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qui dessine des méandres entre la recherche, la direction artistique et le design d’édition à travers les médias. Elle travaille avec des individus et des institutions de renommée internationale pour promouvoir des valeurs publiques et des cultures médiatiques responsables. 
        Dans le milieu culturel et périodique au Canada et aux Pays-Bas, elle collabore avec Artexte, Centre pour les droits numériques, Droog, Institut Strelka, Mediamatic, Metahaven, Penguin Random House et VPRO, un difusseur public néerlandais. Sa refonte de Hazlitt magazine pour Penguin a été primée Siteweb de l’année par les Prix du magazine canadien.
       Michèle recherche le bonheur dans la surveillance numérique et la pensée positive obligatoire dans le design et la société occidentale. Elle enseigne parfois, récemment à titre de Professeure invitée à l’École de design à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle écrit pour Back Office, C Magazine, Failed Architecture, The Gradient par le Walker Art Center et Volume par la Fondation Archis.

who circulates between research, art direction and publication design across media. She works with internationally-recognized institutions to nurture responsible public values and media cultures.
        In the cultural and publishing spheres of Canada and the Netherlands, she has collaborated with Artexte, Centre for Digital Rights, Droog, Mediamatic, Metahaven, Penguin Random House, Strelka Institute and VPRO, a Dutch public broadcaster. Her redesign of Hazlitt magazine for Penguin won Website of the Year from National Magazine Awards.
       Michèle researches happiness measurement in digital surveillance and mandatory positivity in design and Western culture. She teaches sometimes, recently as Guest Professor at the School of Design at University of Québec in Montréal. She writes for Back Office, C Magazine, Failed Architecture, The Gradient by Walker Art Centre, and Volume by Archis Foundation.

Research residency on “the happiness industry,” its vocabulary and legibility. Research invited study and dialogue around the question, What happens when happiness and well-being get tangled in powerful measurement and digital surveillance infrastructures? Design and writing for an absurdist happiness glossary,

Managing direction for an alternative school blending art, design and computation. Lively talks, workshops and collaborative publishing were its core activities. Contributors included Daniel Canty, Steph Davidson (Bloomberg.com), Jon Gacnic (Folder Studio), Jürg Lehni, Zach Lieberman, Ken Lum, Tracy Ma (Bloomberg Businessweek), Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen (LUSTlab) and Mindy Seu. TXT, A-B-Z’s international typography summer school, was organized with Garry Ing and Greg J. Smith,

Absurdly eclectic and writer-centric,

Design dialogue makes haste,

Literary furniture and other survival tools,

All the design that’s fit to publish,

Là d’où nous venons,

Tic, Talk,

American Institute of Graphic Arts, US
École de design à l’UQAM, CA
GDC Manitoba, CA
Harvard GSD, US
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, US
OCAD University, CA
Print Room, NL
Sandberg at Mediafonds, NL
SBC Gallery, CA
Typographische Gesselschaft
München, DE
University of the Arts London, UK

Tutor, Teach,

École de design à l’UQAM, CA
MICA, US
OCAD University, CA
York University, CA