Nathalie Guimbretière
Design Researcher
Nathalie Guimbretière works at the intersection of design research, anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). She develops protean devices — installations, audiovisual performances, interactive systems, speculative objects — that question the boundaries between the living, the technical and the imaginary. Her current work focuses on creative and reflective processes between artists and scientists, within the fields of organic robotics, astrophysics and material culture.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at LESC (CNRS / Université Paris-Nanterre) within the PEPR Organic Robotics programme (ANR / France 2030), where she coordinates the Maison des Humanités Potentielles. She is also an associate researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Design (ENS Paris-Saclay / ENSCI), at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (CNRS / Paris-Saclay) and a member of the Chaire Espace (ENS Ulm – PSL).
Nathalie holds a doctorate in arts from Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III (2022). She has exhibited and performed internationally — Berlin, Montréal, Reykjavík, New York, Conakry, Syracuse — and is supported by Stereolux (Nantes). Co-founder of the collective Pronaos (Paris).
Her work takes the form of publications in academic journals in design and STS (ACM CHI, Academic Mindtrek, Revue Plastir, À l’épreuve...), practice-based research experimental devices (Protolexique, Tribunal des technologies, Cinémathèque des imaginaires techniques), immersive and performative installations (Cosmic Utopia, Laboratoire Arianna, Hi-brides, Eidôlon).
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Technical imaginaries and design trajectories
Design research and practice-based methodologies
Art-science collaborations
Soft robotics and hybrid materialities
Anthropology of techniques
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Nathalie Guimbretière
Artist - Designer - Researcher
Nathalie Guimbretière works at the intersection of design research, anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). She develops protean devices — installations, audiovisual performances, interactive systems, speculative objects — that question the boundaries between the living, the technical and the imaginary. Her current work focuses on creative and reflective processes between artists and scientists, within the fields of organic robotics, astrophysics and material culture.
She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at LESC (CNRS / Université Paris-Nanterre) within the PEPR Organic Robotics programme (ANR / France 2030), where she coordinates the Maison des Humanités Potentielles. She is also an associate researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Design (ENS Paris-Saclay / ENSCI), at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (CNRS / Paris-Saclay) and a member of the Chaire Espace (ENS Ulm – PSL).
Nathalie holds a doctorate in arts from Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III (2022). She has exhibited and performed internationally — Berlin, Montréal, Reykjavík, New York, Conakry, Syracuse — and is supported by Stereolux (Nantes). Co-founder of the collective Pronaos (Paris).
Her work takes the form of publications in academic journals in design and STS (ACM CHI, Academic Mindtrek, Revue Plastir, À l’épreuve...), practice-based research experimental devices (Protolexique, Tribunal des technologies, Cinémathèque des imaginaires techniques) immersive and performative installations (Cosmic Utopia, Laboratoire Arianna, Hi-brides, Eidôlon).
Themes
Technical imaginaries and design trajectories
Design research and practice-based methodologies
Art-science collaborations
Soft robotics and hybrid materialities
Anthropology of techniques
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