Founded in 1927 by architect and designer Henry van de Velde, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre (ENSAV) is preparing to celebrate its centenary. In the lead-up to this major milestone, several exhibitions are being organized to highlight the school’s graduates and celebrate La Cambre’s artistic heritage. Among them, the exhibition Trans-formations offers an immersion into the worlds of former students from the industrial design, textile design, interior architecture, accessories, and fashion departments. This initiative is the result of a co-production between La Cambre, Les Amis de La Cambre, MAD Brussels, and the CID – Centre for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu.

A fundamental concept of La Cambre’s teaching philosophy, transversality is the guiding thread of the exhibition. Faced with an increasingly complex world, designers move beyond disciplinary boundaries, combining craftsmanship and science, technology and art, marketing and artificial intelligence to enrich their creative processes.

Around fifteen projects illustrate this bold approach. Here, astrophysics enters into dialogue with watchmaking, architecture intertwines with corsetry, and artificial intelligence becomes a creative partner. La Cambre thus appears not only as a breeding ground for talent, but also as a space for reflection, experimentation, and engagement. An exhibition that questions and redefines the contours of tomorrow’s design.

Within this context, Maak & Transmettre presented two seasonal curtains created in 2024 with a group of women in literacy programs, as part of the project Le tapis comme langage, developed for the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles. The studio also presented Anderkids, a game resulting from a series of workshops held with children from the Anderlecht neighborhood in 2023–2024, co-created with Bitoño Atelier. These projects highlight a design practice rooted in collectivity, transmission, and social engagement, where textiles and objects become tools for dialogue and expression.