Listening Devices for the Deaf

La Cambre/ Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels (Brussels, Belgium)

Designer: Judicaël Cornu
Dimensions: Variable

Project Description

A series of three devices for listening music through bone tissue made from Corian and molded plastics. These objects allow people touched by deafness to listen music through the internal ear.

La Cambre/ Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels

The Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels of La Cambre is a school of art and design that offers a wide array of educational programs, both at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. The school is located in Brussels on the premises of the 16th century “La Cambre” Abbey, from which it gets its name.

La Cambre was founded in 1927 by the famous designer and architect Henry van de Velde and a group of avant-garde Belgian artists of the time. Since its early beginnings, art, architecture and design have been intimately linked as part of the same creative movement and process, in accordance with the Bauhaus model.

The Industrial Design Department is organized as three-year Bachelor and two-year Master programs. Each student can benefit from the richness of artistic thinking developed by the oth-er 16 departments, ranging from drawing, painting and sculpture to photography, animation, set design, ceramics, textiles, fashion, graphic design and interior design. In addition to the specialized design studio, which also includes technical and technological courses, a number of trans-disciplinary workshops, courses and seminars (both compulsory and optional) are offered in the arts field (video, performance, digital media, etc.), as well as in history, art criti -cism, philosophy, aesthetics, semiotics, literature, law, etc.

The industrial design program also offers industrial collaborations, international competitions and traineeships in the industry or design studios.

La Cambre is a member of the Brussels-Wallonia European University Pole and a partner, within the transdisciplinary platform ARTes, of the Brussels Conservatory and the INSAS (Na-tional Institute of the Performing Arts).