STUDIO GGSV : designing between science and fiction
they met on the benches of the ENSCI - Les Ateliers design college and, after ten years of separate practice, they decided to act together. It is Green, an orangutan female victim of deforestation in Indonesia, heroine of Patrick Rouxel’s documentary film with multiple international awards, who arouses their awareness on environmental issues and the driving force behind the creation of Studio GGSV. The urgency of the consequences of the overexploitation posed by this 48-minute film without words released in 2009 led Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard to reflect on the notion of decluttering.
Ecology of the material as a starting point
Indeed, not allowing themselves to be trapped by the seductive aspect of design, which consists in thinking that creation systematically contributes to the progress of society, while objects, in spite of us, contibute to surplus and, in fine, disintegration, they immediately question the notions of overproduction and overexploitation of resources. It is from this premise that the «Objet Trou Noir» project was born, winner of the VIA Carte blanche in 2011 and are now part of the Centre Pompidou’s permanent collections since 2017.
This founding project of the agency in the form of a manifesto - «creating
