How can digital technology help address the humanitarian crisis we are going through? How can the skills we pass on to the students who join us every year contribute to improving the situation we are currently witnessing in Eastern Europe?
Express website creation with No Code, designing visuals to encourage donations, impactful art direction that stays in citizens' minds… The expertise we teach our students can help raise public awareness of social, environmental and economic issues.
Faced with the crisis in Ukraine, we could not stand idle: projects carried out as part of courses for our 3rd-year UX design and UI design students, an awareness conference on the situation in Ukraine — in recent weeks we have taken action so that our students become aware of what is currently at stake in Europe and the resulting migration issues.
On 11 March, our Bachelor 3 students in UI and UX design had a full day to imagine an awareness and donation campaign for Ukraine.
Here is a preview of the projects proposed by our students:
On Wednesday 23 March, we welcomed Benoît Hamon, director of Singa, an NGO dedicated to the reception and inclusion of migrants from around the world, former Minister for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Consumer Affairs, former Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research, and candidate in the 2017 presidential election, for a debate conference with students on the theme: Can tech help with inclusion in the face of migration? Alice Prévost, M1 Lead UX student, and Alex Shirlaw, M1 Digital Art Director student, facilitated the discussion.
Because prejudices and misconceptions persist, because welcoming refugees is changing in scale and invites each of us to rethink the role we will and must play, because our students carry hope and have the power to shift the lines, because they must never forget that knowing how to do things is good, but doing them with purpose is better.
To close this conference, Vincent Gaullier and Raphaël Girardot presented their documentary “Que m’est-il permis d’espérer”