Since 2014, the Skills Academy has invited professionals to come together to explore a universal material across a range of practices and through a series of encounters that combine innovation, experimentation and eco-responsibility.
In 2025, for its seventh edition, the Foundation took an up-close look at paper, whose invention in China several centuries before the start of our current era marked a major historical turning point. Combining lightness and strength, functionality and aesthetics, communication and creativity, paper continues to play a role throughout our daily lives. Its multiplicity of formats attests to the equally diverse range of skills and cultural traditions that have come to be associated with it. At once a challenge and a solution, paper is at the heart of key issues such as recycling, resource management and environmental policy. These are just some of the questions that were addressed by participants of the Skills Academy, which was overseen by guest designer Constance Guisset, whose work is characterised by a search for balance between ergonomics, delicateness and imagination.
