LYCEE TOULOUSE LAUTREC
Website: www.lautrecbordeaux.fr
The vocational high school of Arts and Crafts Toulouse-Lautrec in Bordeaux offers initial training, including 2 CAP (vocational diplomas) and 6 BAC PRO (professional baccalaureates). The Arts and Crafts training it provides are rare or unique for the Academic Region of Nouvelle Aquitaine. Its recruitment covers the entire Nouvelle Aquitaine region and neighboring regions. Its location in the city center, the attractiveness of its training programs, and its reputation make it a highly sought-after place by the entire educational community (students, parents, staff). There are three professional domains represented in the school, which train students in various arts and related crafts:
- Furniture and decoration (furniture upholsterer, decorator upholsterer)
- Visual merchandising (product staging and layout)
- Fashion (dressmaker, couture, tailor, fashion model)
- Visual communication and multimedia
- Photography
The Flou CAP (vocational diploma in sewing) is offered in both initial and continuing education. The BAC PRO Dental Prosthesis is also offered in both initial and continuing education. The school comprises 425 students, 57 teachers, and 30 other staff members. Several projects have been initiated at the Toulouse Lautrec vocational high school, particularly in the Upholstery section, focusing on exchanges of professional skills between school and companies regarding current eco-responsible concerns. Students in this section are sensitized to these concerns to become future ambassadors of eco-responsibility, aiming to save resources and reduce waste by developing the following skills:
Helping find solutions for reusing, transforming, and enhancing waste materials. Sharing complementary skills to create products.
Sharing workspaces and skills to implement eco-responsible projects.
Assisting companies in developing eco-responsible strategies, whether individual or collective.
Raising awareness and responsibility among learners to lead projects with ethical and eco-responsible values. Addressing issues related to comfort, acoustics, and shared spaces.
Developing professional skills to evolve professions and mentalities.
These projects have allowed students to develop various skills, including defining ergonomic, dimensional, and environmental standards, comparing material performance through experimentation, collecting and sorting materials, making proposals and experiments, making choices, conducting technical tests, designing elements, selecting technical choices, enhancing decor/seating/objects, producing technical documents, controlling products, evaluating costs, and staging decor/permanent or temporary seating.
Projects developed in recent years:
- Creation of “PLAY” and “SIT’IN” benches for the living and circulation spaces of the school, including the CDI area.
- Collection of fabric and haberdashery samples through partnerships with local businesses such as “l’Insolite” interior decorators, “Atelier 161” decorator upholsterers, “Atelier Godrie” decorator upholsterers, technical workshops at the Hotel du Palais in Biarritz, and “Mondial Tissus” in Begles.
- Collaboration with Boesner company for waste sorting and reuse awareness, creating seating arrangements and a “green showcase” using waste materials from the Lycée Chierici serigraphy workshops, textiles and materials from Lycée Toulouse Lautrec, and waste from Boesner company.
- Partnership with Darwin Woodstock company to develop an eco-responsible co-working space, involving the upholstery section of Lycée Toulouse Lautrec in the creation of seating cushions made from frequent-use military tarpaulins, researching sound insulation solutions using military textiles, and creating graphic proposals, mood boards, research boards, brainstorming sessions, material tests, experiments, and prototypes.
- Collaboration with IKEA company, where students in the upholstery section worked on the rehabilitation of donated IKEA fabrics and seats to promote virtuous circularity through the creation of a living space, various seating arrangements, lighting fixtures, rugs, cushions, throws, poufs, and stools.
The teachers involved in ARTFORWARD projects are:
Mrs. Myriam Darrigues: Applied Art Teacher
Responsibilities include graphic proposals, mood boards, research boards, brainstorming sessions, material tests, experiments, and prototype development.
Mrs. Nathalie Suc, Mrs. Marie Alice Guercy, and Mrs. Nadia Lescouzeres: Workshop Teachers
Responsible for the realization and design of learning modules, as well as the design of technical drawings and documents.