Biennale du Design 2022. The International Biennale Design Saint-Étienne returned from April to July 2022 for a 12th edition on the theme of bifurcations. Back on the program, the dates and prices of the design event. Without forgetting the practical information to go to the next edition which will take place in 2024!
The International Biennale Design Saint-Etienne was back in 2022! Every two years, this major design meeting creates the event. From Its creation by the Regional School of Fine Arts in Saint-Etienne in 1998the International Design Biennale has not spared its efforts to achieve its goal: democratize design And make it accessible to all audiences, neophytes as experts. Far from the traditional trade fair, the international Saint-Etienne design biennial offers a broader vision of the profession of designer and its multiple applications. Managed by the Cité du Design de Saint-Étienne, it is also and above all a Privileged place for meetings and discoveries. In 2008, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Biennale hosted 85,000 visitors spread over the fifteen days of opening, including 15,000 students. Proof, if it was necessary, of the success encountered. Creative City Design UNESCO since 2010, Saint-Étienne has also been a UNESCO inclusive city since 2019.
What were the dates and times of the Saint-Etienne 2022 design biennial?
First scheduled from April to August 2021, the 12th edition of the International Biennale Design Saint-Etienne had, still because of the health situation, to be postponed for a year. So it’s From Wednesday April 6 to Sunday July 31, 2022 that the International Biennale Design Saint-Etienne took place. To live to the rhythm of design and creation from here and elsewhere, she gave you an appointment at the Cité du Design-3 rue Javelin Pagnon in Saint-Étienne.
As of Opening hours of the International Biennale Design Saint-Etiennehere they are:
- From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday and the event closed its doors at 8 p.m. on Saturday.
- Nocturne on Friday April 8 and Saturday May 14, 2022 and on the occasion of the Night of the Museums, access to exhibitions was exceptionally free from 7 p.m. on May 14, 2022.
- Opening on holidays: 1er May, May 8, Ascension Thursday and July 14.
What was the theme of the Design Biennale in 2022?
Today recognized worldwide, like the Milan Furniture Fair. The International Biennial Design Saint-Etienne has highlighted a theme full of promises: Bifurcations. A direct consequence of the historical crisis linked to the epidemic of COVID-19, which made France and its inhabitants take a real turning point, this theme was born from the widespread desire among designers of “Changing society” and “Reorienting the future”just that!
As part of this 12th International Design Biennial in Saint-Etienne, these new issues were sifted through all design professionals and those who revolve around. The goal? Encourage design to go on an adventure: what is it already doing? What more and more can do? But also to open an essential cultural debate at the heart of our techno-industrial society.
Concretely? To branch out is to react and take a step aside by experimenting with paths here and now. But it is also to explore other possible, collective, sober, respectful of life and adapted to each context. In short, this biennial was the perfect opportunity to envisage, via the profession of designer, situations of bifurcation, whether in terms of individual strategies or collective experiments. Carried by this theme, this biennial has registered in the 2030 agenda and the UN sustainable development objectives.
What was the programming of the International Biennale Design Saint-Etienne?
In 2022, the International Biennale Design Saint-Etienne presented a rich programming with objects, services and installations and more than 150 events over its duration. And if you have the possibility of finding the full program of this online event on the official website, The editorial staff has selected for you the highlights of the International Biennial Design Saint-Etienne 2022namely the 7 exhibitions thought to explore these bifurcations, on themes as different as:
- At homeimagined as a panorama of our domestic lives to live the bifurcations at home,
- Self -fictionsort of biography of the automotive object, an object that always questions,
- The world, otherwise nothingexperiment today to learn tomorrow, enough to dream, learn and reconnect,
- Unfoldingindustrial design thinks about changes in body objects,
- Singular pluralin contemporary Africes, a design of social influence which makes territories branch off,
- Inside productionthe opportunity to debate the design,
- Subtractor how to subtract objects, matter and reconsider the material needs of our daily life?
What are the prices of the International Biennial Design Saint-Etienne 2022?
The physical ticket office is accessible to the public 15 min before the opening of exhibitions, but you can only advise you to book your tickets online. Each biennial pass is valid for 1 day in each exhibition site (Cité du Design, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole, Museum of Art and Industry, Musée de la Mine, Le Corbusier site-Saint-Pierre de Firminy church) throughout the duration of the Biennale. As for the prices of the International Biennial Design Saint-Etienne, provided that they do not change by 2024, here they
- 12 euros the full price biennial pass (+1 euro if purchase at the counter)
- 10 euros the biennial pass price reduced For large families, over 65 years old, retirees, teachers (on proof or education pass), CNAS members as well as to partner social and economic committees, holders of the museum pass (City of Saint-Etienne) and people with disabilities
- 17 euros The Biennale Pass + Guided tour of 1h15 on the site of the Cité du Design and 15 euros in reduced rate
- 5 euros the guided tour for children From 8 to 11 years old
- Free For those under 26, students, job seekers, RSA beneficiaries, holders of the Senior Leisure Pass (City of Saint-Etienne), the press and ICOM card holders
There is also a City Card. A sort of feet which gives access to the international Saint-Etienne design biennial, with unlimited transport and many discounts. Particularly included in the price: access to the city of design, the Museum of Art and Industry, the Museum of La Mine, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Le Corbusier site in Firminy (free visit, 1 entrance per site). The City Card is also guided tours with city of art and history, discounts at the Biennale store and in partner restaurants and more than 15 other sites included. And find all of the offers and prices on the official website of the event: Biennale-design.com/saint-etienne/202222
- Byat Carnot station (5 min walk) or that of Châteaucreux (take the T2 tram to the terminus of design)
- By carvia the A47 from Brussels, Milan, Marseille or Lyon, join the A72, exit 14 (Zénith Saint-Étienne Métropole), via the A72 from Barcelona, Paris or Clermont-Ferrand, exit 12 (Geoffroy Guichard stadium), take boulevard Thiers and via A72 still from Puy-en-Velay, Firminy by RN88, Guichard), take boulevard Thiers
- By planefrom Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport, the Rhône Express tram line connects Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport in 30 minutes at SNCF Lyon Party station
