Max Mollon holds a PhD in design sciences and media studies (PSL, Ensad) and is a designer and researcher renowned for practising and popularising speculative design in France since 2010 throughout the Design fiction club seminar (2017-2021). Winner of the 2020 Prize for the best thesis in foresight, he has developed numerous participatory mechanisms used by public, cultural and regional institutions to anticipate ecological crises — including Prisons at 50°C (Ministry of Justice), Forêts (dés)enchantées 2100 (WWF), Agoras Prospectives (ONDA), and Désirs d'habiter (Nantes–Saint-Nazaire metropolitan area). As co-founder of the Deviations Lab (Laboratoire des déviations), he designs innovative methods to strengthen cooperation as a means of transition within diverse communities. A lecturer at Sciences Po, he has been putting his rare expertise into practice for over ten years, focusing on debating the future, collective imaginaries and ways of building solidarity in the face of ecological transformations.

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READ
• Designers could be Diplomats (June 2021) is an interview in the European research programme Speculative-edu
• 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)
• Design fiction as means for (better) debates, in Nicom@c, Soprasteria's magazine (FR)

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WATCH
• TedX ESC-Clermont (18min)
• Design fiction et action publique, à Bercy
• Design fiction et transformation publique, à DITP

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DETAILS
2022 | Co-founder of the Laboratory of Ecological Deviations – With Thibaud Griessinger
2022 | Lecturer in Design research methods @DSAA Villefontaine
2019 | PhD in Information and Communication Sciences and Design Sciences (designfordebate.fr)
2018 | Head of the Emerging Controversies workshop (Sciences Po - *) – With Stéphanie Coiffier, Orélie Desfriche-Doria, Jean-françois Lucas
2018 | Researcher and coordinator of Parisian communities dedicated to anticipation via a public seminar (Design Fiction Club) @Gaité Lyrique – With What if?, Makan Fofana
2016 | Co-editor in design research (Les Presses Pondérées) – With Emile De Visscher et al.
2014 | Co-founder of the What if? agency – With Welid Labidi & Noémie Nicolas
2014 | Agitator of public debate via Politique-fiction.fr – With Design Friction, Normal Studio
2009 | Introduced to design futures practices in MA Media design at HEAD Geneva, by Nicolas Nova, James Auger, Jimmy Loizeau

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