools in the area benefit from a tutoring and success assistance program run for a year by Alliance students. Soon, the Campus will also host a college and an Apprentice Training Center. The arrival of these new learners, from different backgrounds and disciplines, will contribute to making ARTEM a place of social diversity and innovation.
ARTEM is a sustainable and responsible project. With its attention to climatic and ecological issues, both in its pedagogy and in its immediate environment, the Alliance intends to embody a "New Art of living in the world" for its students, teams, professional and institutional partners and citizens.
By bringing together the three founding schools of the ARTEM Alliance on the same campus, by welcoming other training, research and entrepreneurial components, and by opening up these spaces and this project to the inhabitants of the region as well as to companies, local authorities and public and private organisations, ARTEM has been able to embody the project of the Nancy School of Art a century later.
ARTEM is definitely a shared project!
