Max Mollon (Ph.D.) on about.me (original) (raw)

Design Fiction, Consulting, and research in Paris, France

Max Mollon (Ph.D.)

Design Fiction, Consulting, and research in Paris, France

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Middle-east-rooted, Swiss-trained, Paris-based, Dr. Max Mollon (singular They/Them) is a Conflict Facilitator. As a Designer, they specialised since 2010 in creating future-based debate situations to collectively challenge present issues. Kind of like science fiction, but it is called Design Fiction.
Also #Researcher, Speaker, Educator, Consultant.

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LAST NEWS
• Cop28.fr (May 2021) is a tridisciplinary analysis of an emerging controversy on electric mobility, by my students (in French)
• Lets be Diplomats (June 2021) is an interview in the European research programme Speculative-edu

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MAIN RESEARCH
• Designing for Debate (2019) is my Ph.D. thesis providing new concepts, means and roles available to designers when using design fictions to spark debate (PSL SACRe/ EnsadLab + Telecom-ParisTech/ CodesignLab)
• Check ›› my CV & list of publications.

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MAIN PROJECTS
(The projets are all fed by my doctoral research)
• Le Design Fiction Club is a monthly experimental seminar in Gaîté-Lyrique (founded in Sept. 2017, Paris)
• Plurality University is gathering people exploring alternative imaginaries to broaden the scope of thinkable futures (2018)
• Sciences Po (Paris): I am Head of the Contemporary Controversies workshop (MA)
• Politique-Fiction is a collective conducting a series of project merging Design Fiction and political issues. (Co-founded with friends in April 2017)
• What if? is a Design For Debate bureau (founded in Nov. 2014)
• Alternative-communication is a telepresence research project conducted through design fiction (2009—2013).
• Lectures and courses I regularly give take place in Paris at SciencePo, Paris 8, ENSAD, Strate, Condé; at Pôle supérieur du Design (Villefontaine); at The Ohio State University; or HEAD–Geneva.

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PRESS & TALKS
• Centre Pompidou (1h30)
• TedX ESC-Clermont (18min)