Responsible Textile Sector Chair
In 2024, the textile industry in France represented 2,200 companies, 80% of which were SMEs, and employed more than 62,000 people. A significant source of pollution, the industry needs to move towards more sustainable practices. Against this backdrop, Mines Paris – PSL, the benchmark engineering school for ecological transitions, is launching the Filière Textile Responsable Research and Teaching Chair, initiated by Phu Tran Van, founder of Fonds Social B’Lao, with the ambition of bringing together industry players who share the values of environmental and societal responsibility.
The center :
The Centre de Gestion Scientifique (CGS) of Mines Paris – PSL.
Funding:
The chair is financed by the B’Lao social fund. This fund, created in France in January 2017 by Phu Tran Van, is positioned as a committed player in social responsibility that has made lifelong education one of its priorities.
Co-holders:
Colette Depeyre, Academic Director of ENAMOMA – PSL and Senior Lecturer at Dauphine – PSL & Cédric Dalmasso, Director of CGS.
The Chair
This Chair aims to consolidate and broaden scientific knowledge to support the repositioning and reindustrialization strategies of companies in the industry. All partners are committed to inventing new creative and industrial processes, in particular through digitalization and automation (Industry 4.0), which are conducive to human development and protect the natural environment.
The Chair builds on the ENAMOMA-PSL program (Engagement pour des Alternatives Mode & Matière créatives et responsables), co-created in 2016 by three of PSL University’s members:
- Mines Paris – PSL
- Dauphine – PSL
- EnsAD – PSL (l’École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs).
The challenge of the program is to bring together a diversity of disciplines and players to support the ecological, social and technological transition of the world of fashion and materials.
The program also supports the Master Mode & Matière, which trains students committed to transforming practices. Conceived as a platform for interdisciplinary experimentation experimentation, the program is a meeting place for students, teachers, researchers and professionals from the fields of design, engineering and management.
Co-holders
Colette Depeyre Academic Director of ENAMOMA – PSL and Senior Lecturer at Dauphine – PSL.
Colette Depeyre is a lecturer at Université Paris Dauphine – PSL and a member of the Dauphine Recherches en Management laboratory (UMR CNRS 7088). Her research within the MOST team focuses on the processes involved in adapting organizational capacities and the associated market dynamics, in the context of complex industrial projects and in the textile, fashion and luxury goods sectors. Her current projects focus on transformations in the textile industry and the revaluation of materials in fashion. She is academic manager of the ENAMOMA-PSL program and coordinator of the ANR IDEOMM project on the reclamation of waste materials in the fashion industry.
Cédric Dalmasso Director of CGS
Cédric Dalmasso is Director of the Scientific Management Center, Mines Paris – PSL. He is Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Agence national d’Amélioration des Conditions de Travail and an elected member of the Board of Directors of PSL University, Chairman of the Orientation Council of the Institut du Travail et du Développement Durable and a member of the Cercle de l’Innovation at the Fondation Paris Dauphine. An active researcher, he has conducted over twenty collaborative research projects and is the author of numerous articles on the link between strategy, organization and health at work.
Patrons will have access to the Chair’s work, and will be able to participate in its orientation through the governance bodies created for this purpose. In this way, they will strengthen their expertise in the Chair’s field.
News from the Chair
ENAMOMA-PSL research seminar
The seminar explores transformations in the world of fashion and materials, with a cross-disciplinary approach throughout the course. It aims to bridge from one universe to another with an approach that :
- revitalizes the issue of materials at all stages of the value chain;
- draws on research from a number of disciplines and field experience;
- and places ecoresponsibility as a stimulating starting point for rethinking creative practices, with both an environmental and a social dimension.
Two meeting formats bring together researchers and professionals, always on a Tuesday, with :
- the MATINALES, from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m.
- the PRINTANIERE, a full day of exchanges
Organized by Benjamin Cabanes (IHEIE, Mines Paris – PSL), Cédric Dalmasso (Mines Paris – PSL) and Colette Depeyre (Université Paris Dauphine / ENAMOMA-PSL), the seminar is supported by the “Responsible Textile Sector” Chair and the Dauphine Recherches en Management laboratory.