Emile De Visscher

Emile De Visscher is a French design researcher, engineer and inventor who explores the relations between technology, society and culture at a time of ecological crisis. He studied mechanical engineering and material sciences at Université de Technologie de Compiègne, took the Innovation Design Engineering master between the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London, completing a PhD in the SACRe programme in 2018.

His practice-based research develops materials, processes and objects that support repair, reuse and democratic technodiversity, shown in over fifty exhibitions. He co-invented Polyfloss, a local plastic recycling system that spins waste into wool with a cotton-candy principle and is now deployed in humanitarian settings, and since 2023 he is Junior Professor in Design for Ecological Transitions at ENS Paris-Saclay.