Design (industrial + transportation + service + social innovation) + exploration + photo + graphic design+ video

“A designer explorer explore the world looking for inspiring ideas, ways of living and practices that could bring ecological, social, and economical solutions to satisfy the needs of our societies”

“A designer explorer is a researcher who enjoy exploring isolated places to meet people with differents ways of living. He is a prospector with the look of an ethnologist. Always keeping an eye open to catch an idea that could be adapted to our society and bring sustainable advantages. A special blend made from social, economical, technological and economical solutions.”

Each project is an adventure...

Designer explorer /di.zaj.nœr Ik’splo:.rər/ :

A designer explorer is polymorph. His curiosity leads him to different kinds of projects such as industrial design, transportation design, service design, social innovation, video, photography...

+ A designer explorer loves adventures and challenges. He also enjoys to explore and travel through projects and territories.

+Mathieu GROSCHEDesigner explorermathieugrosche@gmail.comMontreal, QC, Canada+1 438 880 1284

Dynamic, analytical and synthetical, interpersonal skills, curious, conscientious, creative, organized, team spirit, adaptability, , good oral and written communication, autonomous, detail oriented, adventurer, observer, always up for a challenge ...

Education

Exhibitions

2012 - Post-graduate diploma in Transportation Design, UQAM Design School, Montreal, QC, Canada2009 - Master of design/project, University of Strasbourg, France2007 - Bachelor in Applied Arts, University of Strasbourg, France2006 - Bachelor in Industrial Design, University of Montpellier, France2005 - International Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering, University of Dijon, France/ Transilvanian University, Brasov, Romania2002 - French high school Scientist diploma, High school Bonaparte, Autun, France

2012 - ELYKTRA : Graduation exhibition, transportation design degree, UQAM design center, Montreal, QC, Canada2010 - ISEU : + Red dot design museum, Essen, Allemagne + Biennale Internationale de Design de Saint-Etienne, France2010 - The youth and the European dentity : photo report, itinerant exhibition in Paris, Marseille, Strasbourg.., France2009 - Greenwar : + Parcours du design, Strasbourg, France + EUNIQUE, art and design fair, Karlsruhe, Germany

User centered design, ethnological approach, analysis, research, ideation, creativity, concept development, branding, study travel, sketch, social innovation, photo, video, prototyping, building user scenarios...

Urbanism, architecture, bicycle, travel, bike polo, photo, cinema, writting, adventure, outdoor sports,languages and discovering new cultures,...

Methods

French: mother tongue English : fluent Romanian : intermediary German, spanish : beginner

languages

2D : Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design,3D : Catia, Rhino 3D, NX, Video : premiere, final cutDriving licence

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Volunteer experiences

Professional Experiences Skills

Interests

2013 - Now - Co-founder of a designers collective’s RUSCH, Paris-Montreal, France-Canada2013 - Now - Technico-designer in urban decors INVADO urban settings, Montreal, QC, Canada 2014 - Artist assistant Sculptor Michael Jones McKean, Richmond, VA, USA 2013 - Designer/Project owner HopHopHop! : Instant ridesharing system France. 2012 - Consultant designer in transportation design Claude Nadeau Design, Montreal, Qc, Canada 6 months internship. 2011 - Video designer Exeko (Ashoka fellow) 3 month internship, Montréal, Qc, Canada. 2009 - Service Designer /social innovation Strategic Design Scenarios, Brussels, Belgium, 8 months internship. 2008 - Photo/Video Reporter Safar Expéditions Jeunesse, Romania et Turkey. 2007 - Manager assistant for contemporary art events Association Accélérateur de particules, Strasbourg, France,. 2007 - Multimedia Designer PICTURIAL (audiovisual production), Strasbourg, France, 3 months internship. 2006 - Industriel Designer Rossignol, montsûrs, France, 3 months internship.

