Gregory Luddeni
Head of Innovation & Learning Experience at Besign School supports the local enterprises network of the Fab Lab.
The Be-Lab works with Besign graduate students: Brooke Hankins designed its brand identity and Devshree Sahai continues to help with web and visual design, and Florent Rigaud, Besign alumnus, is workshop manager - all since the inception of the lab.
Our Team
Laetitia Wolff
An experienced international leader with 20+ years in the US, she is a published author, design consultant and instructor in social and sustainable innovation. She supports strategic development and alliances of the Be-Lab. She works with students and partners through a collaborative and learning by doing approach to qualitative design research, via a dedicated semester-long studio and various action-research projects.
Saurabh Bedarkar
Trained in industrial design and a graduate in sustainable innovation from Besign School, Saurabh specializes in advanced fabrication techniques, including CNC milling and 3D printing. His work combines traditional and cutting-edge materials through experimental methodologies. Committed to frugal innovation and biomaterial research, he creates sustainable design solutions whilesharing his experience throughhands-on education.
Maurille Larivière
After founding his own design agency, Maurille supported the first 250 graduates design students at ENSCI-Les Ateliers in Paris. Trained as a designer himself, he co-founded STRATE Ecole de design in Paris in 1993, which he headed for 17 years. Then, in 2013, he co-founded Besign,
The Sustainable Design School, in Nice.
Sandrine Lebas
A designer from ENSCI and former Chair and Associate Professor at California College of Art, with 20+ years of experience at Philippe Starck Studio,
Cent Degrés, and LUNAR San Francisco, Sandrine has led award-winning projects
in medical, wearable, and children’s products–emphasizing sustainability, social responsibility, and entrepreneurship.
Our Team
Laetitia Wolff
founding director
She is an experienced international leader, consultant and professor in social and sustainable innovation through design .
She supports strategic development and alliances of the Be-Lab, works with students and partners through a collaborative and learning approach to design research, via a dedicated semester-long studio and action-research projects.
An experienced international leader with 20+ years in the US, she is a published author, design consultant and instructor in social and sustainable innovation. She supports strategic development and alliances of the Be-Lab. She works with students and partners through a collaborative and learning by doing approach to qualitative design research, via a dedicated semester-long studio and various action-research projects.
Saurabh Bedarkar
biomaterial research & Fab-lab manager
Saurabh Bedarkar is a sustainable designer, consultant, and educator specializing in advanced fabrication techniques including CNC milling and 3D printing. His work combines traditional and cutting-edge materials through experimental methodologies. Committed to frugal innovation, he creates innovative solutions while sharing his experience through design education.
Trained in industrial design and a graduate in sustainable innovation from Besign School, Saurabh specializes in advanced fabrication techniques, including CNC milling and 3D printing. His work combines traditional and cutting-edge materials through experimental methodologies. Committed to frugal innovation and biomaterial research, he creates sustainable design solutions while
sharing his experience through
hands-on education.
Maurille Larivière
BESIGN SCHOOL FOUNDER
After founding his own design agency, Maurille supported the first 250 graduates design students at ENSCI-Les Ateliers in Paris. Trained as a designer himself, he co-founded STRATE Ecole de design in Paris in 1993, which he headed for 17 years. Then, in 2013, he co-founded Besign,
The Sustainable Design School, in Nice.
Sandrine Lebas
BESIGN SCHOOL PEDAGOGY DIRECTOR
Sandrine Lebas
Academic Director at Besign
A designer from ENSCI and former Chair and Associate Professor at California College of Art, with 20+ years of experience at Philippe Starck Studio,
Cent Degrés, and LUNAR San Francisco, Sandrine has led award-winning projects
in medical, wearable, and children’s products–emphasizing sustainability, social responsibility, and entrepreneurship.
Florent Rigaud
Academic Director at Besign
Sandrine Lebas is a designer, Academic Director of BESIGN School, and former Chair and Associate Professor at CCA. With 20+ years of experience at Philippe Starck Studio, Cent Degrés, and LUNAR San Francisco, she has led award-winning projects in medical, wearable, and children’s products, emphasizing sustainability, social responsibility, and entrepreneurship.
Gregory Luddeni
founding director of Besign, The Sustainable Design School
Maurille LARIVIERE is a designer. After founding his own design agency, he followed the first 250 graduates design students at ENSCI - Les Ateliers in Paris. He co-founded STRATE, école de design, in Paris in 1993, which he directed for 17 years. In 2013, he co-founded BESIGN The Sustainable Design School, in Nice.
Maurille Larivière
BESIGN SCHOOL FOUNDER
Gregory Luddeni, Head of Innovation & Learning Experience at Besign School supports the local enterprises network of the Fab Lab.
We are changemakers who Research/ Regenerate/
Innovate
We are changemakers who Research / Regenerate/ Innovate.
A group of emerging, imaginative, global sustainable designers interested in seeking ways to regenerate our planet and connect to where we live and work = our territory.
Some of us are current students, alumni still connected to the school community, as well as professional designers and instructors. We work closely with pedagogy and bring the expertise of professors-practitioners affiliated with the school, experts in eco-materials, as well as the University of Nice network.