Marie Doucet is a French product and environment designer based in Prague.
Having graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2005 in Design Products, since September 2012 she has been an Associate Lecturer at Prague City University and the Czech Technical University.
Marie also works as an independent consultant for architecture studios and manufacturers. She combines projects for the industry with personal research at the boundary between art and design.
Education
PhD, Visual Communication, Faculty of Art and Design UJEP, Ústí nad Labem
MA, Royal College of Art, London
Professional Activities:
2012 - 2023 - Prague City University
2006 - 2023 - Freelance designer
2012 - 2023 - Fakulta architektury ČVUT, Prague, assistant and lector in the Design Studio, The Fundamentals of Design
2011 - 2012 - FAM Architekti, Prague
2008 - 2011 - AI - Design/Eva Jiřičná, Prague
2006 - 2007 - Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris
2006 - Barré et Associés, Lyon, France - product design
2004 - S.T. Dupont, Paris, France - design of a briefcase for businessmen
2002 - PSA Peugeot, La Garenne Colombes, France - colour and trim, trend boards and pattern design
Projects, exhibitions and workshops:
- June - September 2021 - group exhibition "Terapie Města", https://www.festivalm3.cz/
- May 2020 - VALS lecture (online). Recording here: https://vals.praguecollege.cz/events/marie-doucet
- 2018 - 2020 - co-director of research project at FEL ČVUT (Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction, project led by Zdeňek Míkovec, Jan Balata and Ivo Malý). Development of the application CityPlan - navigation for people with reduced mobility using crowd collected data. Grant TAČR TH03010447.
- March, December - 2018 - workshop “Paper Made”: design and realisation of mobile paper objects, sponsored by SPaper (Colorplan)
- 2018 - workshop at FUD UJEP, "Introduction to service design: Collaboration "
- 2017 - 2019 - cooperation with Esté architects - installation of kinetical paper objects in the "Loving Hut" restaurant, the biggest international chain of vegan restaurants
- 2015 - 2016 - cooperation with Jain&Kriz - product design and development of household accessories
- December 2015 - workshop ”Design Thinking” fort Deloitte (cooperation with Ryan Cole and Tomáš Hrivnák).
- 2012-2021 - participation at the Designblok Festival (7x) - presentation FA ČVUT, Design Studio - curator, design of the stand, coordination
- 2005 - "Like Nowhere Else", degree show RCA, London, "A collection of origami ", inspired objects with a strong narrative underpinning
Awards:
- 2015 - 3rd place, competition of exhibition proposlas, Národní muzeum, Národní památník na Vítkově, “Obraz husitství”, Prague
- 2011 - Grand Prix 2011, Czech National Architecture Awards, Honorable mention in the interior category, Café BBraun, Prague (collaborator, AI – DESIGN)
- 2004 - Pergo Innovative flooring competition, 1st prize, 2004
- 2004 - Qatar Logo competition, 3rd prize, 2004, Logos for the Costume Museum and Museum of Islamic Arts
- 2003 - Comité Colbert, Galeries Lafayette Maison, Paris, Group exhibition
- 2003 - Jeunes Espoirs de la Création Comité Colbert, Briefcase for S.T. Dupont Paris
