La Défense
The below work questions the way rurality could become integrated into urbanity, enabling to rebalance the exclusions derived from a “selective green-washing” urbanism. At D0,… Read More »La Défense
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Improving urban resilience through rurality
The past decades gave birth to an urban way of life dominated by uncertainty and complexity. Those who do not have the means to adapt… Read More »Improving urban resilience through rurality
Orders and disorders of urban resilience.
What is the meaning of urban morphologies and how resilient are they? What do cities and modern art have in common? How relevant is the… Read More »Orders and disorders of urban resilience.
Orders and disorders of urban resilience.
Investigating the living narratives of Abraxa spaces, D0 outlines the seemingly paradoxical composition between a utilitarian dimension of urbanity and its dystopian environment. On one… Read More »Orders and disorders of urban resilience.
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… Read More »Exploring spirituality in the urban frame.
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… Read More »Exploring spirituality in the urban frame.
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… Read More »How resilient is radical housing?
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… Read More »How resilient is radical housing?
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… Read More »We don’t need heroes
We don’t need heroes
Were immigrants arriving in Ellis Island resilient? They survived pogroms, misery or starvation. They had to pass through dreadful sanitary checks, could be quarantined and… Read More »We don’t need heroes