La Rochelle, august 2015. It’s summer time. The sun has been shining for several weeks, and a thin layer of dust covers the different professional nameplates of this notarial office. Cleaning these golden signs is part of the housekeeper’s work. […]
Paris, March 2015. Contemporary electronic spaces made us experience an economy of attention: if anyone can post notes, images, videos, comments in different public spaces, they then compete with the tens of millions of their siblings. The space they occupy […]
Ivry-sur-Seine, December 2014. In the city, on sidewalks, neon yellow cubes had appeared at the end of the fall, without explanation or instructions. Faced with this new one, the mystery of their presence is resolved: they are built in the […]
Paris, November 2014. The globalization of markets delivers the same experience from one place to another, the certainty to fulfill our habits whether we are here or there, close to home or a ten-hour flight away. Against this homogenization, different […]
Western Massachussets, May 2014 Feminism has pushed to treat domestic space as a workspace. Tasks that take place there are certainly not usually paid but they consume a significative part of waking hours, and primarily those of women. Despite multiple […]
Paris, march 2014. When one is moving out of an apartment into another accommodation, a huge amount of documents has to be accumulated and assembled in different files. Purchase contracts, loans offers, notarized acts, insurance contracts, the minutes of the […]
Tickets buying and selling have known quite a revolution with the development of online reservations. Nowadays, not only can you order one ticket for a movie or a show directly from your bedroom, but you can (and sometimes have to) […]
Museums are not very different from laboratories. A lot of things have to be controlled within their environment to make these venues fully functional. Of course, each exhibition has its specificities, regarding the kind of artworks they are dealing with, […]
La Rochelle, juillet 2013. Week after week, post after post, we continuously discover how various the ways to act with different kinds of inscription are. Whether it is with a pen and a sheet of paper, a keyboard and a […]
Public lettering, to use Petrucci‘s term, has been an essential element of the graphic ecology of cities for a very long time. Actually, they are crucial parts of the city itself, of what dwelling together in an organized, politicized, place […]