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Crafts

As soon as we are talking about work, we usually associate writing practices to hierarchy, and more generally to prescriptions and their circulation. As if there were two distinct worlds: that of official, regulatory, formal texts and that of gestures, […]

Posted: December 20th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Écologies, Matières

Life cycles

One purchase, one small piece of paper. In this world, each deal is not simply the exchange of goods for an amount of money : it also ends with the printing of a sale receipt. Their destiny is multiple. Some are […]

Posted: December 16th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Matières

The note

When I leave home to go to the corner or across the world, I always leave a note. On a post-it or on a large sheet. Next to nothing, just in case something happens to me. Not to leave without […]

Posted: December 13th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Instruments, Marquages

Healthy Mobility

We have often written about it here, street signs are fascinating objects for whom is interested in the scriptural shaping of the world. Essential supports of the demand for mobility that characterizes our urban settings, they take a part in […]

Posted: December 9th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Circulations, Écologies

Impulse

We have known each other for such a long time. We have gone through a large part of the 1980s, sharing several experiences when we were young. Then, we went on separate ways during the 1990s, before getting back in […]

Posted: December 6th, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Activités, Instruments

The neon sign

You came to visit the new museum of contemporary art, the architect designed a building that looks like a stack of cubes in equilibrium. It’s beautiful. You enter, you take a ticket and begin the visit. Down to the first […]

Posted: December 1st, 2010 ˑ No Comments
Filled under: Passages, Surprise