Jean-Sébastien Poncet has been trained as product designer. He’s been working since 2010 in Saint-Etienne. His projects ought to achieve  an economy of means and simplicity of expression in a relational kind of design.  Points of convergences between environmental fluxus, situations & sense, his design express his deep interest for metabolisation function of objects on spaces.  He strove throughout to interrogate relationship between inhabitants. Defending design as an holistic approach, he consideres equaly human & non-human as inhabitants. From how they can share the same place result an arrangement. His practice consist in designing shapes for such arrangements.

Marked by his agricultural background, he recently started a research project on urban soils. He oughts to find new processus of soil remediation largely inspired by agroecologic solutions in context of shrinking cities. He works to do so with the support of Cité du design & EVS Laboratory.

We can find his work  in many diferent context such as domestic space through contemporary edition & one off productions (ESE édition sous étiquette, Galerie Georges Vernay-Caron) , public space (Etablissement publique d’aménagement de la ville de Saint-Etienne, Grand Lyon, Conseil Général de la Loire) or non profit organizations ( culture & coopération, Lahso,…) on  missions like process & management design, space design, products & funiture design.