2013 - Bike mechanic BQAM community bicycle workshop, Montreal, QC, Canada2012 - Dismantling the festival Futurperfect festival, Conferences festival about sustainability, Waxholm, Sweden2010 - Painter for a humanitarian mission, Painting a mural to inform the illiterates about the health centre, Cotonou, Benin, Africa2009 - Public reception in music festivals Dour Festival and Couleurs Café, Belgium2004 - Mountain bike guide for outdoor sports festival Sunfestival, Morvan, France

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Post-graduate diploma in Transportation DesignUQAM Design School, Montreal, QC, Canada

Master of design/projectUniversity of Strasbourg, FranceBachelor in Applied ArtsUniversity of Strasbourg, France

International Bachelor in Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Dijon, France/ Transilvanian University, Brasov, Romania

Bachelor in Industrial DesignUniversity of Montpellier, France

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HopHopHop!

Golo dangojibe

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Shelter

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EXPLORATIONS...

MoroccoYukon Romania

Yukon : the gold rush

Hitchhiking across Canada from East to West.11 000 km hitchhiked in 40 days.

As project holder I discovered many inspiring ideas for the project HopHopHop, an instant ridesharing service.

Immersion into a gold prospector lifestyle after having meeting him while hitchhiking.

Morocco : to meet berbers

Aouli is a ghost town. By the past it was a mining city. Now Aouli is abandoned...not totally, some brave miners still digs illegally those old and dangerous galeries to extract some lead.

Immersion into the traditional berberian lifestyle. After 15 days hitchhiking from France and 3 days hiking through the Atlas mountains. The closest village is at one day walking away.

Romania : immersion into a traditional lifestyle

After having lived one year in Romania, I went back there to shot photoreport and a docu-mentary film with the team of Safar expéditions jeunesse.

Breb : a maramures mountains village

PROJECTS...

Tânar

HopHopHop!

Golo dangojibe

Iseu

Trixi Shelter

Elyktra Zatsit

Designer consultant 6 months internship for Claude Nadeau DesignDesigner/project manager

Transportation design Research and Analysis Ideation Sketch Branding Ergonomy User validation 3D anthropometric dummy 3D modeling Packaging Mock up Prototyping Adobe Premiere Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Catia

From sketch to functionnal prototype...

ELYKTRADesign of a new type of electric urban vehicle

Montréal, Canada

ELYKTRA is a new method of urban transport thattransforms sports as rollerblading, skateboarding and cycling into short and long distance daily urban trans-portation. How? By adding an electric pushing trailer.Thanks to its pole (patented by Claude Nadeau Design) the ve-hicle is adaptable to 3 different sports positions : Facial posture (roller and ski, side posture (snowboard, skateboard), attached behind a bicycle. His adaptability is a key point of the concept because withjust one vehicle, you can motorize 3 different sports.

ELYKTRA

Propelling vehicle

My mission :Starting from the patented pole from Claude Nadeau Design, my mission was to design a propelling vehicle from sketch to a functiunal prototype.

Research and analysis

Formal studies

Branding research

Packaging research

Prototyping for validation with users

1 or 2 wheels vehicle?Test and validation with users

Validation with 3D anthropometric dummy

3D Modeling (NX et Catia)

Logo and branding

relationship between vehicle shape and logo

Scenario of the 3D model(Photoshop)

Packaging and drawings

Prototyping

Molding and sculpting

+ Thermoforming+ Painting+ Assembly

ELYKTRA, the little urban beetle chose to be electric becausehe looks ahead and also for a comfort of use (no noise, no odor,easy to load the battery at work or at university or at home).

With a 40km capacity and a speed limit at 32 km/h, ELYKTRA isa brand new kind of urban transport that joins environmentalawareness and pleasure.

From idea to entrepreneurship ...

Designer/Project leader

Research/Analysis/Observations Business model/Meeting experts Business design Service design Social Innovation & transportation Design thinking System thinking Building users scenarios Branding Video Study travel Entrepreneurship Nowspective Imagination Explorimentation Collaboration with other project leaders Communication : website, public présentation

HopHopHop!

Instant ridesharing system for short distances

France

HopHopHop is an instant ridesharing system for short distances. To attract users and generate incomes, the system use a complementary currency called comon which is an abbreviation for co-money. This currency has 5 major goals : - Reward users for using a collaborative and sustainable way of transportation - Attract users. - Bring customers to commercial partners. - Remunerate HopHopHop. - Offer a free ridesharing service to users.

