Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
Nelly Ben Hayoun | |
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| File:Nelly Ben Hayoun Speaking at NASA Ames Research Center.jpg | |
| Born | Valence, Drôme, France |
| Occupation | Designer of Experiences, Director |
| Nationality | French |
| Website | |
| http://nellyben.com/ | |
Nelly Ben Hayoun has been called the Willy Wonka of design and science. Born in Valence, Drôme, France, Ben Hayoun now resides in London, United Kingdom. An award-winning director and experience designer, she works with leading scientists and engineers to devise subversive events and experiences.[1] Ben Hayoun is also an exhibitor and keynote speaker who has worked with leading museums and design centres across the world. Her work is known for bringing "chaos, subversion and disorder into the design and scientific world". Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio
Ben Hayoun collaborated with Beck, Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, Maywa Denki, Bruce Sterling and Penguin Café in a musical collaboration that took music into space. Blasted from a Japanese launch pad in August 2013 and her most ambitious project to date; she assembled the International Space Orchestra - the world first orchestra of space scientists from NASA Ames Research Center, Singularity University, International Space University and the SETI Institute.
In 2013, Icon Magazine nominated Ben Hayoun as one of the 50 international designers “shaping the future”.[2]
Background
Ben Hayoun is a visiting professor at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (Unknown Fields Division), a lecturer and researcher at Central Saint Martins [3] and the Royal College of Art. Ben Hayoun is a contributing writer at Domus[4] and Design Indaba[5] and guest writer at We Make Money Not Art,[6] Blueprint [7] and Bruce Sterling’s blog "Beyond the Beyond" on Wired.
Ben Hayoun had an eclectic education, initially trained in painting then Textile Design at Olivier de Serres National College of Art and Design in Paris and then graduated from Design Interactions (MA) at the Royal College of Art. She is currently a a researcher (PhD Candidate) in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.[8]
Designer of Experiences at SETI Institute
Ben Hayoun was appointed Designer of Experiences at the SETI Institute under the supervision of David Morrison, Jill Tarter, Karen Randall, Franck Marchis, Adrian Brown and Janice Bishop in May 2013.[9] Her work at SETI focuses on extending outreach activities and design in terms of scope, scale, and methods of engagement towards architecture, installations, environments, social system, performances, experiences and narratives, as events.
Extreme Fieldwork
Ben Hayoun speaks about the value of ‘extreme’ fieldwork which she considers an essential part of designer training. For Ben Hayoun, designing experiences implies tangibility, hence fieldwork, and working collaboratively with experts [10]. Ben Hayoun’s design practice brought her investigation to the empty lands of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the Large Hadron Collider, CERN situated 100m below ground.[11] She has also collided atoms at SLAC, trapped herself in a Soyuz rocket capsule in Baikonur Cosmodrome[12], and experienced a sonic Booum in the neutrino Observatory Super Kamiokande[13] in Japan.
About her practice she said: "My working method is to go in situ in scientists’ research centres and design events that radically change and adapt their attitudes to their research to a non-scientific audience’s creative needs. Design should be embedded in a physical experience, it should be something you remember like seeing a painting and remembering the tone of it."[14]
Director of the International Space Orchestra (ISO)
Alongside her role as Designer of Experiences at the SETI Institute, Ben Hayoun is directing the International Space Orchestra at NASA Ames Research Center. The International Space Orchestra is a project she created and assembled over the summer of 2012, with a team of space scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Life), Singularity University, and the International Space University.[15][16]
In January 2013, the International Space Orchestra feature film, directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun, had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival where it was acclaimed by the critic as a masterpiece (Independent Cinema Office, ICO), a real achievement (DOMUS), as thrilling as watching a rocket launch and Spine Tingling (The Guardian).
Launch in Space
Ben Hayoun's work Ground Control: An Opera in Space, performance recordings by the International Space Orchestra was launched in space on 4 August 2013.
