Credits

Research, Concept, Design and Implementation: Valérie Yobé RGD, Catherine Nadon

Invited Designers: Laurent Pinabel (Montreal), Eddy Terki (Paris) Collaborators: Daniel Leblanc, Heidi Paulin, Joël Paquette and 22 Grade 5 students

English Translation: Lise Michaud

Arrêtons de tourner en rond or ‘Let’s stop going around in circles’ is a design residency workshop and exhibition by École multidisciplinaire de l’image (ÉMI)/UQO, that integrates social design with art practice in elementary schools. It offers teachers, student graphic designers and visitors an opportunity to participate in real projects that are socially and culturally innovative. The workshop served as a platform for free expression allowing genuine social, political and environmental dialogue about a tornado that destroyed the Outaouais region in September 2018. The photographs, texts, quotes, drawings and experimentations documented from the workshops were exhibited at L’Imagier, an exhibition centre in Gatineau, in September 2019. The project was widely captured by the media, empowering the community, the children, the teachers and the schools involved in the project.