HopHopHop!

This project shows exactly my method as designer explorer. After having discovered in Romania a smart and sustainable way of transportation, I developed a first concept adapted to the french users. This first concept was my final project during my master degree in design/project. Then through a hitchhiking travel across Canada and a conferences festival in Sweden about sustainability, I discovered interesting elements to im-prove this first concept. Then came the entrepreneurship process : writing business plan, meet-ing experts from a wide range of activities, funding researches, ...During this process I met Michael SCHNELL an other project leader with a similar project. We decided to create RUSCH, a designer collective to develop design projects about service design, mobility and social inno-vation. We presented our projects in various parisians events about in-novation and mobility. Without enough founding we decided to stopped our own projects but RUSCH collective grows up and still goes on...

A project like an avdenture : the story of the project

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Creation of collectiveRUSCH

Communication Strategy

This project shows exactly my method as a designer explorer...

1 Discovering the solution

This is how came to me the question : “how to adapt this collaborative and sustainable way of transportation to the french market?”

I discovered this solution in Romania. As a transportation system, some Romanians uses a mix between ridesharing and hitchhiking even for short distances without any technologies...just with a bit of trust and collaboration.

Most of the time a design project start by defining the problem but here it started by discovering a solution : a collaborative and sustainable way of transportation.

NOWSPECTIVE = Prospective of NOW

IMARGINATION = Imagination + Marginality

Crédits photo: GoogleStreetView

This is how came to me the question : “how to adapt this collaborative and sustainable way of transportation to the french market?”

I discovered this solution in Romania. As a transportation system, some Romanians uses a mix between ridesharing and hitchhiking even for short distances without any technologies...just with a bit of trust and collaboration.

2 1° concept

Connecting different technologies to match users : GPS + digital terminals in public spaces + real-time billboards

I designed this first concept as final project during my master degree in design/project.

System map

Relations between the different elements of the project.

Travelling : a space of tests and discoveries...

3Improve the solution when traveling

Hitchhiking across Canada:11 000 km in 40 days

EXPLORIMENTATION = Exploration + Experimentation

Through this trip I made important discoveries for the project such as : - startegic places - User behaviour

4Finding solutions inconferences

Conferences festival with speakers from around the world in various fields:sustainability + design + economy + architecture + anthropology + finance + ...

Improving my knowledge about complementary currencies to add them to the project HopHopHop!

Futureperfect Festival, Waxholm, Suède

Crédits photo: futureperfect

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complementary currency

+ Enourage+ Reward+ Social currency+ Free service+ Business model

Short distance rides

NEW CONCEPT1° CONCEPT

Instant

long distance rides

Improving the concept following the overdraft of new elements

System map of the business model

Business partners accepting comons

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RUSCHCreation of a designers collective’s about projects of mobility and social innovation with Michael Schnell.

Building a website to communicate projects of RUSCH collectives

Presenting Rusch projects at various parisians events : Moovin The City, La ruche, Futur en seine,...

7Communicationstrategy

Communication of RUSCH projects in several online newspapers about urbanism, prospective, social innovation,..

http://projectrusch.wix.com/rusch

Designer/Builder member of the team ZATSIT

Teamwork Architecture festival Concept Sketch Shelter construction Using recycling materials

Ephemeral Architecture...

ZATSIT

Participation to BELLASTOCK : ephemeral architectural festival

Montréal, Canada photocredit : Marc-André CARIGNAN

photocredit : Nicolas BOUSSEAU

BELLASTOCK architectural festival : 20 teams to build a village in 4 days + Day 1 : build a house for the 6 persons team + Day 2 : build the village plublics space’s + Day 3 : village open to public (visits, conferences, entertainments...) + Day 4 : dismounting the village

photocredit : Nicolas BOUSSEAU

House and Swing made by our team...

http://vimeo.com/105989020

Co-design with users...

