Nina Delevaque

Maison Volcan

After spending a lot of time discussing about the purpose of our work as designers and our wills to be invested in ou communities, we created Maison Volcan with Lou and Manu.

We started the project by imagining a workshop for children in a foster home, teaching them ways to be understood with graphics and images. The purpose of this one week action was to teach teenagers how to be creative while expressing themselves - or stand-up for who they are - by showing them that symbols and graphic elements can be easy to use and understand.

Since then, we led several workshops and learned considerably about our political engagement, pedagogy and even graphic design itself.

En Chantier

Public creative workshop

In this workshop, we proposed to teenagers in a children's shelter to create signage for their temporary home.
As they are often moving from one room to an other, a section to an other, a floor to an other, a service to an other, we realized they didn't have this special place where they can say "this place is mine, this is my own place" so we created flags with them so they can put them on their own bedroom doors. We also collectively designed flags for the public areas.

Animation by Maison Volcan
Duration 5 days
Curated by Nantes Métropole

Super Positions

Public creative workshop

Super Position is a workshop taking place in the Super Galerie - a nomadic contemporary art galerie - during the Bam! Festival in TU Nantes, the public was invited to create their own poster of their dreamt exhibition by using a "manual Photoshop". The apprentice graphic designers were using many kind of paper and fonts, a light table, a camera and their creativity. By superposing the elements, they were creating designs following the Super Galerie guideline. Throughout this manual and eclectic workshop we had the opportunity to sensibilise a large public about building a readable message and being creative while understandable.

Animation by Maison Volcan
Duration 5 days
At Festival BAM - Le Théâtre Universitaire Nantes
Curated by Le Crous Loire Atlantique

Les 3 âges

Band cover, screen printing

Les 3 Âges is a limited screen printed artwork created especially for Kraft Festival.

Spot

Creative urbanism studies

During the public festival SPOT, we asked the participants to put on paper something they would hope to see in the city of Nantes. We created a fictional architecture office where the public is the one drawing the plans. As we were collecting many drawings designed on carbon paper our exhibition was getting bigger and every participant was able to go home with the idea of someone else.
At the end we decided to design a book with these 200 ideas - it is still in process.

Animated by Maison Volcan
Duration 2 days
At Festival SPOT
Curated by SPOT & Maison Volcan