Raphaële Bidault-Waddington

Raphaële Bidault-Waddington
Born	1971 (1971)
Nationality	French
Known for	Art-based research

Raphaële Bidault-Waddington is an artist-researcher and writer based in Paris, France, who frequently collaborates with universities, companies and city authorities around the world.

Artistic practice

Bidault-Waddington operates from three artistic laboratories (LIID ®, PIIMS ® and Raffinerie Poétique ®) to pursue her research on urban development, immaterial economy, images and knowledge. These laboratories' output includes exhibitions, workshops, conferences, artist talks and publications. Her work is often financed by structures outside the art world such as a corporation who aims to benefit from the knowledge production mechanisms surrounding art as a force of creation and renewal.^[1] In this instance, the artist's laboratory acts as service enterprise for which she develops particular research tools such as the aesthetic audit, an experimental audit method she applies to both corporations and cities.^[2] The findings of her research can take the form of texts, conceptual diagrams,^[3] image compositions or site-specific installations. In the spring of 2008, Bidault-Waddington ran for mayor of the 3rd arrondissement in Paris (Le Marais) for the Democratic Movement. She was defeated by Pierre Aidenbaum from the Socialist Party.^[4] Bidault-Waddington is a member of the New Club of Paris.

Idea Engineering Laboratory (LIID ®)

LIID ® was founded in the year 2000 by Raphaële Bidault-Waddington. An extensive study on the future of Christiania mapped out the path LIID ® would later continue on. Its most notable project to this day is Paris Galaxies, an ongoing future research about the making of the Greater Paris by 2030. Paris Galaxies is attached to the Pantheon-Sorbonne University's ACTE Institute and was awarded the Paris 2030 research grant (City of Paris) in 2012 and again in 2014. Other notable partners of LIID ® are or have been the SciencesPo School in Paris, Architecture Faculty of Republica University in Montevideo, Aalto University in Helsinki, Institute for the Future in Palo Alto California, the Center for Molecular Medicine in Stockholm and Tongji University in Shanghai.

Publishing

Between 2009 and 2011, Bidault-Waddington regularly contributed to Tale(s) Magazine where she was appointed editor-in-chief of the Vision section dedicated to art, architecture, ideas and literature.

Exhibitions

Cities Methodologies, UCL Urban Laboratory at the Slade Research Center, London, 2013
Paris Galaxies, a vision for the Greater Paris", Paris College of Art, 2012
Mental Matter, Espace d'En Bas, Paris, 2011
The Incidental Person (after John Latham), curated by Antony Hudek, apexart, New York, 2010
My Small Enterprise, Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, 2003

Bibliography

Bidault-Waddington, R. (2013). Les mots du ciel. In Espace(s) Numéro 9, 195–198.
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2012). Chaoïsme. In Peclers Future Trend FUTUR(S) 12, 15–29, 38–47, 56–64.
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2012). Paris Galaxy Inc.: A Conceptual Model and Holistic Strategy Toward Envisioning Urban Development. In Parsons Journal for Information Mapping Volume IV, Issue 1. Retrieved 16 May 2014, from http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2012/01/
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2011). Innovation: le rôle de l'art dans les territoires. Retrieved 8 May 2014, from www.metropolitiques.eu
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2009). Expo Shanghai 2010: quelques idées pour sortir le Pavillon Français du creux. Retrieved 8 May 2014, from www.lemonde.fr
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2007): Se réinventer et se projeter dans l'avenir grâce à l'art. In Musso, P., Ponthou, L., Seuillet, E. (Ed.): Fabriquer le futur 2, l'imaginaire au service de l'innovation (pp. 271–273). Pearson, France.
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2006): An experimental aesthetic audit of a city within a city: the case of Christiania. In: Carrillo, Francisco Javier (Ed.): Knowledge Cities: Approaches, Experiences, and Perspectives (pp. 177–187). Burlington, MA: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann.
Bidault-Waddington, R. (2005): Speculation sur Valeur-Image, hypothèse de travail (conceptual diagrams). In Marges, Issue 5 (pp. 59–65). Presses Universitaires, Vincennes.

References

↑ 1. Bidault-Waddington, R. (2000). L'intelligence esthétique au service de l'entreprise. Les Echos, Journal quotidien économique et financière, 25 April 2000, 72.
↑ 2. Bidault-Waddington, R. (2006): An experimental aesthetic audit of a city within a city: the case of Christiania. In: Carrillo, Francisco Javier (Ed.): Knowledge Cities: Approaches, Experiences, and Perspectives (pp. 177–187).
↑ 3. 3. Bidault-Waddington, R. (2013). Matière Grise (series of conceptual diagrams). Dorade Magazine No. 5, 2013, 258–265.
↑ 4. http://www.leparisien.fr/resultats/elections-municipales-2008-paris-75003.php. Retrieved 15 May 2014.