8 months internship at Strategic Design ScenariosDesigner/Project manager ISEU

Co-design process with users Paper-prototyping for co-design sessions Social innovation Mock up Project communication materials : + powerpoint + photo + video

Project exhibition: + Red dot design museum, Germany + Biennale de design de St-étienne, France

ISEUDesign a serie of eco-energetic domestic appliances

Brussels, Belgium

ISEU is a co-design project investigating the possibilityfor households to change their behaviours in terms ofenergy consumption.The eight ISEU’s domestic appliances have been designedfor the purpose of introducing a rational use of energy with four types of electrical devices: lighting, heating, thewashing machine and the computer.

http://www.strategicdesignscenarios.net/iseu-users-practices-in-energy-using-products/

ISEU

My mission was to develop the design of those 8 products (ideation, conception, mock up) and the communication materials (photos, powerpoint, video editing). I was also in charge of designing the paper prototyping to trigger the debate during co-design sessions with users.

This light switch works like tape players buttons. Press one button, one light turns on. Press a second one, the first button jumps and the first light turn of. To turn on two lights, you need to press the buttons simultaneously.To turn on more lights, it is necessary that the user per-forms a more complicated gesture. Thanks to the extra effort required, the user understands that he uses more energy than for a single light.

Co-design session with users:Designing paper-prototyping to foster the co-design session in order to collect relevant informations from users.

Concept research after co-design sessions

Building mock up.

Testimony of users using the models

Filming users at home using the mock up.

Crédits photo: Strategic Design Scenarios

Project exhibited at :Red dot design museumEssen, Allemagne, 2010

Project exhibited at :Biennale internationale de design de Saint-Etienne, France, 2010

Users study : Cyclist posture study + travel behaviour...

School projectUQAM School of design, Montréal, QC, Canada Post-graduate diploma in Transportation Design

Ergonomy Analysis Posture studies Users study Bicycle design 3D anthropometric dummy Interface design Innovative interactive tourist guide

TRIXIDesign of a bycicle sharing service and its integrated interactive tour guide.

Montréal, Canada

TRIXI

1. Cyclist posture study

2. Design of a self-service tricycle for tourists

In a teamwork we designed an ergonomic tricycle for tourist based on cyclist posture studies.

3D model made by Sébastien Gaëtanhttp://www.sebastiengaetan.com/

3. Design interactive tourist guide integrated to tricycle sharing system

User studies of tourists and travelers to know their travel habits and how do they prepare their travels.

3D model made by Sébastien Gaëtanhttp://www.sebastiengaetan.com/

The Trixi interface has been designed for tourists who likes to wander and get lost in a new city in order to soak up its atmosphere.So this touristic guide doesn’t use a usual GPS. This one shows you where you are on the map but doesn’t tell you where to go. The interface in-cludes an interactif touristic map where you can learn about the history of the city, book an hotel or know more about a specific museum...It also includes a city sound map. It’s up to you know to choose between a quiet place and an effervescent neighborhood to wander. Enjoy the visit!

School projectUQAM School of design, Montreal, QC, Canada Post-graduate diploma in Transportation Design

Vehicle study : + Analysis of existing vehicle + Study of scientific articles Ergonomy Observation/user study 3D anthropometric dummy Activity analysis Vehicle improvment Inclusive design

Inclusive Design...

SHELTER

Study of users to find problems and improve the vehicle.

Montreal, Canada

Study of existing vehicles and scientific articles.

Due to an inappropriate price/efficiency ratio for option-al roofs of this kind of vehicles, users prefers to use an umbrella to protect themselves from the rain and the sun as an alternative solution. The activity analysis showed also that users holds the umbrella with one hand and drives the scooter with the other hand. But what about people with a disabled arm? How can they hold the om-brella and drive their vehicle at the same time with just one arm? That’s why I decided to focus on this problem and I designed SHELTER. SHELTER is a foldable roof easy to use with just one hand and offering also a better pro-tection against rain.

SHELTER

Activity analysis : user study

Studying different problems

+ Problem to get on and off the vehicle

+ Problems of indoor using : - Maneuverability - Building Degradation

Finding a panel of users for the study

Choice of the problem to solve

The user study revealed that most of users use an umbrella as rain and sun protection because it’s cheaper and more practical than an optional roof. The problem to solve came out when I met an user with a disabled arm. With just one good arm he couldn’t use the umbrella as alternative solution. This is how came the question : What would be a foldable roof easy to use with just one hand?

