Julie Brugier is a product designer, currently pursuing a PhD at PSL University, in the Reflective Interaction Research group of EnsadLab. In 2012, she started working on vulnerable populations (touched by poverty, prostitution, migration) and developed an interest for on-the-ground research. All her projects are preceded by a moment of immersion in a specific environment which she documents and from which her design works are inspired. More recently, Julie has been questioning the symbolic, technical and aesthetical renewal of our daily environments in relation to the ecological crisis. Her work concentrates on one tendency of this renewal, which gives value to frugality, poverty and subsistence in design practices. Her work can be divided in several topics: object production which questions our resources and tools, public events designed as experimental moments and eventually some theoretical research.

Website: www.juliebrugier.com