Sylvain Cottong

Current

Founder & Partner at integratedPlace

Past

Owner at mediaarchitect.com
Assistant producer at Film Production

Education

Université catholique de Louvain

Connections

120 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

My Company

Sylvain Cottong’s Summary

I'm a typical knowledge worker and Internet evangelist (based in Luxembourg/Europe) since the Internet's early years. As an economist and interdisciplinarist, I immediately had a vision of how the Internet and the information society would change the way we live and work. So I decided to start my own consultancy in 1997. I now have almost 10 years of experience in major Internet, Intranet, Extranet, e-business, e-goverment, e-democracy, online communication, knowledge management and information technology projects as well as in general business consulting & development.

Having always been user-centerd-design driven in what I did, I then broke the glass of computer screens and started to apply the same state of mind to other areas. In other words, applying design thinking for problem solving in a more general way, from business problems to public sector services and architectural projects.

As a result of this process, I founded integratePlace, a design consultancy based in Luxembourg/Europe (www.integratedplace.com) back in January 2006 with my partner Georges Zigrand, who then came back from an 8 year's professional experience in London where he has worked as a senior industrial designer with several renowned design agencies.

With our very complimentary backgrounds we are able to offer a wide range of services in different design & business areas, by using design as a strategic tool for innovation and transformation.

I try to network and learn at a series of conferences per year in different but related fields: IASummit, EuroIA, Idea conference, EPIC, European service design conference, GEL conference, LIFT conference...and whatever interesting things there might be out there and worth discovering.

Our connected & multiple challenges facing world asks for sustainable & human centered solutions in so many different areas of action. I prefer to be a creative and responsible architect for that world rather than limiting myself to being a critic of it.

Sylvain Cottong’s Specialties:

business analysis, design management & strategy, information architecture, (user) experience design, service design, design research & ethnography

Sylvain Cottong’s Experience

Founder & Partner

integratedPlace

(Architecture & Planning industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

We are a design consultancy active in the following areas :

- innovation & transformation design
- service design
- (user) experience design
- digital design
- environmental design
- total design strategy
- ethnography & design research
Owner

mediaarchitect.com

(Internet industry)

January 1997 — December 2007 (11 years)

- Freelance consulting in internet strategy & business communication
- Advisor to the Luxembourg governement for Internet, eGovernement and Information Society related policies
Assistant producer

Film Production

(Design industry)

January 1994 — December 1996 (3 years)

Freelance asssitant producer for 3 different independant film production companies in Luxembourg & Paris.