Housed in Lille at the Biotope, the new headquarters of La Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), the Maison Action Publique’s activities take place in the spaces of the MEL’s public policies laboratory in an exhibition area and of course online. Today The Maison POC Action Publique is about thirty projects that testify to the vitality […]

Ramy Fischler, designer and founder of RF studio, and Scott Longfellow, director of the studio’s Office of Uses, analyse the role of fiction and futurism in imagining the uses of tomorrow. They explore the subject through an exhibition and a creation laboratory located in the Tripostal. The exhibition uses a designer’s perspective to highlight the […]

The exhibition ​“Design designer(s)” sets out to depict the landscape, diversity, evolutions and ideas of French design based on designers and their projects. With choices made in collaboration with famous names in contemporary design, this exhibition will present some sixty designers, projects, company processes and key figures and, above all, the ways in which designers […]

This exhibition, created by world-renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, explores the way a new generation of designers is experimenting with materials and manufacturing processes. The past decade has seen a turning point in our relationship with materials, from design to manufacturing, with materials gradually reclaiming their central role in the creative process and beginning to […]

Expanding the scope of the term ​“design” to the world as a whole, used as a verb to qualify human action on the environment, is a way of giving ourselves the means to act. The exhibition ​“Uses of the world” invites us to consider social, environmental, architectural or agricultural alternatives that have been chosen across […]

The ​“Care” Maison POC advocates the idea that caring for others is the best way to get the most from the world. Care given to others, both to the younger generations as well as our elders, is an act that is bigger than just the healthcare system. Caring extends to our natural environment and users […]

Recipient of three founding values — zero waste, frugality and reuse — this Maison POC wishes above all to be an example of how to make an event space sustainable, accessible and eco-responsible. Located in the former school of the Couvent des Clarisses in Roubaix, the Maison is taking part in the circular rehabilitation and transitional occupation project Saisons […]

Maison POC is as much an animated tour as it is a lively forum for exchange and debate. Visitors conduct an investigation to discover evidence of a collaborative future. In line with the hundred POC from the territory, it will welcome DESIS labs of design schools and universities from all around the world, the design […]

The ​“Housing” Maison POC will present the region’s strong innovation credentials in the area of housing. This Maison POC will illustrate the range of housing experiments in all their diversity, from private and social housing and student housing to residences for dependent persons and participative and connected housing. In partnership with the WAAO — Lille’s Architecture and […]

Design is a discipline that can be applied to every type of transport and service to meet present and future environmental and humanitarian challenges. Energy transition, climate change, air quality, new ways of living and consuming, forms of solidarity… Through design, we can give citizens the freedom to get around while ensuring the particular needs of […]