Quebec City, Canada, rue Saint-Jean, October 2017
Author: Yky
Wild camping
Paris, France, Bd. Sérurier, France, July 2017
Pier Paulo Pasolini
Rome, Italy, Ephemeral tribute to Pasolini by E.P. Ernest, August 2016
Reading break
Toronto, Canada, China Town, April 2015
Exploring spirituality in the urban frame
You may like it or not, you cannot escape religious monuments and the way they impose their presence in the urban frame. They contribute to the city “imageability”, as defined by Kevin Lynch (1), and play a predominant role in its identity. Their symbolic significance goes far beyond their original mission, as shown by the emotional response […]
Exploring spirituality in the urban frame
The sense of belonging, social connectedness and transcendental aspirations may coalesce in a holistic relationship between people and their built environment. Intertwining nature and spirituality may pave the way to sustainable thinking. But dealing with uncertainty and complexity requires not only a capacity to adapt but also to transform. To build successfully such transformative process, […]
Marseille harbor
Marseille, France, Harbor seen from the Pharo garden, November 2013
How resilient is radical housing?
The current pandemic sheds a new light on affordable housing and how it may strengthen urban resilience. The “stay home” injunction confronts with the political challenge to enforce moratorium on evictions and foreclosures. Adequate housing appears to be more than a standard of living with the raising awareness that it is a human right (1). But […]
How resilient is radical housing?
In the below work, radical housing is seen through the lens of an incongruity: holding legally a vacant private property for speculative reasons when illegal requisitioning could save people lives. D0: Who are these people living in a place that is not their own? Why this unbearable look? Why this deafening silence? What do they […]
We don’t need heroes
Beyond the richness of a concept with multi-faceted dimensions and the emptiness of a word used nowadays to mean anything, resilience, when applied to our daily lives, questions the balance between individual acts and collective responsibility. The below work shows the inside room of an Ellis Island dwelling. At D0, windows have been covered with wooden […]