Concept/solution :

Roof easily foldable and unfoldable with one hand.

Inclusive design :If a user with just one good hand can use this solution, that means that a user with two hands can use it as well. This solution is therefore adapted to a wide range of users.

Collective project with :Safar expéditions jeunesse

Expedition en Romania and Turckey Immersive travel Teamwork Film : + Shooting + Interviews + Find topics Photo report Photo exhibition

Documentary film and photographic expedition...

TÂNAR

Shooting a solo photo report and a teamwork documentary film in romania and Turkey.

Romania, Turkey

TÂNAR

“Tânãr. When youth looks at Europe…from Romania“

Participation in the making of a collective documen-tary film (shootings, interview, find topics…) about “The youth and the European dentity” in Romania.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VckZD7YSRR4

+ Find topics+ Interviews+ Shooting

Expedition trip

8 weeks trip through Romania and Turkey to collect point of view of youth about the European Union.

As photographer I made a photo report all along the 8 weeks trip. This photo report has been exhibited during the many documentary projection at various places and film festivals.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35526069@N04/sets/72157622329019186/

More picture on FLICKR

Humanitarian project with the associationBourgogne Nord-Sud

Graphic design for illiterate people Adaptation to local graphiscs Building the painting materials

Humanitarian graphic design...

GOLO DANGOJIBE

Graphic communication in a field hospital

Golo Dangojibe, Benin

During a humanitarian project in Benin, my mission was to paint a mural on the outside wall of a field hospital. In this way, the illiterate peoples could understand visually the medical services provided by the hospital.

GOLO DANGOJIBE

CONCEPTS & THEORIES...

People living in marges of society uses differents thoughs, lifestyle and differents practices from the mass population. Those marginals live and thinks differently either naturally or by inventing new ways of doing, new ways of answering a need or even new ways of redefining a need. That’s why marginality is a inexhaustible source of inspiration, inventiv-ity and imagination.As long as they will be people living in marge of the soci-ety either by choice or by fatality, there will be alternatives and creatives ways of living to be explored. Those marginals ways of living are a source of exploration and precious inspi-ration that can bring new solutions and ideas for the rest of the society. Therefore imargination is the exploration and the analysis of the marginals ways of living and to try to adapt the relevant ideas coming from them to the rest of the society.

Companies, designers, politicians, all of them use the prospective to be inspired and to make a better choice now for tomorrow. But what if everything was already here? Around us, more or less far away. What if prac-tices and ideas that could answer the need of different groups of people were already existing, now!I make the assumption of now and I advocate the now-spective.The prospective looks for weak signals existing today that will grow to become a major trend tomorrow. But the nowspectice is interested by what already exist today, somewhere. It may be unknown from the mass of the population or inaccessible, somewhere in the world. The goal of the Nowspective is to collect those hidden or far away ideas or practices that, after being adapted, could bring solution to a bigger scale or to another population than the one where the idea comes from.

IMARGINATION = Imagination + Marginality

NOWSPECTIVE = Prospective of NOW

Theories developped as a designer explorer

BONUS...

Voilib

3 wheels car sharing system for 3 passengers

3D scanner

BORGES : Book design

Typographic interpretation of the short novel “The library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges.

Jorge Luis BORGES describes the library of Babel as a city with its different neighbor-hood, populations, languages, with its channels of communication and its hexagonal urbanism. To graphically interpret this short novel I choose to take city guides books as references. That’s why each pages represents a specific aspect of the library of Babel as city (inhabitants, geography, languages...) by selecting specific parts of the text and by designing corresponding graphisms.

RAUMLABOR :The fountain house furnitures

Designing and building furnitures for various events held at the Fountain House.

Workshop with the architect Markus Bader from RAUMLABOR collective’s

Montreal, Canada

INVADO : Urban decors

Design, manufacture and installation of themed sets for INVADO.

http://www.groupeinvado.com/en/home

Montreal, Canada

Urban decors

Movie set for the movie Northpole

Mathieu GROSCHE designer explorerMontreal, Qc, Canada+1 438 880 1284mathieugrosche@gmail.com