Draft:Annie Gentès
 | Review waiting, please be patient.
This may take 2–3 weeks or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 802 pending submissions waiting for review.
Where to get help
How to improve a draft
You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Editor resources
Reviewer tools
|
Annie Gentès is a French researcher in media studies and design research specializing in design, innovation, and digital cultures. A university professor, she is Director of Research at CY École de design (CY Cergy Paris University) and a member of the ETIS laboratory (UMR CNRS 8051). She is the author of The In‑Discipline of Design and develops a symmetrical anthropology of design focused on the media of design.
Biography
[edit]Annie Gentès holds a PhD in media studies. She has taught at Telecom ParisTech / Institut Polytechnique de Paris, where she headed the Department of Information and Communication Sciences (media studies) and directed the CoDesign Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory involving designers, researchers, engineers, and artists. For over twenty years, her collaborations have included institutions such as ENSCI, ENSAD, Strate, the Royal College of Art (RCA), Valence Art & Design School, and Microsoft Research Socio‑Digital Systems Group. Through these projects, she demonstrates that design — as both practice and research — bridges the gap between social sciences and engineering sciences.[1]
She is currently a professor and Director of Research at CY École de design (CY Cergy Paris University)[2] and a member of the ETIS laboratory (UMR CNRS 8051)[1].
Research
[edit]Annie Gentès focuses on design in the context of technological innovation, digital cultures, and experimentation. In the article "Design et médiation créative dans les technologies de l'information," she explores participatory creation and experimental design processes[3]. She also develops a theory of "malleable media" in design[4].
In The In‑Discipline of Design: Bridging the Gap Between Humanities and Engineering[5], Gentès argues to view design as a meaning- and form-making activity[6], and an interdisciplinary project discipline that bridges humanities, social sciences, and engineering, blending artistic, technical, social, and aesthetic approaches to enrich invention and design processes. She introduces a new epistemology of design called “indiscipline,” where disciplines confront and redefine each other through design, creating space for radical unknowns. The abductive method plays a key role in understanding research and design as complementary creative activities. The “research through design” methodology presented in the book involves the researcher actively in the design process, analyzing objects, uses, and practices, while expanding design’s scope to hybrid media (tangible and digital) and emphasizing intermediate objects as tools for mediation and analysis.[1]
Selected Publications
[edit]Annie Gentès, "Les 'médiums malléables' : contribution à une théorie des médiums en design," Sciences du Design, 2024/1 (n° 19)[4].
Annie Gentès & Justine Peneau, "Figures de la science dans des contextes de conception," Communication & langages, 2020/3 (n° 205)[7].
Annie Gentès & Camille Jutant, "Expérimentation technique et création : l’implication des utilisateurs dans la création artistique et la recherche," Communication & langages, 2011/2 (n° 168)[8].
Annie Gentès, "Design et médiation créative dans les technologies de l’information," Hermès, La Revue, 2008/1 (n° 50)[3].
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Catoir-Brisson, Marie-Julie (2019-04-16). "Annie GENTES (2017), The In-Discipline of Design: Bridging the Gap Between Humanities and Engineering". Communication Information médias théories pratiques (in French) (36/1). doi:10.4000/communication.9266. ISSN 1189-3788.
- ^ "Cité du design | Inspire". www.citedudesign.com (in French). Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ a b Gentès, Annie (2008). "Design et médiation créative dans les technologies de l'information". Hermès, la Revue (in French). 50 (1): 83–89. doi:10.4267/2042/24156. ISSN 0767-9513.
- ^ a b Gentès, Annie (2024-07-29). "Les « médiums malléables » : contribution à une théorie des médiums en design". Sciences du Design (in French). 19 (1): 142–159. doi:10.3917/sdd.019.0142. ISSN 2428-3711.
- ^ Gentes, Annie (2017). "The In-Discipline of Design". Design Research Foundations. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65984-8. ISBN 978-3-319-65983-1. ISSN 2366-4622.
- ^ Chaillat, Estelle; Peneau, Justine; Reunkrilerk, Dorian (2019-03-01). "Annie Gentès. The indiscipline of design: bridging the gap between humanities and engineering". Azimuts. Négocier les futurs. 50: 268–273.
- ^ Gentès, Annie; Peneau, Justine (2020-12-01). "Figures de la science dans des contextes de conception". Communication & Langages (in French). 205 (3): 147–165. doi:10.3917/comla1.205.0147. ISSN 0336-1500.
- ^ Gentès, Annie; Jutant, Camille (2011). "Expérimentation technique et création : l'implication des utilisateurs dans l'invention des médias". Communication & Langages (in French). 168 (2): 97–111. doi:10.3917/comla.168.0097. ISSN 0336-1500.