A French designer and researcher who has distinguished herself for her experimental projects on textiles and their relationship with society (Hay&Husk), Venot has worked with some ENSAD students - Zoé Arnaud, Pauline Aubry, Antoine Behagel, Marianna Faleri, Séverine Luxerrois, Phi Lou-van - to identify a form of aggregation capable of fostering a renewed collective awareness of living species. The result of the research is the Kombucha bar, a mobile trolley that aims not only to promote the properties of Kombucha, a fermented beverage that is good for the body, but also to encourage the exchange of knowledge about approaches to healing that are often marginalised. Prepared through a series of meetings, debates and workshops involving numerous designers, artists and botanists, the trolley bar becomes a device for renewing the link with the ecosystem and defending the female transmission of ancestral healing practices.
Alexia Venot with the ENSAD's students Zoé Arnaud, Pauline Aubry, Antoine Behagel, Marianna Faleri, Séverine Luxerrois, Phi Lou-van. Photo Antoine Behagel
