Samuel, who works under the name sjvl, is a multidisciplinary developer, designer, maker and artist working across code, parametric design and digital fabrication.,,,,His generative pieces range from open-source furniture and 3D-printed micro-architecture to NFT series released on Tezos platforms such as Hic et Nunc, Versum and Objkt.,
He previously served as head of the emlyon makers lab and has taught prototyping in higher education at Centrale Lyon and La Martinière Diderot, as well as to volunteer learners in fablabs and hackerspaces.
In the series Weather Lamp, each lamp is generated from the buyer's location and order time, with its height set by temperature, its diameter by humidity and its inclination by wind direction and strength.For GMO, he reworked the Panton Chair, described on his site as an iconic design, to examine the ethical questions raised by objects that are dematerialized into code for design and fabrication.pod, an open-source stool made from laser-cut plywood, is released under a Creative Commons license for anyone to build.In Reef, he treats reefs as architects of ecosystems, physicalizing generative co-constructions in which every organism contributes to a shared balance.His NFT series include Cocoon and Reef, released on Hic et Nunc in 2021, and paths and strate, released on Versum in 2022.
