Sébastien Maleville
Bangkok  

Bangkok

Speaking & Mentoring

Keynotes and workshops across Asia, and hands-on mentoring with real problems on the table, something I've done since Shenzhen.

Sébastien speaking into a handheld microphone, in a grey blazer.
Fig. 1 Speaking to SME owners at DIPROM Creative Next, Bangkok, 2023

On stage

Keynotes and lectures for companies, schools and design events, and workshops where everyone leaves with pencil marks or glue on their hands. Pick a format, or ask for something made to measure.

  • 01Sustainable product designKeynote or lecture
  • 02Purposeful brandingTalk
  • 03Circular economy principlesTalk or full-day seminar
  • 04Scandinavian design valuesTalk
  • 05Design to win: design as business strategyTalk or seminar
  • 01SketchingDrawing to think and to explain, from first thumbnails to sketches a client can read. Pens, markers, paper.
  • 02Model makingFoam, card and glue. Quick models that turn an idea into something you can hold, test and break.
  • 03Sustainable product designHalf-day workshop
  • 04Purposeful brandingHalf-day workshop
  • 05Environmental footprintMeasure a product’s footprint early, while the design can still change, and act on the biggest numbers first.
  • 06AI for designWhere AI helps a design team and where it doesn’t. The principles first, then the tools.

Something else in mind?

Tell me who will be in the room and what they need to walk out with. I’ll shape a talk, a lecture series or a workshop around it, from one hour to a full day.

Describe your session

In English or French. Invite me

Prefer to listen? A full-length interview with ICauniqueself ↗

Recent stages

Conferences, seminars and workshops, newest first. Most of them in Bangkok, a few further afield.

  1. Sébastien and Watee Wichiennit on stage at TCDC, microphones in hand, under a slide reading Shaping a New Sports Brand.

    Bangkok Design Week

    Shaping a new sports brand

    A talk with Watee Wichiennit at TCDC: how design turned a product-led company into a whole brand experience.

  2. Sébastien on a stool with a microphone, the third speaker in a panel in front of the NSTDA Annual Conference backdrop.

    NSTDA Annual Conference

    A panel at the 20th edition

    At Thailand Science Park, for the conference of Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency.

  3. Sébastien speaking into a microphone beside a projected slide in a seminar room.

    Thailand Productivity Institute

    Value strategy design

    A seminar on empowering sustainability journeys through value strategy design, in the room and online.

  4. Sébastien, in a face mask, speaking into a microphone on a talk stage.

    SCG Livin’novation

    Inno Talk

    On the furniture collection we designed with Deesawat for SCG.

  5. Sébastien, microphone in hand, coaching a circle of business owners.

    DITP Mom & Kids

    Seminar, workshop, coaching

    For business owners who make products for mothers and children. Run again in 2021 and 2022.

  6. A wide view of the conference hall in Manila, with Sébastien speaking on stage under hanging light sculptures.

    International Design Conference, Manila

    Keynote and fireside chat

    In the plenary on craft, technology and social innovation.

Also on the list

  • 2023DIPROM Creative NextTwo sessions for 50 business owners at KX, Bangkok (Fig. 1)
  • 2022Tokai University, Japan“Timeless Nordic: a return to the essentials”, a lecture for the second Tokai–KMUTT online design workshop
  • 2022NIA and SCB“From Ideation to Reality”, a talk for their innovation programme
  • 2021DITP, STYLE BangkokTwo talks on the bio-circular-green economy
  • 2020Yangon Innovation Center, MyanmarA half-day seminar on design and intellectual property, in person
  • 2019OPPOA panel with the design team, in Copenhagen

Mentoring

Since 2016 I've coached industrial design and branding students at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, first as academic director and professor, now as an adjunct lecturer at its Graduate School of Management and Innovation (GMI) and its School of Architecture and Design (SoA+D).

For years, third- and fourth-year students also worked inside our studio as part of their degree, on real projects with real deadlines. Roughly 40 students in ten years, coached up close.

In the studio

I've mentored junior designers and interns in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Bangkok, and signed reference letters for former interns applying to schools such as TU Delft.

Sébastien leaning over a student's sketchbook with a pencil during a design workshop.
Fig. 2 Desk critique, KMUTT School of Architecture and Design, 2017

On the jury

Several years judging design competitions and student work.