On 4 August 2013, two ArduSat (Arduino based Nanosatellite run by the company Nanosatisfi) carrying the ISO recordings of Ground Control: An Opera in Space were launched aboard the H-IIB Launch Vehicle, HTV-4 from Yoshinobu Launch Complex at the Tanegashima Space Centre. A video of the launch is available for public access online.[17]
The recordings of Ground Control: An Opera in Space was recorded at Skywalker Ranch, George Lucas' studio, where Star Wars was developed.[18]
Awards and Fellowships
- 2014-2015 Awarded Design Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany [19]
- 2013-Ongoing Appointed Designer of Experiences at SETI Institute, USA, CA
- 2011 Design Indaba Young Designers Award, Cape Town, South Africa[20]
- 2010 Winner - Science in Society Award by STFC (Science and Society Facility Council)- with the project "Super K Sonic BOOOOum", UK (Watch video about the project here)
- 2010 Winner - Public Engagement Grant Scheme by IOP (Institute Of Physics)- with the project "Super K Sonic BOOOOum", UK and Ireland (Watch video about the project here)
- 2010 Winner OUTPUT Grand Prix, International Award, with the project The Physics of the Impossible
- 2010 Finalist - European Creative Innovation Award
- 2010 Design fellow at Queen Mary University, Physics Department, London, UK
- 2009 Finalist - Helen Hamlyn Design Award, UK
Exhibitions
- 2013 Design and Violence, MOMA, NYC, USA
- 2013 The International Space Orchestra at the UCCA, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China
- 2013 The International Space Orchestra film and Disaster Playground project at the Victoria and Albert Museum V&A, London, UK
- 2013 The International Space Orchestra, Performance at the Davies Symphony Hall with singer Beck, San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2013 The International Space Orchestra exhibition in Z33, House for Contemporary Arts, Hasselt, Belgium
- 2013 The International Space Orchestra, Feature Film, 57mins, World Premiere at IFFR, International Film Festival Rotterdam
- 2012 Designer in Residency at La Gaîté Lyrique as part of the Technology of the Everyday's programme, Paris
- 2012 The International Space Orchestra, ZERO1 Biennial, The Arts and Technology Center, San José, California, USA
- 2012 Live Performance, The International Space Orchestra in front of World Largest 80X120 foot Windtunnel, NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA , co-produced with XL Recordings and Penguin Café Ltd
- 2011 What if, National Museum of China, First Beijing Internationale Design Triennial, China
- 2011 Glitch Fiction, Paris first Design Week, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France
- 2011 Forwards to Mars, British Council, London, UK
- 2011 Micronations Revolution, a show directed, curated, written & co-produced by Nelly Ben Hayoun for Shunt, London, UK
- 2010 Prédiction, International Design Biennial 2010 of St Stienne, France
- 2010 What if.., Welcome Trust, London, UK
- 2010 Super K Sonic BOOOOum 2 Gold, a project directed, designed and curated by Nelly Ben Hayoun, Manchester Science Festival, UK
- 2010 The Soyuz Chair, Cube Gallery and Festival Manchester, UK
- 2010 Interventions, Exhibition of 5 design collaborations with 5 social scientists, NewCastle University, Scotland
- 2009 Super K Sonic Boooum, SHUNT, London, UK
- 2009 What if? Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
- 2006 Gooood Food International Design Biennial, St-Etienne, France
- 2006 Cosmetiqu’a la coque at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Lectures, Talks and Speeches
Nelly Ben Hayoun is renowned for her energetic and motivational keynotes worldwide on design and teaching design, experience design and space public outreach.
- 2013 13th CII-NID Design Summit 2013; New Delhi, India. Endorsed by India Design Council
- 2013 64th International Astronautical Congress, Space Culture: Innovative Approaches for Public Engagement in Space, Beijing, China
- 2013 4th International Space Arts Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center Park, Singularity University
- 2013 Designer of Experiences, SETI Institute, CA, USA (Watch video here)
- 2013 International Space University, Strasbourg, France
- 2013 Here London, Its Nice That, London, UK
- 2013 Design Indaba - Cape Town – South Africa
- 2012 Design Experiences, NASA Ames Research Center, CA, USA
- 2012 International Space Orchestra Talk Series,chaired and curated by Ben Hayoun. Speakers: NASA Chief of Science Jacob Cohen, SETI Institute Head of Research Gerry Harp, NASA Kepler Mission Manager Roger Hunter, NASA Flight Director Rusty Hunt. ZERO1 Biennial, San José, California.
- 2012 Musée des Arts et Metiers in partnership with La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
- 2012 International Symposium on Art Research, Paris, France
- 2012 Tama University, Tokyo, Japan
- 2011 Symposium Beijing First Design Triennial, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- 2011 Unknown Fields Division, Talk in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine
- 2011 Annual International Conference-London, Royal Geographical Society
- 2011 Sofia Design Week Festival, Bulgaria
- 2011 Festarch Festival, International Architecture Festival, Perugia, Italy
- 2011 Masterclass on Teaching Design at Design Indaba, South Africa [21]
- 2010 PechaKucha Event, Tel Aviv, Israel
External links
Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio Official Website
International Space Orchestra Official Website
THE DA-ZED GUIDE TO OUTER SPACE by Christine Jun, August 15, 2013. Dazed
References
- ^ ["http://www.seti.org/designer-of-experiences/nelly-ben-hayoun"]
- ^ ["http://www.iconeye.com/news/news/122-future-50 Icon 122: Future 50"]
- ^ ["http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/csm/2013/08/13/an-opera-in-space-recordings-launched-into-space/"]
- ^ ["http://www.domusweb.it/en/search.html?type=tag&key=Nelly+Ben+Hayoun"]
- ^ ["http://www.designindaba.com/news/blog-festarch-festival-real-human-comedy"]
- ^ ["http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2011/09/the-power-of-making.php#.UgyV-FNQ0zQ"]
- ^ ["http://www.blueprintmagazine.co.uk/index.php/everything-else/best-of-the-student-shows-2011/#panel"]
- ^ ["http://www.nellyben.com/about/contact-cv/"] Nelly Ben Hayoun Studio
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- ^ ["http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/12/the-other-volcano.php#.UhAralNQ0zQ"]
- ^ ["http://www.nellyben.com/projects/dark-energy-in-the-kitchen-sink/"]
- ^ ["http://www.domusweb.it/en/architecture/2011/08/10/unknown-fields-division-part-iii-baikonur-cosmodrome.html"]
- ^ ["http://www.superksonic.com/the-project"]
- ^ Ough Interview
- ^ "GЯOUИD COИTЯOL", International Space Orchestra Official Website
- ^ "Projects by NELLY BEN HAYOUN STUDIO", NELLY BEN STUDIO Official Website
- ^ "Nelly Ben Hayoun’s artwork launched into space", "Wired", by Bruce Sterling, August 7, 2013
- ^ "http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/news/international-space-orchestra-has-lifted", SETI, August 05, 2013
- ^ ["http://www.akademie-solitude.de/en/fellowship/residency/"]
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- ^ ["http://www.designindaba.com/profiles/nelly-ben-hayoun"]