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What role will the museum play in the society of the future, which is experiencing great ecological and digital change? How should the museum explore its collection to deal with the questions of the future? What relationship should it build with the public? Can there be a museum without visitors? Who will be the visitors of the future? What meaning should we give to a decorative art collection when future scenarios focus on degrowth? What new skills should museums recruit to re-investigate the meaning of collections and potentially present the objects in a different way? The transformation of spaces in such a multifaceted institution, in such a specific urban location, cannot be answered by simple questions and fixed solutions.

Together with their teachers, students put into practice observation methods to explore the spaces, the stakeholders and the audiences of the institution, establishing areas of intervention and proposing programmes and solutions for the MAD of the future.

Chateauvallon-Liberté is a national theatre, a public service mission and public cultural service. From creating the decor to hiring artists, organising rehearsals, broadcasting shows or welcoming artists in residence, Chateauvallon-Liberté gives people the opportunity every year to create new plays, tour new shows and see new artists emerge and become established, in Toulon and elsewhere.

The observation of the site, analysis of the venue and programme allocated to it, understanding of the challenges and identified needs of the sponsor (interior renovations: restaurant, collective dining room, offices and exterior renovations: pedestrian access, Place de la Fontaine, access to Baou and extra dressing rooms for the artists) are the main areas of focus for reinventing this project over the whole site. Improving or creating places of sociability, strengthening integration with nature and highlighting Chateauvallon’s capacity for sustainable development, demonstrate creativity and promote artistic emulation.

Degrees at the École Camondo cover three main areas of study: Set design, Spaces for tomorrow, New interior designers. Embracing a free subject requires students to define an area, identify an issue, find a sponsor, come up with a programme, list limitations, implement a method and develop a project, keeping all aspects under control, while reducing any difficulties, whether we are talking about furniture, objects, spaces, uses or all of the above, anticipating every detail of the materials used. All challenges and approaches, from those who seek and experiment, those who build within the existing framework and those who stage live performing arts to those who invent the services of tomorrow. These subjects are often associated with work constructing a well-founded, documented, critical and self aware rhetoric that each student had to develop in writing their dissertation. It is patient, year-long work also culminating in the production of a written document, quite often an artefact in its own right, the quality of its layout rivalling the pertinence of its contents. Work that is the crowning achievement of five years of study, the legitimate imprint left by five years of work, sharing and creation; for every student, every year, from every class.