Arthur Schmitt

Technical director, Museomix MTL

Developing Museomix community in Montreal.

⇒ Securing financement from various sources, managing / working with volunteers, partnership with big institutions (MMFA, MACM), event coordination.

Innovation Designer, nod-A

I helped a little start-up grow from one (me) employee to more than 10. We used Open-innovation and rapid prototyping to help companies innovate. I coined the term ‘makestorming’ to describe that activity.

⇒ Working with big companies, workshop facilitation, managing teams, strategic business decisions.

Research Associate, D-Labs, ENSCI design school

3 different research projects in partnership with external companies, about Open Data (for La Poste), museography (for Paris’ Museum of Decorative Arts) and technology watch (for SME Plasmasoft)

⇒ Teamwork, understanding of new technologies

Research Associate, Helen Hamlyn Research Centre

Research project with Legrand about access to energy in developing countries. Involved research field trips in rural India and in off-grid communes in Wales.

⇒ User-centred research, prototyping