Profile: Mathieu Lehanneur

Mathieu Lehanneur graduated from l'ENSCI-Les Ateliers (2001). His early work focused on the design of medical objects aimed to improve patient compliance to medications. Upon receiving the ANVAR Scholarship in 2001, Lehanneur founded his own design agency, which specializes in exhibition and industrial design.

In 2004, Mathieu began to serve as director of Design and research of the ESADE / Cité du Design St Etienne. In 2006, he received the Carte Blanche of VIA and the Grand Prix de la Création of the City of Paris.

Lehanneur's designs appear in the permanent collections of FRAC Ile-de-France, MoMA New York City and MoMA San Francisco.

Profile: David Edwards

David Edwards is a scientist and writer and founder of Le Laboratoire. He also retains a faculty position at Harvard University, where he teaches idea development in the arts and sciences.

The inventor of new ways for treating diseases by aerosols, David is the scientific founder of the for-profit company Pulmatrix and the international nonprofit Medicine in Need (MEND).  At Le Laboratoire he invented and launched commercially Le Whif, the first product in the new field of aerosol cuisine, which he is exploring with French chef Thierry Marx.  David's writing includes the founding books of Le Laboratoire, including Niche (Ecole de Beaux Arts 2007), Whiff (Ecole de Beaux Arts 2008) and Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (Harvard Press 2008).

In 2008, David Edwards was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture; in the same year he was elected to the French National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the American National Academy of Engineering since 2001.