National cooperation

Paragraph :

The laboratory maintains relations with various institutions and laboratories: MSH-Plaine Saint-Denis, IRCAM, INA, Direction des Musées de France, Ministère de la Culture, AILF, CNAM, CNRS, DREAM (Valenciennes University), LIMSI of Orsay, INRA, etc. ....

Project CITU :

Furthermore, Paragraph has developed the project with the CITU LAM team headed by Anne-Marie Duguet of University Paris 1. It is an interdisciplinary research project on Digital Aesthetics (CITU). The Lab received the support of the Ministry of Culture, its purpose is to bring the concept of inter disciplinarity in the current development of digital arts, from the artistic and technological stand point.

National collaborations: Industrial

Paragraph maintains relations with various companies, in the public as well as in the private sector, to propose research projects for industrial purposes or to validate ideas from Paragraph, such as France Telecom R & D, SNCF, BeTomorrow, Star ... etc..

"Poles of compétitivité"

The laboratory is involved in the "Poles of compétitivité" ( a national competitiveness framework) through the Cap Digital setup with the Terra Data project concerning the global information system of the Ile de France region.

The participation in this project is both of content (reflection on actual practices, writing of scenarios) and of technological development in virtual reality / augmented reality. The unique focus of Paragraph at the crossroad of creation and research is recognized as a vehicle for innovation in the current development of research in France. In other "Poles of compétitivité" Paragraph participates in joint ventures with Thales, eight other public laboratories and seven small size companies for a period of 3 years (2006-2009)

International collaborations

Currently the teams of the laboratory have cooperations with several foreign institutions and laboratories: the Lebanese University, the Virtual University of Tunisia, The Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs (EMI) in Rabat, the EPFL (Lausanne-Switzerland), the Universidad Austral de Chile, the University of Helsinki - Linköping University-, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the Institute of Psychology at the Russian Academy of Sciences and so on.

Under this international cooperation, many leading scientists, visited or participated in events organized within the Laboratory:

Pierre Levy, Professeur à l’Université d’Ottawa (Dept. Communications), directeur de la et chaire de Recherche du Canada en Intelligence Collective. Membre de l’Académie des Sciences (Société Royale) du Canada, (du 30 mai au 5 juin 2007).

Giovanni De Paoli, Professeur, Doyen de la Faculté de l’Aménagement, Université de Montréal (25-29 mars 2007).

Douglas Hofstadter, Professeur, Université d’Indiana Etats-Unis (1– 30 juin 2007)

Loss Glazier, Professeur, Université de New York à Buffalo (1 – 30 mai 2007).

Pablo Gervás, Raquel Hervás, Jason Robinson (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Eduardo Kac (School of the art Institute of Chicago)

Friedrich Block (Brueckner-Kuehner Foundation)

Rui Torres (Fernando Pessoa University)

Giuliano Tosin (Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP)

Marcus Bastos (Pontificial Catholic University of São Paulo)

Roberto Simanowski (Brown University)

Janez Strehovec (University of Ljubljana)

Justin Katko (Brown University)

Jim Carpenter (University of Pennsylvania)

Giovanna di Rosario (Université de Genève)

Matteo Gilebbi (University of Madison)

Wilton Azevedo (Université Mackenzie, São Paulo)

Ambroise Barras (Université de Genève)

Sandy Baldwin (West Virginia University)

Laura Borràs et Joan Elies Adell (UOC)

Chris Funkhauser (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Pedro Reis (Université Fernando Pessoa, Porto)

Aya Karpinska (Brown University)

John Cayley (Brown University)

Annick Bergeron (Université du Québec à Montréal)