Christophe Guberan

Christophe Guberan is an indus­trial designer based in Switzer­land, trained at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne after an appren­tice­ship in archi­tec­ture.

Connecting industry, acad­emia and research, Christophe’s prac­tice focuses on the creative process as a cata­lyst for inno­va­tion. It led him to rethink the future of produc­tion processes and to explore tech­nology and mate­rials, gener­ating new aesthetics and possi­bil­i­ties in the field of product design. As a result, his studio had the oppor­tu­nity to work on diverse chal­lenges in collab­o­ra­tion with different leading compa­nies such as Alessi, Steel­case, USM, Cartier and Google.

He currently teaches product design at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nology (MIT) and ECAL. His work has been presented at various renowned insti­tu­tions: Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Design Miami, Salone del Mobile Milano and Tokyo Design Week. He received the Hublot Design Prize in 2017 and was granted with a Swiss Design Award in 2016 and 2018. Since 2014, he has fruit­fully collab­o­rated with the MIT Self-Assembly Lab and other fellow designers.