What is living space today?
How does it relate to the environment?
These are the questions that guide Isabelle Daëron's work.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle and the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design de Reims, Isabelle Daëron designs objects, spaces and installations based on a reflection on the environment and the natural elements that make it up. Her approach questions the importance of contemporary environmental issues and their scope of application (flows, energy, mobility), while valorizing the resources available in the territory engaged by her creations.
Topiques, for example, brings together a range of devices that take advantage of natural flows such as water, wind and light in public spaces. The word "Topique" was chosen to designate a typology of autonomous objects disconnected from the network and connected to the environment (Topique comes from topos and means "relative to a given place"). Some of these creations: Topique-eau, a fountain filtering rainwater, Topique-eau-des-Cimes, an irrigation micro-network, Topique-feuilles, a leaf collector powered by the wind, or Topique-ciel, a sky mirror powered by rainwater, have received several awards: Lille design prize (2012), Grand Prix de la Création de la Ville de Paris (2013), Audi Talents Awards (2015), FAIRE (2018), Mondes Nouveaux (2022).
This research into flows has led her to imagine perennial works in public spaces: Bibliophonies, a bench that tells stories to passers-by for the town of Le Rheu (1% artistic contribution), De Source Sûre, a mediation device on the water route in Saint-Galmier, Gwalenner/les Arpenteurs, a work for the Morbihan Departmental Directorate for Territories and the Sea, and Topique-vent : Anemochories, a work for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village.
Isabelle Daëron's work has also been exhibited in France - at the Biennale internationale du design in Saint-Étienne, or the "Conversation(s)" exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - and internationally - at the International Craft Design exhibition in Taipei, Helsinki Design Week, CCA Kitakyushu in Japan, Le Grand Hornu, among others.