Crossings
Science and Arts
The lab's work sits at the intersection of craniofacial research, the PRIM3D platform, and Necker's maxillofacial surgery department, and regularly extends into collaborations with artists, designers, and philosophers from the École des Arts Décoratifs-PSL and ENS-PSL, under Institut Imagine's "Vulnérabilités et Capabilités" (VULCA) chair.
Flagship project
FaceWorld
The face and body in craniofacial malformations — led by Roman Hossein Khonsari, with Charlotte Jacquemot (CNRS, ENS-PSL), Bérangère Rousselot-Pailley (Université Paris Cité), the association Les P'tits Courageux, and Tetyana Pavlychuk (surgeon, Ohmatdyt Hospital, Kyiv).
How does a child perceive their own face when born with a craniofacial malformation? FaceWorld explores self-perception in children with rare cranial and facial malformations, combining medicine, art, and psychology — a comparative study run at Hôpital Necker (France) and Ohmatdyt Hospital (Kyiv, Ukraine), where children with facial malformations now live alongside people injured in the war.
The project uses Rrose, an interactive self-portrait tool built by artist Laurent Saksik: children build an evolving self-portrait from a photo, adjusting shapes and colors to understand and reclaim their own image. Results will be shown in an exhibition at the 24B gallery.
Ongoing
Current projects
Outs[AI]der
Using AI to characterize a corpus of outsider art, as part of a health data challenge.
Archive
Past collaborations
La Torre dell’anima
An installation by Donatien Aubert, from CT scans of facial-trauma patients treated in maxillofacial surgery at AP-HP.
Nephrolithiasis
An anatomical sculpture by Dana-Fiona Armour, with the Forme et Croissance du Crâne lab.
Bloc opératoire, regards croisés
Operating-room drawings at Necker Hospital, by Christelle Téa.
Anticorps
An installation by Olga Kisseleva in the Port-Royal cloister, on the theme of Covid, with the PRIM3D platform.
Tout s’est bien passé
A surgical-theatre play, read at the Académie nationale de chirurgie.
In the theatre with my family
A film made with ERN CRANIO (2023).
Scoliose
Participation in the Fair Play exhibition (JAD, spring 2024) with the PRIM3D platform.